See quotations.
1834. They [the New-Yorkers] are a whole-souled people, and I like ’em, but I have staid long enough.—Caruthers, ‘The Kentuckian in New-York,’ i. 190.
1834. The Rev. Mr. F. was a whole-souled and obliging man.—Vermont Free Press, Fayettevelle, Nov. 8.
1834. He is a whole-souled chap (said Ned) and will make the best sailor that ever went from Old Hampshire County.—Id., Nov. 22.
1835. [When an editor marries], he is no longer the “whole-soul’d” pleasant chap he once was.—Bucks Co. (Pa.) Intelligencer, Oct. 19.
1837. According to the popular acceptation of the phrase, a “whole-soul” is a boiler without a safety valve, doomed sooner or later to explode with fury, if wisdom with her gimblet fail in making an aperture: the puncture, however, being effected, the soul is a whole-soul no longer.—J. C. Neal, in ‘A Whole-souled Fellow’: ‘Charcoal Sketches,’ p. 165.
1839. They were whole-souled liberal hearted young fellows, and therefore they would have something to drink.—Charles F. Briggs, ‘Harry Franco,’ i. 84.
1844. It would drive a pang deep into the heart of many a whole-souled democrat as he pushed his plane, swung his axe, or followed his plough.—Mr. Henley of Indiana, House of Repr., Dec. 22: Cong. Globe, p. 78, App.
1850. We know of but one real genuine, whole-souled, praiseworthy militia captain.—James Weir, ‘Lonz Powers,’ i. 245 (Phila.).
1851. A noble, whole-souled gentleman, whose liberality will earn him the thanks of his countrymen.—Philadelphia Age, Jan. 14 (de Vere).
1853. [The steamer Flag] is in charge of Capt. Gordon, a whole-souled officer.—Daily Morning Herald, St. Louis, June 25.
1854. There was nothing narrow, sectarian, or sectional, in Bolus’s lying. It was on the contrary broad and catholic. It had no respect to times or places. It was as wide, illimitable, as elastic and variable as the air he spent in giving it expression. It was a generous, gentlemanly, whole-souled faculty.—J. G. Baldwin, ‘Flush Times,’ p. 6.
1858. Pennsylvania’s favorite son, James Buchanan, every inch a man, with genuine nationality and whole-souled conservatism in every movement.—Mr. Stewart of Maryland, House of Repr., July 29: Cong. Globe, p. 992, Appendix.
1876. A whole-souled Fenian, formerly in the book-business in New York.—‘Southern Hist. Soc. Papers,’ i. 265.
1908. One of the things Mr. Taft does best is to smile upon people in a genuinely friendly, whole-souled, frank spirit, and make them like him.—N.Y. Evening Post, Oct. 22.
