chariness

Nay, I will consent to act any villany against him, that may not sully the chariness of our honesty.

The Merry Wives of Windsor 2004

The little old gray house of the Vlasovs attracted the attention of the village more and more; and although there was much suspicious chariness and unconscious hostility in this notice, yet at the same time a confiding curiosity grew up also.

Mother 2003

I said, with a tone and manner whose consummate chariness and frostiness I could not but applaud.

Villette 2003

His principal limitation—his chariness of passion and tragedy—did not entirely reveal itself in the novels which he wrote during the Atlantic period.

Chapter 6. Howells and Realism. Section 2. William Dean Howells 1921

Nay, I will consent to act any villany against him, that may not sully the chariness of our honesty.

Act II. Scene I. The Merry Wives of Windsor 1914

She had tried to make him divine all this in the chariness of her promise to write.

The Letters 1910

But if, on the whole, the last word remained with Halidon, and Ambrose's personal chariness seemed a trifling foible compared to his altruistic breadth of intention, yet neither of us could help observing, as time went on, that the habit of thrift was beginning to impede the execution of his schemes of art-philanthropy.

In Trust 1906

She had tried to make him divine all this in the chariness of her promise to write.

Tales of Men and Ghosts Edith Wharton 1899

Ambrose's personal chariness seemed a trifling foible compared to his altruistic breadth of intention, yet neither of us could help observing, as time went on, that the habit of thrift was beginning to impede the execution of his schemes of art-philanthropy.

The Hermit and the Wild Woman Edith Wharton 1899

His chariness of speech often saved him much breath.

The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods 1890