vertueuse

Jean de Meun "oncques n'ot acointance ne hantise de femme honorable ne vertueuse, mais par plusieurs femmes dissolues et de male vie hanter, comme font communément les luxurieux cuida ou faingny savoir que toutes telles feussent car d'autres n'avoit congnoissance."

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

She died June 5, 1600, and on her tomb she is named, “la noble et vertueuse dame Regina de Lassin, veuve de feu Orland de Lassus.”

The Love Affairs of Great Musicians Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 1903

Seigneur, lui dit-il, la vertueuse Calciope vient de recevoir mes voeux aux pieds des autels, j'ose vous prier d'approuver cette union.

The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 1868

"Je ne veux donc par ma Chronique mettre les biensfaicts des Espaignols en publy, mais dire que pour vertueuse defence, doibuent auoir louange honorable."

The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 William Hickling Prescott 1827

An intimacy of the most confidential nature thus sprang up between the milliner and the chief of the kitchen; but I do not know whether it was with pleasure or mortification that Madame received the declarations of friendship which the young Alcides proffered to her, for he persisted in calling her “La respectable Fribsbi,” “La vertueuse Fribsbi,” — and in stating that he should consider her as his mother, while he hoped she would regard him as her son.

The History of Pendennis 2006

An intimacy of the most confidential nature thus sprang up between the milliner and the chief of the kitchen; but I do not know whether it was with pleasure or mortification that Madame received the declarations of friendship which the young Alcides proffered to her, for he persisted in calling her "La respectable Fribsbi," "La vertueuse Fribsbi," -- and in stating that he should consider her as his mother, while he hoped she would regard him as her son.

The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

“Ainsi ", the Abbe concludes, “furent expiees les morts a jamais deplorables d'un prince magnanime, et de la plus belle et de la plus vertueuse princesse qui fut jamais.

The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901

"Ainsi", the Abbé concludes, "furent expiées les morts à jamais déplorables d'un prince magnanime, et de la plus belle et de la plus vertueuse princesse qui fut jamais.

The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886

"Cymbeline" and "Lohengrin," was adapted from an old French romance, entitled "L'Histoire de Gerard de Nevers et de la belle et vertueuse

The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876