uprightly
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The corporation responded by choosing the State Street Research & Management Co., of which Cabot is a partner, but uprightly turned over the commission-rich buying and selling chores to some 100 independent brokers.
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He walked uprightly at liberty under a $10,000-bond profferred by his congregation.
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"Fly love, that art so sprightly, To Bonny-boots uprightly; And when in Heav'n you meet him, Say that I kindly greet him; And that his Oriana, True widow maid still followeth Diana."
His aim had not been to rule uprightly, to rule generously, but to rule at any cost.
From Sermons by Lightfoot, J. B.
It bred a race of men who spoke the truth, lived uprightly, and met every duty without a shadow of flinching from personal consequences.
From Recollections of a Varied Life by Eggleston, George Cary