"Scandal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... best," thought the squire. "Barton will never dare to come back, and we shall be spared the scandal of a trial." ...
— Five Hundred Dollars - or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret • Horatio Alger
... l. The chief part of our congregation are SLAVES, and their owners allow them, in common, but three or four bits per week[4] for allowance to feed themselves; and out of so small a sum we cannot expect any thing that can be of service from them; if we did it would soon bring a scandal upon religion; and the FREE PEOPLE in our society are but poor, but they are all willing, both free and slaves, to do what they can. As for my part, I am too much entangled with the affairs of the world to go on," as I would, "with my design, in ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916 • Various
... magistrate, M. de la Gorce had the best possible opportunities for gauging the moral character of the inhabitants, and he assured me that during the whole period of his residence in St.-Omer, extending now over twelve or thirteen years, he has never known more than one serious domestic scandal to disturb the even tenour of its social life. Of how many towns of twenty thousand inhabitants could the same thing be truly said in England or the United States? During all these years, too, M. de la ...
— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert
... walls seemed no longer to represent the aspiration of the artist; they were mementos of the models who had posed and flirted and talked scandal within ...
— The Devil - A Tragedy of the Heart and Conscience • Joseph O'Brien
... death to the devils! and the canaille were delighted. The joker added, 'Give me a fowl fed by M. Colbert, if you like! and I will pay all you ask.' And immediately there was a clapping of hands. A frightful scandal! you understand; a scandal which forces a ...
— Ten Years Later - Chapters 1-104 • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
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