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  • Everything's sleek and pristine and perfectly functional.†   (source)
  • Two dozen coves and inlets, each with its pleasant muddle of sailboats and summer homes, ran the circumference of San Piedro, an endless series of pristine anchorages.†   (source)
  • She chose a cotton T-shirt and a pair of capri pants, both pristine.†   (source)
  • By that evening, the DiLaurentises had called the police, and the next morning there were cop cars and news vans camped out on the DiLaurentises' normally pristine front lawn.†   (source)
  • By now, there was a headstone, a pristine block of white marble with Matt's name carefully carved.†   (source)
  • And once again, on the morning of New Year's Day, my grandmother would notice the frozen splatter of Hester's vomit in the snow—defacing that usually pristine area surrounding the birdbath in the center of the rose garden.†   (source)
  • She tried not to wince as his hairy, meaty fingers rubbed her pristine skin, and instead delicately inclined her head toward him.†   (source)
  • Peacekeepers, in pristine white uniforms, march on the cleanly swept cobblestones.†   (source)
  • Kreacher came bustling to the table with a large curcen in his hands, and ladled out soup into pristine bowls, whistling between his teeth as he did so.†   (source)
  • And so I watched her, seeing her reaction to the changes in my apartment—from the pristine habitat I maintained after the divorce, when all of a sudden I had too much time to keep my life in order—to this present chaos, a home full of life and love.†   (source)
  • His Trial looks as pristine as mine.†   (source)
  • She looks to be in pristine condition.†   (source)
  • The hospital wing was a long, pristine corridor with beds against the walls.†   (source)
  • Eleanor ate dinner sitting cross-legged on her bed, extra careful not to spill anything on the books because every issue was in pristine condition; there wasn't so much as a bent corner.†   (source)
  • "Yes, but —" I'd unboxed so much china from funeral sales and broken-up households that there was something almost unspeakably sad about the pristine, gleaming displays, with their tacit assurance that shiny new tableware promised an equally shiny and tragedy-free future.†   (source)
  • It's nothing like on TV, where operating rooms are like pristine theaters that could accommodate an opera singer, and an audience.†   (source)
  • Those in violation of the decree, anyone whose statue was not in pristine condition, found themselves hauled off to Blaxik, where-in a bit of irony Redd found pleasing-they were forced to make the statues until death descended upon them.†   (source)
  • There they found a rundown little shack near the edge of a pristine lake barely half a mile across, fed by a cascading creek a hundred yards away.†   (source)
  • Where the carpet had been, we discovered a pristine oak plank floor that, as best we could tell, had never suffered the scuff of a single shoe.†   (source)
  • The street where we lived, once so quiet and pristine and gleaming, turned into a war zone.†   (source)
  • A car, even a pristine gem like my new convertible, was just a thing.†   (source)
  • The Radchaai consulate was staffed by the Translators Office, and the consular agent's spotless white uniform— including pristine white gloves—argued she either had a servant or spent a good deal of her free time attempting to appear as though she did.†   (source)
  • Instantly, the Golem returned to its muddy origins, splashing foul, stinking water and dirt across the once-pristine dojo floor.†   (source)
  • The sight of pristine lines of marching soldiers going back and forth in the distance calmed my nerves.†   (source)
  • But the history of Hopkins Hospital certainly isn't pristine when it comes to black patients.†   (source)
  • The pale wood floor matched the other room, and now I grasped that it was precisely the color of a pristine beach.†   (source)
  • In the pristine houses of the High District, bottles that had waited for three years were opened and the new order was toasted.†   (source)
  • Milam Park, surrounded by the neat houses of old Clarkston, was one of the few defining landmarks of the town, and seeing its pristine fields overrun with soccer players would be an alarming sign for some in town.†   (source)
  • They were pristine as well, since we were almost never allowed to walk around.†   (source)
  • Through the archway lay a vast flower garden arranged to look as pristine and natural as a wild meadow.†   (source)
  • And in a year...I smiled, seeing a pristine, imaginary manuscript floating in mid-air, with Esther Greenwood typed in the upper-right-hand corner.†   (source)
  • That sign could last forever in this sealed and pristine environment.†   (source)
  • Molly fingers the never-used baby blanket, its basket-weave design still vivid, the stitches intricately pristine.†   (source)
  • He wasn't actually sure how he knew the way—he hadn't looked up directions ahead of time—but there was something about that pristine little church that stirred a memory, and if not a memory, a gut instinct.†   (source)
  • For the town's water supply, be tapped into a pristine ancient lake that lay a thousand feet below.†   (source)
  • The clip of boots against the pristine tile forced my eyes up, away from the doctor's face.†   (source)
  • This was a pristine beach!†   (source)
