Proponents of standing in the workplace concede that they don't know how much uprightness is needed to produce the benefits they associate with standing tall. From Wordnik.com. [Those with a desk job, please stand up] Reference
Men having this kind of uprightness and loyalty, rarely are much given to words or demonstrations of affection. From Wordnik.com. [Hetty's Strange History] Reference
The former is better; Job maintained his own "uprightness" (Job 16: 17. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB):] Reference
Confucius answered, Our clan's uprightness is unlike that. From Wordnik.com. [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference
She has to see that he walks in paths of truth and uprightness. From Wordnik.com. [The Khaki Kook Book A Collection of a Hundred Cheap and Practical Recipes Mostly from Hindustan] Reference
Wrath, a wrath born of uprightness and sense of justice, guided her actions. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Let peace come, let him rest in his bed that hath walked in his uprightness. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Miss Eliza's sturdy uprightness disdained the "safety first" aid of pillows. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
Herbert coughed behind his hand, his air one of great virtue and uprightness. From Wordnik.com. [Rival Pitchers of Oakdale] Reference
He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB):] Reference
"Good old Quirk" was a synonym for strength and uprightness of life in those days. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
Goodness outranks even uprightness, because the good man aims to do good to others. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh's majesty. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB):] Reference
His is the most striking example upon record of the necessity for uprightness in word and deed. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned the judgments of thy justice. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
There is a truthfulness in action as well as in words, which is essential to uprightness of character. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
Both are widely respected for their uprightness and their determination to improve the state of the nation. From Wordnik.com. [How To Rescue Turkey] Reference
How was it that he had not read, in those eyes, pure as the fountain's source, the candor and uprightness of. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There is in the soul no absolute standard of right; if there were, uprightness would be the same the world over. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Having early formed the high ideals of uprightness, no man could ever bring against him the charge of dishonesty. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919] Reference
Edward Giles was famed for his uprightness and generous disposition, and was looked up to by all the neighbourhood. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
It was evident, therefore, that both prudence and uprightness would enjoin him to carry on any future relations with. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
All these bore witness to the uprightness of her life while in Ferrara, but of her career in Rome they knew nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
It was this robust and manly cavalier, in whose face, as in an open book, one read uprightness, courage, and goodness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
You young men cannot make up your mind too soon that there can be no sure success apart from uprightness and integrity. From Wordnik.com. [Men in the Making] Reference
At first, a year and a half ago, she was cleanly and upright — that is, he spoke of such uprightness as invariably follows cleanliness. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
Central Europe, George Podiebrad's wisdom and uprightness had brought him many requests to act as arbitrator or intermediary in disputes. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
Not for thy righteousness, or the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess the land, but for the wickedness of those nations the. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
Look at their self-restraint and intelligence, their fidelity and uprightness, and that bravery courage and magnanimity so conspicuous in many!. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Was Aspasia vile? some said so -- yet she did a nobler work, and was finer in her fall, if she fell, than many good women in all the glory of uprightness are. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
An excellent comparison to show the relation that good manners bear to uprightness and integrity of character was drawn a number of years ago by a famous Italian prelate. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy your people, that are present here, offer willingly to you. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB):] Reference
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