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Jewish fury, Roman statecraft and law-abidingness, two years of a prison, a stormy voyage, a shipwreck, led him to his long-wished-for goal.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Maclaren, Alexander

Now, if there was one thing more than another upon which the doctor had dwelt in his conversation with me, it was upon the essential law-abidingness, not to say gentleness, of his much-misrepresented country.

From The Day's Work - Volume 1 by Kipling, Rudyard

Oh, the decency, the restraint, and the enduring law-abidingness of London's poor, in the face of continuously flaunting plenty, of gross ostentation!

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)

We have from our earliest youth been taught to believe that the law-abidingness of the Englishman was innate and impeccable.

From Humanly Speaking by Crothers, Samuel McChord