The clerk's a man with a very well-regulated mind. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914] Reference
There is no liberty like that of a well-regulated home. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
It has a calendar too, as all well-regulated offices should have. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919] Reference
Empress cloth was a staple in all well-regulated dress goods lines. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
The triumphant conclusion was that a well-regulated coffee-house was. From Wordnik.com. [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference
There is hardly any one thing on a well-regulated farm so much needed as. From Wordnik.com. [Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside] Reference
The domestic life was that of any other well-regulated and happy family. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference
I have known such a thing happen even to an otherwise well-regulated sentry. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
It is delightful to be in a nicely furnished, well-regulated house once more. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
We try to be a well-regulated household, upholding the high standard of Overton. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
It was the regular routine of drinking in well-regulated and temperate families. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
He insisted that no well-regulated emergency feed ever went without bacon and eggs. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls Through New England or, Held by the Gypsies] Reference
Any well-regulated country tavern can furnish everything of that sort that you will require. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 20, August 13, 1870] Reference
The natives were also skilful in the making of pottery and they had a well-regulated calendar. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
In any well-regulated library, the absence of any book from its place can almost always be accounted for. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
In short, his interests were extensive and various, but all snug and well-regulated, and under his control. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
Too, the provisions made for the creature comforts of men are ample, experience-tested, and well-regulated. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
In all well-regulated gardens there should be a little liberal selection of the various wheel and hand tools. From Wordnik.com. [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference
In any event no well-regulated New England mind would permit itself to become disturbed over so small a matter. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
I have yet to see the first proof in man or woman, that well-regulated activity of the brain injures the health. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
In those happy days a well-regulated family always rose with the dawn, dined at eleven, and went to bed at sunset. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
In every well-regulated team nowadays the pitchers and catchers are paired, and the same pair always work together. From Wordnik.com. [Base-Ball How to Become a Player] Reference
The care and finish of his dress and manner showed pronounced pride of rank -- a kind of well-regulated ostentation. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
To that well-regulated mind nothing within the course of its ordinary and appointed avocations seemed unworthy of its care. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
It might seem therefore that things are so well-regulated that the prospect of every man finding his niche is better than even. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
But in so affectionate and well-regulated a family I am not sure that its presence would not have constituted a new source of happiness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
Its banking and real-estate sectors, in particular, have been models of well-regulated stability compared with their American counterparts. From Wordnik.com. [Canada Grows Up] Reference
It is certainly very painful to a well-regulated mind to see the irreverent contempt shown by this beautiful mineral to the dictates of science. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
State; and amongst his favourite horses, a pair of foals are stated to be the very utmost a well-regulated equine couple would permit themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
"It is customary to regard the occasion as one proper for suffering," said Mrs. Temperley, "and every well-regulated husband would suffer accordingly.". From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
We believe that more girls are benefited than are injured by the regimen of a well-regulated school, and our belief is founded upon years of observation. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
At last we came to the ferry and saw on the hillside, among the forest trees, the white tents, already taking on the appearance of a well-regulated camp. From Wordnik.com. [The Tory Maid] Reference
The only things every well-regulated office has which it lacks are the red-and-white signs "Do It Now" and the far more cheerful wall motto, "Out to Lunch.". From Wordnik.com. [The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919] Reference
Moreover, a very short time of well-regulated fomentation improves the general health, and prevents the diseased material spreading from the foot or ankle through the body. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
But, "continued the Prince," as there are exceptions to all rules, the exceptions were the kindly-disposed and well-regulated households, which were spoken of and laughed at. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
How could any properly constituted nymph play hide-and-seek with the moonbeams, or cast an eye upon a handsome boatman, from under the well-regulated bank of a river of to-day?. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
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