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Clermont Lynmere, her own natural relation, and mine into the bargain, for the sake of a stranger to us all; which I hold to be rather uncommendable, considering we know nothing about him; though there's no denying his being handsome enough to look at; which, however, is no certainty of his making

Camilla 2008

At first, the vows for the monastic community included avoiding only the “naturally uncommendable actions” (rang-bzhin kha-na-ma-tho-ba) – the physical and verbal actions that are destructive for everyone, whether lay or ordained.

A Summary Report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages ��� Part One: Background 2007

At first, the vows for the monastic community included avoiding only the “naturally uncommendable actions” (rang-bzhin kha-na-ma-tho-ba) – the physical and verbal actions that are destructive for everyone, whether lay or ordained.

The Establishment of the Bhikshuni Order in India 2007

Even were it largely curiosity, however, it would not be uncommendable, for curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.

Villa Incognito Robbins, Tom 2003

During the last two centuries men appear to have striven, with a most uncommendable zeal, all over Christendom, to root out and extirpate every trace of the

Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

"Oh, my auntie!" murmured Amelia Boggs, using most uncommendable slang.

Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch Annie Roe Carr

He arrived at the Eighty-second Street apartment about six o'clock in the evening, and, after studying the dingy name-plates, took the five flights of stairs with uncommendable speed, and presented himself at the rear door on the sixth floor.

Quin Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

As was natural for Jerry, and not uncommendable, he chose at once the latter course, bargained for his twenty acres -- for land was cheap then, bought his mule, built his cabin, and set up his household goods.

The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

She had dressed her hair in a bunch of curls, high on the head, and over her forehead she wore the circlet of diamonds which my great-grandfather had given to that French ancestress of ours with the uncommendable but frank conduct.

Nancy Stair A Novel Elinor Macartney Lane 1886

An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth -- a fact which is recognized by the law of libel.

Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories Mark Twain 1872