exemplary
Definition: Serving as a model or example worthy of copying
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Author's Digest - By Rossiter Johnson
...The third and last masculine member of the household was Pierrot, the parrot, heretofore an exemplary bird, as Pierre was an exemplary husband, and M. Paul Bouchard the most exemplary man in Paris ....
The Widow Barnaby - By Frances Milton Trollope
...In the history he had given of himself, he had spoken of a certain most respectable bookseller, who -LRB- as he modestly hinted -RRB-, knowing his worth, and the exemplary manner in which he had turned from horse-racing to preaching, had exerted himself in the kindest manner to obtain some situation for him that should atone for the severity of his father ....
The Inheritors - By Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, F. M. Hueffer
...One of them was tall and blond, with a heavy, bow-shaped red moustache--Irish in type; the other of no particular height, excellently groomed, dark, and exemplary ....
The Scarlet Letter - By Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joseph Hatton
...This learned stranger was exemplary, as regarded, at least, the outward forms of a religious life, and, early after his arrival, had chosen for his spiritual guide the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale ....
Wuthering Heights - By Emily Bront
...For, " Said she, smiling slyly at her own fair image in the glass, " he has been a most exemplary attendant at church these last few Sundays ....
A Tale of Two Cities - By Charles Dickens, Frederick S Boas, T. H. Allen
...Exquisite gentlemen of the finest breeding, which was at that remarkable time--and has been since--to be known by its fruits of indifference to every natural subject of human interest, were in the most exemplary state of exhaustion, at the hotel of Monseigneur ....
My - By Willa Cather, Wladyslaw Theodore Benda
...The Vannis kept exemplary order, and closed every evening at the hour suggested by the City Council ....
The count of Monte-Cristo - By Alexandre Dumas
...Morrel could not resist this; he was not exemplary for piety, he was not easily impressed, but Valentine suffering, weeping, wringing her hands before him, was more than he could bear in silence ....
The Last of the Mohicans - By James Fenimore Cooper
...During this display of emotion so natural in their situation, Hawk-eye, whose vigilant distrust had satisfied itself that the Hurons, who disfigured the heavenly scene, no longer possessed the power to interrupt its harmony, approached David, and liberated him from the bonds he had, until that moment, endured with the most exemplary patience . "...
Mansfield Park - By Jane Austen, R. Brimley Johnson
...I must really congratulate your ladyship, " said she, " on the play being chosen; for though you have borne it with exemplary patience, I am sure you must be sick of all our noise and difficulties ....
Silas Marner - By George Eliot, Edward Leeds Gulick
...Marner was highly thought of in that little hidden world, known to itself as the church assembling in Lantern Yard; he was believed to be a young man of exemplary life and ardent faith; and a peculiar interest had been centred in him ever since he had fallen, at a prayer-meeting, into a mysterious rigidity and suspension of consciousness ,0 which, lasting for an hour or more, had been mistaken for death ....
The Prince and the Pauper - By Mark Twain
...That innocent and most exemplary life was drawing rapidly to its close, and in a few days he rendered up his spirit to his Creator, praying God to defend the realm from Papistry ....
Hard Times - By Charles Dickens
...Very philosophical, " returned the stranger, " and very exemplary and laudable, and "--It seemed to be scarcely worth his while to finish the sentence, so he played with his watch-chain wearily . "...
Pilgrim's Progress - By John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Frank Cheyne Pape
...Not long after his return into England, that exemplary pattern of gravity and wisdom, the Lord Ellesmere, then Keeper of the Great Seal, the Lord Chancellor of England, taking notice of his learning, languages, and other abilities, !...
The Return of the Native - By Thomas Hardy, John William Cunliffe
...She acted as the most exemplary might have acted, being so influenced; she took an airing twice or thrice a day upon the Egdon hills, and kept her eyes employed ....