Our Ruth is the most self-sacrificing woman, I ever knew. From Wordnik.com. ['Our Guy' or, The elder brother] Reference
Welford, one of the kindest and most self-sacrificing of men. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
These people are not self-sacrificing, like the previous type. From Wordnik.com. [Palmistry for All] Reference
After more than fifty years of self-sacrificing work in Madras, Father. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Madras] Reference
"An admirable study of a simple-hearted, well-reared, and self-sacrificing child.". From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of St. Olave's] Reference
Why could he not have loved this sweet self-sacrificing girl instead of her fickle sister?. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
All that is great and good, glorious, pure, gentle, self-sacrificing, finds a place in Heaven. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference
Lott Gary's self-denying, self-sacrificing labors, as a self-taught Physician, as a Missionary and. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
These close pals need to be self-disciplined, self-effacing and even, on occasion, self-sacrificing. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Moi?' Defense] Reference
Excepting in books I never knew that any one woman could be so good and self-sacrificing as you are. From Wordnik.com. [How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl] Reference
But alas! everyone is not so considerate, and we have but a select few of such self-sacrificing people. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Late in the Autumn our supplies ran very low, and our self-sacrificing president was also in poor health. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
Martin's grim and self-sacrificing fight in her cabin was given in detail with other happenings in The Hollow. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
Seldom has this country commanded the services of a more enlightened or more self-sacrificing man than Mr. Frye. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
Scutari in 1854, she little realised how far-reaching would be the effect of her noble self-sacrificing efforts. From Wordnik.com. ['My Beloved Poilus'] Reference
Such tender, self-sacrificing love compels attention, begets confidence, enkindles love, and surely wins its object. From Wordnik.com. [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference
And, strange anomaly, how much deeper would have been their antagonism toward poor, self-sacrificing, loving Marcia!. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
He is always so thoughtful and self-sacrificing, and it's more than good of him to spare his wife to nurse Mrs. Avory. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
Should we have ever established our Independence but for the countless brave, kind, and self-sacrificing acts of woman?. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Fortunately, you won't be asked to be as self-sacrificing as Washington, but you can demonstrate that kind of commitment. From Wordnik.com. [Lead Like George Washington] Reference
Here, again, the self-sacrificing spirit that woman always shows in hours of trial, shone out with surpassing brightness. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
It is this love, this hope, which makes me long to think of you as perfect -- always noble and self-sacrificing and just!. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
Then a devoted and self-sacrificing sister, Catharine Taylor, took the field, while I spent six months visiting my children. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
No member of the League devoted more earnest zeal and self-sacrificing labor to promote the reforms initiated by the League. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886] Reference
At this she smiled slightly, and said that I didn't know what I was saying, and, in fact, declined my self-sacrificing offer. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
Republic dealt with things as they were presented to them, in a spirit of self-sacrificing patriotism, and, as time has proved, with. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
A revival of old-style Japan Inc. wouldn't necessarily resurrect the self-sacrificing work ethic that made Japan an industrial titan. From Wordnik.com. [Japan's Young Slackers] Reference
The character of the unprincipled, heartless, gambling father is well drawn, as well as that of the weak but self-sacrificing mother. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Axline, of Ohio, who is doing noble service here with the thousands of other self-sacrificing men, "it is unfit to be worn by tramps.". From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
You are self-sacrificing in so far as you unswervingly practise the truth you know and follow after that which you do not yet apprehend. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to His Friends] Reference
It is full of gratitude, humility, meekness; it is self-sacrificing, forbearing, merciful; burdened with the sweet spirit of forgiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
Nobody else can take the fall for this, as has happened in so many other White House scandals -- no matter how self-sacrificing and loyal the would-be fall guy is. From Wordnik.com. [Nobody To Take The Fall] Reference
Whenever I witness an instance of genuine, self-sacrificing politeness in a railroad car, I become aware that there is at least one man on the train who has travelled very little. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
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