...Three thousand francs a month!—what could any decent person do with that? ... 
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...And a treason never amounts to anything among decent people...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
... “That’s one to me and two to you, with decent luck,” said he...
Anthony Hope 「The Prisoner of Zenda」
...The Tuesday came, and in the evening I set out rather late for the Moot Hall,for I had been getting into decent clothes after a long, hot stride...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...It was just at the moment when that young nobleman was employed in selling the last decent clothing he had left...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
... “Got to stay in India? Hard lines!” Then the conversation would be bluntly changed, for in the height of one's enthusiasm it is not decent to hurt another fellow's feelings...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...There was a very clever and decent free young mulatto-manwho sailed a long time with us: he had a free woman for his wife, bywhom he had a child; and she was then living on shore, and all veryhappy...
Olaudah Equiano 「The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African」
...Next morning this generous man arrayed me in decent clothing, and continued during the whole period of my stay to treat me as if I had been his brother...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... On the fourth morning after the letter had been despatched, the famous Bombay made his appearance, followed in decent order and due rank by the "Faithfuls" of "Speke...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...Living in the native style is cheap; but cooks are hardly procurable, and a decent table is more expensive than in an English country town...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
... does it linger? Why are wesilent about it? Why in the minds of so many decent and up-seeing folksdoes the whole Negro problem resolve itself into the matter of theirgetting a cook or a maid?...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「Darkwater」
...She would make it possible for these poor beasts of burden to be decent in their toil...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...After a decent interval, long enough tosuggest that she had not been watching their approach and was notover-eager about the visit, she answered the knock and admitted theminto the parlor...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The House Behind the Cedars」
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