The counsels of these worldly-minded persons prevailed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference

Alas! even at this early age, how worldly-minded, how pitiful, can be our motives!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions of an Etonian] Reference

It was our poor, sinful, worldly-minded brother here present who was wrestled for.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Silvermans's Explanation] Reference

Besides, Christians even may become worldly-minded, and their religious affections low.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character] Reference

I do not blame my good mother; she is worldly-minded, and sees things from her stand-point.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference

He was a simple-hearted fellow, and he loved foolish little worldly-minded Pattie very dearly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girls of St. Olave's] Reference

Prudence with never so much as a reproving shake of the head for the worldly-minded young twins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prudence of the Parsonage] Reference

The first may be called an error of worldly-minded men, the other an error of mistaken religionists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference

Therefore they must not be brawlers and contentious persons, covetous and worldly-minded, vain and frothy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London] Reference

But since then she had seen life through the eyes of a worldly-minded old husband, and it had made a difference.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gay Cockade] Reference

It sounded very worldly-minded and decisive and Mrs. Ashburner gained an envious comfort in her daughter's declaration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gay Cockade] Reference

It is very plain that she was on the side of the poet, not of the worldly-minded persons who advocated the law, business, money-making.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans] Reference

The worldly-minded, indeed, were prone to the criticism that the material of Mrs. Weatherwax's garments was beyond cavil, but this surely was her own concern.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Henchman] Reference

Poor Aloysia would be more at home in some arbor of innocence where angels love to tarry, and where the voice and gaze of the worldly-minded have never fallen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius] Reference

A secret lies hid away somewhere in the institution of the modern dance, that makes it the chiefest attraction of worldly-minded and often of base-hearted people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference

"We're all more worldly-minded than there's need:".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Comedies of Terence] Reference

The congregation was a small one, composed of well-bred, worldly-minded folk.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Circuit Rider's Wife] Reference

"We feel she is naturally rather worldly-minded and ambitious, whereas you -" She paused.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winding Paths] Reference

The worldly-minded, the learned, the powerful, and the conservative classes were his natural enemies.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges] Reference

Here we see the difference of motive with which a religious and a worldly-minded man may do the same thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8)] Reference

This pin had been a present from the worldly-minded Mrs. Buell, who so often furnished a text to Aunt Myra's homilies.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Country Girl] Reference

But his disposition was by no means light or devoted to pursuits which worldly-minded persons would consider frivolous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf] Reference

Sir William, still more worldly-minded than he was timid, was reduced to despair by the loss by which he was threatened.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference

Even the worldly-minded young Princess was shocked by my conduct, and gazed at me in reproach; whereat I burst out laughing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youth] Reference

These fragments, however highly estimated by the naturalist and the antiquary, were held in derision by the worldly-minded Tim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference

She had kept on in the wrong way taken by her feet in the beginning, growing purse proud, vain, ambitious of external pre-eminence, worldly-minded, and self-indulgent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Allen House] Reference

How many times have we seen a daughter loyal to a frivolous, worldly-minded, insincere mother, shielding her and exhibiting to the censorious world the utmost love and trust!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference