vertu

How to use vertu in a sentence

• Voltaire describes his hero “qui tient sous la clef, la vertu de sa femme.”

  The Swastika | Thomas Wilson

• La virginit n'est pas une vertu, c'est un tat; c'est une sous-division des couleurs.

  Instigations | Ezra Pound

• Wherfore I maye iustelye conclude, that true felicity doth consist in wisdome and vertu.

  The Path-Way to Knowledg | Robert Record

• Item, Esperaunce is a noble vertu, be the quhilk Knychtis traistis to haue the victory in battail and in feicht.

  The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood | Ramon Llull

• It was one of those little pet objects of vertu, to which a bachelor sometimes treats himself in lieu of domestic luxuries.

  My Wife and I | Harriet Beecher Stowe