'She was the conscientious and high-principled kind.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side]

You are such a high-principled girl, so different from many others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Haunted Chamber A Novel] Reference

'Ah, noble Edgar! just, high-principled, and firm!' half pronounced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camilla] Reference

Hurrah for Rupert Murdoch and his high-principled publishing house!.    From Wordnik.com.  [For reals?] Reference

But there were high-principled men who resisted the domineering monarch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference

Only the best and most high-principled among them will refrain from doing so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls] Reference

Their loyalty was high-principled and self-sacrificing, yet at the same time discriminating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference

This high-principled girl, strong for self-sacrifice upon the altar of duty, was intensely human.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

There is in no country a more honorable, high-principled, and conscientious soldier than Cavaignac.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

Dale, asking herself sundry questions, with an idea of being high-principled as to her duty in that respect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Small House at Allington] Reference

If he was to retrieve himself in her eyes, he would have to do something brave, high-principled, distinctive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

But he is thoughtful and high-principled, and has a method and a purpose in the use which he makes of his money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phineas Finn] Reference

The Chinese were either too high-principled to deceive or too innocent to understand the mechanics of deception.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Speaker Of Mandarin]

At first this brutality bothered me, especially since the outlaws are portrayed as an honest, high-principled group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-10-01] Reference

He was generous, bold, and high-principled; but the simplest accident would turn all those qualities into their reverse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

She was a high-principled woman, '' says Fray, who insisted to NEWSWEEK that he had no intention of accepting the offer to buy votes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill And Hillary's Long, Hot Summer] Reference

Lucy had a great idea of duty; hers was no high-principled love of duty from the noblest motives, but a morbid dread of self-reproach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference

Oswald had no censure for this high-principled, conscientious girl's infatuation, but indignantly railed against her spiritual advisers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

She got rid of him with high-principled dexterity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love Me Little, Love Me Long] Reference

You should not pander to your high-principled ladies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sisters] Reference

You won't be so implacably high-principled as all that!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Traveler from Altruria: Romance] Reference

But the trouble is that most of them are too high-principled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of the King] Reference

O.M. Alexander Hamilton was a conspicuously high-principled man.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Is Man? and Other Essays] Reference

I am a Mozart; and, though young, still a high-principled Mozart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01] Reference

He could not accept the suggestion that Deb was not high-principled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sisters] Reference

Ah! He's a dear boy; and wonderful high-principled since he's been in the war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Windows] Reference

Otherwise, they might have been even more virtuous and high-principled than they were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton] Reference

It was a perfectly horrid life for a good, well-trained, high-principled person to lead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carbonels] Reference

The fact is, that high-principled, religious, and well-conducted people always like each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01] Reference

His was one of those high-principled natures who hold that breadth is synonymous with weakness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Freelands] Reference

He felt a great respect, even tenderness, for this taciturn, high-principled, devoted scientist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Rocked the Earth] Reference

The Revolution was, indeed, true thunder -- a courageous and, in the main, high-principled struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of the Battle of Chateauguay Being a Lecture Delivered at Ormstown, March 8th, 1889] Reference

They say he's so religious, so high-principled, so upright, so clever; but they don't see what I've seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

Lilian Dale, asking herself sundry questions, with an idea of being high-principled as to her duty in that respect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Small House at Allington] Reference