1 were nothing if not censorious, and would at once be fired with virtuous indignation when they heard of a case of vice or seduction.
2 One longed for movement in spite of everything, and I plunged all at once into dark, underground, loathsome vice of the pettiest kind.
3 I was overwhelmed with depression, too; I had an hysterical craving for incongruity and for contrast, and so I took to vice.
4 Now I suddenly realised vividly the hideous idea--revolting as a spider--of vice, which, without love, grossly and shamelessly begins with that in which true love finds its consummation.
5 In our temples we recognize no other distinctions," read the Grand Master, "but those between virtue and vice.
6 To attain this end we must secure a preponderance of virtue over vice and must endeavor to secure that the honest man may, even in this world, receive a lasting reward for his virtue.
7 Wealth and poverty, fame and obscurity, power and subordination, strength and weakness, health and disease, culture and ignorance, work and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are only greater or lesser degrees of freedom.
8 So that the greater the conception of necessity the smaller the conception of freedom and vice versa.
9 With the Republicans in the political saddle the town entered into an era of waste and ostentation, with the trappings of refinement thinly veneering the vice and vulgarity beneath.
10 He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.
11 Stubb longed for vermillion stars to be painted upon the blade of his every oar; screwing each oar in his big vice of wood, the carpenter symmetrically supplies the constellation.
12 This is a cogent vice thou hast here, carpenter; let me feel its grip once.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 108. Ahab and the Carpenter. 13 Its excellent fruit was quite a temptation to the hungry swarms of boys, as well as the older slaves, belonging to the colonel, few of whom had the virtue or the vice to resist it.
14 Careless fellow as I am, I am not so indifferent, Mrs. Bounderby, as to be regardless of this vice in your brother, or inclined to consider it a venial offence.
15 Not, I should hope, of the proportion of virtue to vice throughout the kingdom.