Like willow-wand and veiled in pudency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

With the instinct of despair, she had buried herself deep in the hay, hiding her face in it to deaden those dreadful cries — pudency even stronger than grief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Message] Reference

The art of life has a pudency, and will not be exposed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays — Second Series] Reference

Where combine with all her coyness her pride and pudency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

You don't remember the rosy pudency of sensitive children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autocrat of the Breakfast Table] Reference

It was, her revived and uprising pudency declared, the principal; the only cause.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

There is a pudency about friendship, as about love, and though fine souls never lose sight of it, yet they do not name it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conduct of Life (1860)] Reference

Women, educated to embrace principles through their timidity and their pudency, discover, amazed, that these are not lasting qualities under love's influence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference

With the instinct of despair, she had buried herself deep in the hay, hiding her face in it to deaden those dreadful cries -- pudency even stronger than grief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Message] Reference

They have that whisper and waving of secresy in secret scenery; they beckon to the bath; and they conjure classic visions of the pudency of the Goddess irate or unsighted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

And from the form taken by such slanders as are circulated in our own sedate and moderate epoch may be conceived what might be said by political opponents in a fierce age that knew no pudency and no restraint.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Cesare Borgia]

But her anxiety was vigilant to guard her girl from an infusion of any of the dread facts of life not coming through the mother's lips: and she was a woman having the feminine mind's pudency in that direction, which does not consent to the revealing of much.    From Wordnik.com.  [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference

Each had intended to pass a day and a night in this lonely dwelling-place by the lake, but a rival was less to be tolerated there than in love, and each awaited the other's departure, with an air that said: 'You are in my sunlight'; and going deeper, more sternly: 'Sir, you are an offence to Nature's pudency!'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference

To prove his courage, he told her of his present way of life; Louise had known nothing of its hardships, for there is an indefinable pudency inseparable from strong feeling in youth, a delicacy which shrinks from a display of great qualities; and a young man loves to have the real quality of his nature discerned through the incognito.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost Illusions] Reference

So for us even the hour of liberty rang out grave and muffled, and filled our souls with joy and yet with a painful sense of pudency, so that we should have liked to wash our consciences and our memories clean from the foulness that lay upon them; and also with anguish, because we felt that this should never happen, that now nothing could ever happen good and pure enough to rub out our past, and that the scars of the outrage would remain within us forever, within the memories of those who saw it, and in the places where it occurred and in the stories that we should tell of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-01-01] Reference

A pudency so rosy the sweet view on't.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on't.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Shakespeare] Reference

A pudency so rosy the sweet view on ’t.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act II. Scene V. Cymbeline] Reference

And the tongue's pudency confides to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

Of pudency, that stain’d it; such in her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paradise. Canto XVIII] Reference

1743: witty without affection, audacious without im-pudency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Labour Lost (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference

Of pudency, that stain'd it; such in her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete] Reference

A pudency so rosy the sweet view on’t.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cymbeline] Reference

"A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on't.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827] Reference