wholesome-minded

Perfectly normal and marvelously wholesome-minded people are as likely to succumb to it as anybody else.

A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929

The public, in a general way, quickly distinguish between a strong, capable ruler and a weak, incompetent one; and no matter how indulgent the latter may be, they prefer the strong wholesome-minded man to the mediocrity.

Drake Nelson and Napoleon Runciman, Walter 1919

The public are not sufficiently vigilant in distinguishing between a mere entertaining rhetorician and a wholesome-minded, natural-born statesman.

Drake Nelson and Napoleon Runciman, Walter 1919

Without exception, in cases I have tried, certain wholesome-minded jurors have said after concluding the case, that the penalty was too light for the first offender.

Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade 1896

The man Jacks, seeing the way, doubtless, of getting his name before the public, estimating the possible free advertisement he could get from the reflex action of sending a sensational communication to England concerning a scarcely known class, adopted a method so thoroughly unfit for usage among honorable men that any wholesome-minded person finds it difficult to stay repugnance for such things long enough to enter a protest, or an appeal to universal reason.

The Woman's Era, Vol. 2 1895

The man Jacks, seeing the way, doubtless, of getting his name before the public, estimating the possible free advertisement he could get from the reflex action of sending a sensational communication to England concerning a scarcely known class, adopted a method so thoroughly unfit for usage among honorable men that any wholesome-minded person finds it difficult to stay repugnance for such things long enough to enter a protest, or an appeal to universal reason.

New York. 1895

The man Jacks, seeing the way, doubtless, of getting his name before the public, estimating the possible free advertisement he could get from the reflex action of sending a sensational communication to England concerning a scarcely known class, adopted a method so thoroughly unfit for usage among honorable men that any wholesome-minded person finds it difficult to stay repugnance for such things long enough to enter a protest, or an appeal to universal reason.

The Woman's Era Vol. 2 No. 4 1895

But I saw much of my sturdy and wholesome-minded old friend; and the sore pain of parting faded away out of my heart, and left me with nothing but the purest and deepest love, which helped me in all I did or said, and made me patient and tender-hearted.

The Child of the Dawn Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

But he generally has the best of a situation; and though there is little that is pastoral about him, yet he is obviously a wholesome-minded, manly sort of person, who whips the right person at the right time, and generally scores in the end.

The Upton Letters Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

He was a good-hearted and wholesome-minded boy, and left a real ache behind him in the Dower House.

By What Authority? Robert Hugh Benson 1892