First, The Shadow would put pressure on Jordan's outwardly respectable partners at the Vanderpool Galleries.

Although a widow and outwardly respectable, Mrs Turner was in fact an independent businesswoman who ran her own "houses of ill-repute" at Paternoster Row and Hammersmith, where couples could indulge themselves together in secrecy.

One of those was a Vauxhall Cavalier belonging to Alexander Galbraith, an outwardly respectable, married man who worked for an offshore oil company in Aberdeen.

There were those who said that Edinburgh was an invisible city, hiding its true feelings and intentions, its citizens outwardly respectable, its streets appearing frozen in time.

He suspected Noyoki to be of extraordinarily high birth, and he had tried, since the beginning, to look as outwardly respectable as someone of high caste could.

Molly's behavior and dress were outwardly respectable and modest and she was famous for her discretion, a quality that the men could well appreciate.

Clutterbuck appears to have been an outwardly respectable member of the local community, a supporter of the Conservative Party and the Church of England.

But perhaps more troubling to Colombia's democracy is how outwardly respectable citizens, fed up with the government's failure to control the guerrillas, have willingly financed the paramilitary group.

A single actor plays "Robert O'Brien", an outwardly respectable elocution tutor based in a suburb of Melbourne.

Large numbers of intelligent, outwardly respectable men and women are resorting to what experts call "ritual use" of the classroom.