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It therefore has a certain candour which was a little lacking from Formosa after August 23.

Chinese Nationalism Old and New 1958

It therefore has a certain candour which was a little lacking from Formosa after August 23.

Chinese Nationalism Old and New 1958

To be candid – and oh, Louisa, candour is a rare thing among women when it comes to talking of the men – I believe I'd rather be cooking Peter's meals and dusting his home.

Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1912

Then we soon took it; but in candour I should state that the breaches were rendered more practicable than when first stormed, the defences destroyed, and the enemy's means of defence diminished.

The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

Not even our candour, which is immense, permits us to reprint the slogan the manufacturer has adopted for his poster: those who go prowling on Hudson Street may see it for themselves.

Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

It was the second time that they had met under strange circumstances; yet now as before the sense of her candour was his ruling thought.

The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899

I believe that my candour was a surprise; perhaps it seemed a defiance.

The King's Mirror Anthony Hope 1898

And now the experience of more than twenty years leaves little room to doubt but that it is a state, of things the most favourable to mutual candour, which is of great importance to domestic peace and good neighbourhood and to the cause of all truth, religious truth least of all excepted.

Priestley in America 1794-1804 Edgar Fahs Smith 1891

Charity as she bears the present prejudices, or judges of the future state of men, is called candour, as opposed to censorious judging.

A Charity Sermon. First Delivered in Salisbury, July 28; And Afterwards in Other Places in Rowan, and the Counties Adjoining; Particularly at Sugar's Creek, in Mecklenburg County, at the Opening of the Synod of the Carolinas, October 2: And Last, at the Meeting of the Hon. the General Assembly of North Carolina in Fayetteville, December, 1793. By the Rev. Samuel E. M'Corkle, D. D. Pastor of the Church at Thyatira and Salisbury in Rowan County, North-Carolina 1793

"Personally, I will miss him, for I can recall his candour and grace during our several conversations and his intense interest in the first Carifesta staged in Guyana, in 1972," Green said.

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