Rich and idle always, vicious or virtuous according to their temperament and the measure of their temptations, they had no use for the great workers of the world, unless indeed those workers' struggles, victories, and defeats lay in the world of finance.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Val, as she speedily demonstrated, declined to look upon him as a hero, or as being particularly virtuous.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
As it happens, there's a good deal more courage in the fellow than I ever gave him credit for, and it's unfortunate that virtuous indignation doesn't make up for an inequality in muscular weight.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss