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  • James were gentle, nice-minded, indoor people, fond of a quiet life.

    Life's Little Ironies 2006

  • So nice-minded in all else, he looked forward to the prospect of a brilliant marriage, solely in order to be able to continue to maintain her, to keep her always.

    The Guermantes Way 2003

  • Well, she had had no business to understand — that was the long and the short of it: nice-minded girls found such a thing impossible, and turned incuriously away.

    The Getting of Wisdom 2003

  • She is a nice-minded woman, very quiet, and grateful for anything done for her.

    Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow

  • Your very first duty when you are thrown with others is to see that _no one shall ever be less nice-minded because they knew you_.

    Stray Thoughts for Girls Lucy H. M. Soulsby

  • It makes a difference, for no one ever tells an unkind story to a large-hearted woman, or a nasty story to a nice-minded woman.

    Stray Thoughts for Girls Lucy H. M. Soulsby

  • Every girl sets the tone of those she talks with, for every one's conscience responds to the tacit appeal of a nice-minded girl's dislike of these things.

    Stray Thoughts for Girls Lucy H. M. Soulsby

  • Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity.

    The Fashion in Shrouds Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931

  • I never do see how any really nice-minded woman can marry again.

    The Fire Within 1913

  • My mother took the position that Hilda was just a sweet, nice-minded girl who was very unhappy and needed comforting, and advice.

    We Three Gouverneur Morris 1914

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