From that Cooper Institute meeting Anna received almost one thousand dollars, an incredible amount for a simple speech to her unmercenary spirit, but one which was to be duplicated many times before her career was over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten American Girls From History] Reference

"I suppose the advertising business is altruistic and unmercenary?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Operation: Outer Space] Reference

She was all impulse; a shifty piece of unmercenary stratagem occasionally directing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference

She dressed quietly; was absolutely unmercenary; her intelligence -- i.e., her intellectual calibre -- was not great.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference

Don't hate me, Elma -- I am the most unmercenary of women -- Geoffrey will tell you that I am always getting into debt!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flaming June] Reference

Most unworldly he was, most unmercenary, and (as somebody has remarked) even to a disease, and, in such a degree as if an organ had been forgotten by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2] Reference

A little emblem of true love -- a little ring that symbolised unending and unmercenary affection -- was the cause of our Richard finding his happiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Million] Reference

The next afternoon Ravenel, while polishing a ragged line of a new sonnet, reclined by the window overlooking the besieged garden of the unmercenary baron.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million] Reference

Amanda was only too manifestly pleased to think that she made peasant lovers discontented and hotel porters unmercenary; she let her light shine before men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Research Magnificent] Reference

And the sunshine of the warm April afternoon, heightened it may be by her determined unmercenary pose, betrayed too the faintest hint of shabbiness in her dress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Research Magnificent] Reference

There had been, in particular, an ill-favored dude, called Ver Plank, who had always been hanging around with his tandem and his millions, who had been sacrificed a dozen times by the unmercenary angel to his.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Varmint] Reference

"man-praiser;" and his primary function is that of an informal, unmercenary, purely friendly and philanthropic matchmaker, introduced by the young man to persuade the parents of the young woman that he is a splendid fellow, with substantial possessions or magnificent prospects, and entirely fit to marry her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Manxman A Novel - 1895] Reference

Of all unmercenary women — ­.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London] Reference

Hermolaus, and all unmercenary saints ...!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of All-Power] Reference

He is so good and generous and unmercenary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independence of Claire] Reference

"Of all unmercenary women --".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference

“Of all unmercenary women — ­.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER XXX] Reference

12: 18), and there showed an unmercenary spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

Now I desire to do good to my enemy, and to really show him kindness, but before I succeed in becoming kind in my heart, I am already evil, a fiery arrow of evil already inwardly burns one; I wish to be patient, but before I have strengthened my heart in patience, I become irritable, impatient; I wish to be humble, but Satan's pride has already found ample room in my heart; I wish to be gracious, meanwhile, when it is necessary to show graciousness, I show myself rough; I wish to be unmercenary and generous, but cupidity and avarice, upon the least occasion, like hungry and roaring lions, require to be fed; I wish to be simple, trustful, but cunning and doubt already gnaw at my heart; I wish to be grave, concentrated, and reverent in my service to the Almighty, but light-mindedness and inattention of the heart prevent my becoming so; I wish to detach myself from earthly things, to be abstinent in food and drink, but when I see pleasant food and drink and sit down to table, I, like a sl.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God] Reference