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Sophia, it may be said, was base-hearted and treacherous.

A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. Clayton Edwards

Out on the craven and base-hearted who aspire to being less than the co-rulers of a continent.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

A secret lies hid away somewhere in the institution of the modern dance, that makes it the chiefest attraction of worldly-minded and often of base-hearted people.

Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes J. M. Judy

Much is said by self-constituted reformers of the lachrymose school anent trusting maids "betrayed" by base-hearted scoundrels and loving wives led astray by designing villains; but I could never work my sympathies up to the slopping over stage for these pathetic victims of man's perfidy.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

Government fix notices at the street corners, telling the would-be gentleman how many studs he ought to wear, what style of necktie now distinguishes the noble-minded man from the base-hearted?

The Angel and the Author, and others 1893

Now this Matagorô was a base-hearted cur, who had begrudged the sword that his father had given to Yukiyé, and complained publicly and often that Yukiyé had never made any present in return; and in this way

Tales of Old Japan Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale 1876

Driven to desperation she armed herself, broke into the house, drove out the base-hearted landlord and proceeded upon the work of destruction.

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

It is the reading of fiction and impure poetry, more than all things else, I fear, which leads so many females to sacrifice themselves to unprincipled and base-hearted men.

The Young Maiden 1847

Who but the base-hearted would be unmerciful to man's most serviceable and sagacious of friends?

Dick Onslow Among the Redskins William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

I fancied every human being capable of this kind of virtue on a good opportunity, saving, indeed, such base-hearted wretches as can never forgive their very forgivers; and of these I did not suppose him to be one.

The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831