What strange things he has to tell you, what a noble candour he shows!He turns out his mind as carelessly as a boy turns out his pockets, and gives you the run of his whole estate.…Cited from Pebbles on the Shore, by Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)
How long would it be before we reached that stage of candour?I was brooding on this when the front-door bell rang.…Cited from Punch, Vol. 159, July 28th, 1920, ed. by Sir Owen Seaman
She told him as much in after days with her usual candour.Cited from History of Pendennis, by William M. Thackeray
With the new age we shall show a new spirit.We shall serve justice and candour and all things that make, for the right.Is not our own party disciplined and made ready for this great task?…Cited from Woodrow Wilson As I Know Him, By Joseph P. Tumulty
He was playing a game with the Japanese, and it was necessary to think accurately and quickly.And suddenly he made up his mind and assumed an air of candour.…Cited from The Orange-Yellow Diamond, by J. S. Fletcher
The loss of many souls who would gladly come to the Saviour, but who are frightened off by seeing the manner in which his case is defended.And what after all is the danger that would follow upon candour?…Cited from The Fair Haven, by Samuel Butler
There is no feeling in her speech, and yet it has great candour.I never before met any one like her.…Cited from The PG Works Of Gilbert Parker, Complete
She seated herself before the tea tray and insisted upon performing her duties as hostess.Afterwards she laid her hand upon his arm and addressed him with an air of complete candour.…Cited from The Zeppelin's Passenger, by E. Phillips Oppenheim
He broke off and looked at me with an expression of candour.Cited from Romance, by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
Nor need one fear to go direct to the lady herself, for she is the very soul of candour.Cited from Painted Windows, by Harold Begbie
"What is it you -- you can't -- can't tell me?"But he knew already, knew before she told him with desperate candour."I can't marry you, Jimmy, I'm sorry, but -- but I can't -- that's all."…Cited from The Second Honeymoon, by Ruby M. Ayres
I will see your critic, if you please, or you can give up the publication and be reimbursed, which shall make no difference in our other affairs.All I ask in this and all other affairs, are candour and decision.…Cited from A Publisher and His Friends, by Samuel Smiles
As yet she was used to thinking and speaking with all candour.She was to have her training in the charms of superficiality, but that was to come; and when it came she would not be an unskilful apprentice.…Cited from Translation Of A Savage, by G. Parker, v2
Some of the daisies came slowly towards her, hesitating, making a shy bright little cotillion on the dark clear water.Their gay bright candour moved her so much as they came near, that she was almost in tears.…Cited from Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
It is simply the knowledge of what interests him and what bores him.Let him enter upon the first section of it with candour.…Cited from The Plain Man and His Wife, by Arnold Bennett
How vividly I can recall my first conversation with him, and how he astonished me by his interest in what I told him.How grand also was his candour and pure love of truth.…Cited from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II
Because of its vivid interest and its fine candour, I will give one such story.It was told to me by a young officer of Zouaves who had been in the thickest of the fighting to the east of Paris.…Cited from The Soul of the War, by Philip Gibbs, Intro. by Anthony Langley
And I would not wish to say of poor Arthur Pendennis that he was worse than his neighbours, only that his neighbours are bad for the most part.Let us have the candour to own as much at least.Can you point out ten spotless men of your acquaintance?…Cited from History of Pendennis, by William M. Thackeray
Could any sane woman really believe that sable coats fell naturally to the lot of night watchmen?Her manner was candour itself, but how should it not be?What more inevitable than that she should make an effort to deceive a casual stranger?…Cited from The Burglar and the Blizzard, by Alice Duer Miller
His request seemed still something of a shock to the poor old lady's candour.Cited from The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II), by Henry James