self-respectingly

"But I am Pierre Corneille notwithstanding," he self-respectingly said once, when friends were regretting to him some deficiency of grace in his personal carriage.

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

So many restaurants here are both inexpensive and good that I can return their hospitality self-respectingly and without undue expense.

The Native Son Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921

` ` Except the men who do manual labor, there are precious few men who can make a living honestly and self-respectingly.

The Conflict 1911

Robin could not feel that she was not being accepted as of the class of young persons who support themselves self-respectingly, though even the most modest earned income would have represented wealth to her ignorance.

The Head of the House of Coombe Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

"Except the men who do manual labor, there are precious few men who can make a living honestly and self-respectingly.

The Conflict David Graham Phillips 1889