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Of course, Bok, as editor of the Tonic, promptly pigeon-holed the reporter's "copy"; then relented, and, in a fine spirit of large-mindedness, "printed" Kipling's p�ans of rapture over Bok's subscriber.

From The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after by Bok, Edward William

The English historical tradition has at least a loose large-mindedness which always finally falls into the praise not only of great foreigners but great foes.

From A Short History of England by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

There was nothing about him wonderful in the way of genius, heroism, large-mindedness, or unselfishness.

From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

The clergyman and the minister were friends of a sort, a friendship which was cultivated on chance occasions as much from the desire to exercise and display large-mindedness as from the drawings of personal sympathy.

From What Necessity Knows by Dougall, Lily

It is so easy to tell you this, for I know that your large-mindedness will receive it very differently from most people, and that you will see it as I do.

From Indian Summer by Howells, William Dean