Mr. And Mrs. Sidney Webb were touched to their puritanic quick. From Wordnik.com. [Clifford Hugh Douglas (1879-1952)] Reference
Alas! alas! little did the young wife know the puritanic mood of. From Wordnik.com. [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference
It is alright, I guess, when he gets his puritanic streak up and goes after people he does not like. From Wordnik.com. [Keith Olbermann calls out Rush Limbaugh for saying why he thinks John Edwards cheated on Elizabeth.] Reference
The Times, for example, were poisonously puritanic, but thinking people came over to his side in a body. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference
But though his temper was puritanic and inclined to moroseness, there was no sourness or cynicism in it. From Wordnik.com. [An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times] Reference
In the "genteel row" last evening, we observed the strictest religionists of the day, not excepting puritanic. From Wordnik.com. [Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)] Reference
But now again, as so often before, directly it was put into words, his feeling seemed strained and puritanic. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
And above all, without prejudice to others, he must have such godly, innocent, puritanic souls as thou, honest Anthony, who defy. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
A nation that sought to create, simultaneously, in the same people, a glutton's greed for food, comfort, and possessions—and a puritanic morality…. From Wordnik.com. [A Specter is Haunting Texas] Reference
In obedience, however, to a puritanic streak in his nature, he hedged himself round with restrictions, lest he should believe he was setting out on all too primrose a path. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
We grieved at that robust and shrewd land's fatal weakness for making right, then wrong decisions, and standing by the latter beyond all reason and with puritanic perversity…. From Wordnik.com. [A Specter is Haunting Texas] Reference
He had not been a puritanic or condemnatory person. From Wordnik.com. [The Head of the House of Coombe] Reference
"The ancient, outworn, puritanic traditions of Right and Wrong.". From Wordnik.com. [Songs of a Sourdough] Reference
His puritanic hat, the emblem of that of Ralpho in the prints to. From Wordnik.com. [Woodstock; or, the Cavalier] Reference
"I like anything that's a bit lively, with no puritanic humbug about it.". From Wordnik.com. [The Woman with the Fan] Reference
In latter years he grew morose, puritanic and was full of dread of the Unseen. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors] Reference
Richard had long ceased to regard these matters from a strictly puritanic standpoint. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
As it is, the basis is on the whole anti-puritanic, and what we should call catholic. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859] Reference
The jealousy of puritanic fanaticism had persecuted these arts from the first rise of the. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions] Reference
It had still essentially the rôle which belonged to it in a puritanic, hardworking society. From Wordnik.com. [Psychology and Social Sanity] Reference
His father was a wealthy wine merchant, his mother a devout woman with puritanic ideas of duty. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived] Reference
But no doubt his puritanic state fell because it was dreary and ugly, as the puritanic state always has been. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Summer] Reference
The long puritanic past did not allow that slow European training in æsthetic and harmless social enjoyments. From Wordnik.com. [Psychology and Social Sanity] Reference
A conception of art that is destitute of a moral aim would have passed his understanding and his puritanic horizon. From Wordnik.com. [The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)] Reference
He had been tutor to Edward VI., the young Marcellus of Protestantism, but for Frankfort he was not puritanic enough. From Wordnik.com. [John Knox and the Reformation] Reference
It was much more congenial to his feelings than to remain under the ceremonial and puritanic restraints of the seat of. From Wordnik.com. [Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply] Reference
But this puritanic severity could not be popular and the veneration of images and relics was soon added to the ritual. From Wordnik.com. [Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1] Reference
He catches Acrasia in a net woven by the Palmer, and proceeds to smash her exquisite abode with puritanic thoroughness. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived] Reference
"Well, you surely can't suppose that there can be any puritanic humbug about Miss Schley or anything she has to do with!". From Wordnik.com. [The Woman with the Fan] Reference
Both were terrible gluttons, a fact which puritanic criticism might set down as equally to the discredit of each of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Unseen World and Other Essays] Reference
I said the virtues of the race were bourgeois and puritan; and how bourgeois is this! how puritanic! how Scottish! and how Yankee!. From Wordnik.com. [In the South Seas] Reference
Coming from the puritanic simplicity of Boston, he was evidently deeply impressed with the style and splendor which met his eye in New. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam] Reference
But at last, in cold disgust at the uncharitable puritanic weather which destroyed all beauty in the landscape, I returned to the town. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Notebook] Reference
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