Graces, for the like reason, have been held to continue in a sempiternal pudicity. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3] Reference
Finally, the eyes are ordered to wander indiscriminately, and with all pudicity, over the whole flock, and never to be fixed upon a pretty lamb. From Wordnik.com. [To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I] Reference
The Muses upon the same consideration are esteemed perpetual maids: and the Graces, for the same reason, have been held to continue in a sempiternal pudicity. From Wordnik.com. [Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction] Reference
There is a pudicity in noble minds which withholds them from speaking of their personal sufferings; proudly they hide the extent of their woes from hearts that love them, feeling. From Wordnik.com. [The Lily of the Valley] Reference
School, but was soon busily employed on his own account in supplying the jewellers 'shops with miniature paintings on ivory; pretty heads and fancy subjects or mythological scenes to be framed with gold or set with diamonds; the beau of the day was incomplete without a costly snuff-box adorned with a lid, the prettiness of which, perhaps, somewhat surpassed its pudicity. From Wordnik.com. [Art in England Notes and Studies] Reference
The bloom of pudicity was brushed off. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10] Reference
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