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  • One might expect, in a free, just-minded society, Democrats to attempt to persuade the two defectors back across the aisle.

    New York Democrats : Thieves reacting poorly to being robbed - E_Pluribus_Unum’s blog - RedState 2009

  • “She promised it so often — besides, I daresay she was a just-minded old thing, and remembered that it was really Whittaker money which had come to her over the head of the Rev. Charles, or whatever his name was.”

    Unnatural Death Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 03 1988

  • Then, if invalidism is to be accepted, meet it bravely and serenely as may be; and if death, then approach it loftily, for no one dies with his work undone, and no just-minded person can wish to survive his service.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various

  • In short … he was a fair example of what a just-minded and pure man might be, while untempted by unruly or ambitious desires, and left to follow the bias of his feelings, amid the solitary grandeur and ennobling influences of a sublime nature.

    Chapter 2. James Fenimore Cooper 1921

  • And Mr. Harding, being an open-handed, just-minded man, had, on his instalment, declared his intention of adding twopence a day to each man's pittance.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Various 1910

  • Let us even imagine that we have not to do with Philip whose cruelty has struck you dumb (for what other reason can there be for you who have been summoned to the council keeping silence?), but with Antigonus, a gentle and just-minded monarch who has been the greatest benefactor to us all.

    The History of Rome, Vol. IV 1905

  • Although it would require volumes to contain the great arguments, I shall attempt here to give a brief summary of the causes of our sectional controversy, and it will be my purpose to state the cases of the two sections so impartially that just-minded people on both sides will admit the statement to be judicially fair.

    Reminiscences of the Civil War 1904

  • "Mr Pinsent," I said, "is a just-minded man, an 'you may be sure," I said, "he'll mete out the same to all, last as well as first."'

    Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Thence the judges proceeded to Exeter and thence to Taunton, which they reached in the first week of September, more like furious and ravenous beasts which have tasted blood and cannot quench their cravings for slaughter, than just-minded men, trained to distinguish the various degrees of guilt, or to pick out the innocent and screen him from injustice.

    Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Molly did as much, her stout-hearted and just-minded mother being the main source of Wingate news.

    The Covered Wagon Emerson Hough 1890

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