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Liz never did get the men she coveted at various times of her long life, though one suitor seems to have committed suicide when Liz decided that he "was not sound-minded nor well-principled."

From Time Magazine Archive

As she grew up, a sound English education corrected in a great measure her French defects; and when she left school, I found in her a pleasing and obliging companion: docile, good-tempered, and well-principled.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

But contention ill accorded with the truly feminine, yet noble and well-principled, mind of Flora Macdonald.

From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Thomson, Mrs.

V. 105, that the Lacedæmonians, as far as respects themselves and their native institutions, are virtuous and well-principled; but that in their dealings with foreign states their own interest was their only standard.1852.B.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried

All his instincts told him that Kate Harston was a true-hearted and well-principled girl.

From The Firm of Girdlestone by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir