He is generally honest, but more generally thought so, and his downrightness credits him, as a man not well bended and crookned to the times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference

The best of these came gladly to her, for she was an open and a disillusioned spirit, with something of a man's downrightness under her sensitive appreciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collectors] Reference

Even her gracefulness ran now and then into a downrightness of movement which suggested the assertion of a primitive sincerity in a personal world of many effects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference

But there was more democratic outspokenness, more middle-class downrightness, and less of the Constitutional Club and drawing-room element in those ante-du Maurier days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

On the other hand, the Erewhonian system lends itself better to the suppression of that downrightness which it seems the express aim of Erewhonian philosophy to discountenance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erewhon] Reference

Celtic literature is full of wonder, it is full of a tender magic and makes us feel the fairy charm of nature, although it has not the strength, the downrightness, we might say, of the English.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference

"How are you?" said Halliday, with all his own downrightness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch] Reference

She softened his downrightness, passed with approval his compliments to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference

"I know that," she told him, with a swift return to her old downrightness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brentons] Reference

The simple downrightness of the admission might have disconcerted another.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man in the Twilight] Reference

She had none of Aunt Agnes's downrightness, but a no less degree of persistence.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Romantic Young Lady] Reference

I like their downrightness, their pride in what they have achieved, their hatred of sham and affectation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains] Reference

At first, her vivacity, decisive tone, downrightness, and contempt of conventional standards, continued to repel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II] Reference

In those days people believed with a simple downrightness which I do not observe among educated men and women now.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way of All Flesh] Reference

But in secret she admired her daughter's candour, her downrightness and straightforwardness, her disdain of conventions and hypocrisies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tree of Heaven] Reference

"You mean I could break my word later on," inquired Barebone, with that odd downrightness which at times surprised Colville and made him think of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Hope] Reference

For Cellini has seized the right moment in a deed of horror, and Donatello, with all his downrightness and grip of the fact, has hit upon the wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett] Reference

Erewhonian system lends itself better to the suppression of that downrightness which it seems the express aim of Erewhonian philosophy to discountenance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erewhon] Reference

A tall man, dark, keen and of most soldierly bearing; beside the genial downrightness of the British officers he was urbane, suave, but full of decision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front] Reference

Grosville had been good hosts in their day; and the downrightness of the wife had been as much to the taste of many as the agreeable gossip of the husband.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Marriage of William Ashe] Reference

"You mean I could break my word later on," inquired Barebone, with that odd downrightness which at times surprised Colville and made him think of Captain Clubbe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Hope] Reference

He recalled his former downrightness only in speaking of the case of Dr. Shrapnel, upon which, both with the colonel and with her, he was unreservedly condemnatory of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

Nevertheless, he recognized all that it might portend when such a girl as Olive Keltridge, the soul of sanity and downrightness, talked about her comprehension of a man like.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brentons] Reference

Clare, like most men of his class of mind, cordially hated the present tense of action, generally; and, therefore, he was considerably annoyed by Miss Ophelia's downrightness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Tom's cabin, or Life among the lowly] Reference

On the other hand, the Erewhonian system lends itself better to the suppression of that downrightness which it seems the express aim of Erewhonian philosophy of discountenance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erewhon; or, Over the range] Reference

He recalled his former downrightness only in speaking of the case of Dr. Shrapnel, upon which, both with the colonel and with her, he was unreservedly condemnatory of Mr. Romfrey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference

St. Clare, like most men of his class of mind, cordially hated the present tense of action, generally; and, therefore, he was considerably annoyed by Miss Ophelia's downrightness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Tom's Cabin] Reference

I may note here that the power of Epicurism as a faith depended also largely on the directness, downrightness, and audacity of its system, working on minds weary of philosophers 'disputations and political quarrels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus] Reference

"There's a certain downrightness in Lady Caroline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Good-for-Nothing] Reference

"There's a terrible downrightness about that word 'death.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Troy] Reference

He's just an unmanageable, unreasonable bit of downrightness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of a Coil] Reference

It was one of the Might-Have-Beens, he called you, "she said, with brave downrightness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brentons] Reference

I haven't been out of the house to-day, "she answered with the boyish downrightness sometimes uppermost in her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brand Blotters] Reference

She rather liked his downrightness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters] Reference

He was "a man of uncommon downrightness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference

't, Mr. Temple Barholm, "she answered with Manchester downrightness.    From Wordnik.com.  [T. Tembarom] Reference

"Courage, endurance, stanchness, fidelity, and warmth of heart, simplicity, and downrightness, were his staples.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment] Reference