  • And yet Cheyenne Mountain is hardly pristine.†   (source)
  • The bed is strange and pristine, deathly in its untouched splendor.†   (source)
  • Our usually pristine kitchen is a disaster.†   (source)
  • It showed the Lake Palace in Udaipur, a gleaming white hotel in the middle of a pristine blue lake.†   (source)
  • A whole pile of pristine, unopened copies.†   (source)
  • It just made sense'there was no need to contaminate their pristine home any further, or the pretty bed in my room.†   (source)
  • He sits back down with Joining the Club: A History of Jews at Yale and flips through some favorite parts about how certain professors at Yale in the 1920s and 1930s reached out to ostracized Jewish students, ushering them into Yale's pristine hallways.†   (source)
  • Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love.†   (source)
  • But the snow in the backyard was equally pristine, so she hadn't left that way, either.†   (source)
  • It may have remained pristine for another sixty-six million years, unsullied by your mammalian gluttony, if not for a chance encounter with an alien visitor one-quarter the size of Manhattan.†   (source)
  • Parisians campaigned to save it, and the building was repaired and polished to the pristine state you find today.†   (source)
  • Our faces showed a pristine alertness, back there at cocktail time, when the room shook around us.†   (source)
  • The state-sponsored hunt was intended to thin the gators out a little bit, and protect a few tourists and dogs that strayed too close to the condominium ponds and pristine rivers.†   (source)
  • I walk over, tripping just enough to slop some of my drink on his pristine white suit.†   (source)
  • I spent time wishing she were less pristine.†   (source)
  • Here, in the pristine, almost virginal surroundings of the morgue, it was all more obscene.†   (source)
  • Ali held it under Mortenson's nose with one hand and fanned his other hand underneath, conjuring the Kaghan Valley, the pristine pine forest from which it had recently departed.†   (source)
  • Why Sarah had chosen such a place to train was beyond him—Rowan offered pristine facilities for its students to hone their skills.†   (source)
  • Not pristine "virtue."†   (source)
  • There was a pristine incorruptibility about her face now that upset me all the more, for she was neither kidding nor trying to insult me; and I could not tell if it were horror speaking to me ont of innocence, or innocence emerging unscathed from the obscene scheme of the evening.†   (source)
  • Dressed in our pristine white uniforms, our hair ribbons securely in place, we traipse the well-worn path up the hill to the old stone-and-beam chapel.†   (source)
  • Beneath the trees, the ground was blanketed in white, still pristine and unbroken.†   (source)
  • As we entered its pristine environs, I saw hundreds of black faces waiting to greet me.†   (source)
  • He wore a plain white T-shirt, pristine compared to the colorful ones slashed with sayings and pictures the workmen around him chose.†   (source)
  • The hallway was a glistening pristine white, antiseptic in its way, which was altogether proper, as this underground complex was a highly sophisticated medical center.†   (source)
  • Everything was pristine, everything in perfect shape.†   (source)
  • The girl who would be his daughter was the most beautiful creature he had ever shared space with, a perfect specimen of unblemished flesh, a pristine vessel that contained everything that was desirable in life.†   (source)
  • The pages were pristine now.†   (source)
  • That even enemy country should be so pristine, beautiful, and high, frozen white through summers of heat and blood, seemed to Alessandro an unambiguous promise.†   (source)
  • In his memory, his former hometown was a pristine rural community.†   (source)
  • It's pristine.†   (source)
  • I didn't want to break into it, so it's in pristine condition.†   (source)
  • You see it in the slate gray of a pristine Mercedes-Benz, the gray-white fumes funneling out the back, the gray mop of hair of the unsmiling woman at the wheel.†   (source)
  • Both of them had thick dark hair, green eyes, pristine white teeth, and lean, sturdy bodies.†   (source)
  • Metal is cut into a precise shape in the "unclean" part of the factory and is then washed in a huge industrial washing machine to remove any bits of dirt, flakes of skin, or other contaminants, and, pristine, enters the clean room.†   (source)
  • I have a deep connection with what God created, and what I would love to see more than anything else is a pristine Earth, just like the one He created.†   (source)
  • By the time Red got home from his summer job, at four p.m. or so—contractors' hours—he'd find Trey lounging on the porch with the others, a pristine white cardigan tied oh-so-casually around his shoulders and his feet encased in leather loafers with no socks (the first time Red had ever seen this practice, although unfortunately not the last).†   (source)
  • In the center of a courtyard was a magnificent marble building—it looked like a temple of sorts, with a pristine white exterior and a gem-studded roof.†   (source)
  • Instead, they found it in pristine condition, save for two dirty cups resting on the windowsill, one stained with tea, the other filled with cigarette butts, a clear violation of hotel policy.†   (source)
  • I can, of course, imagine it being deconstructed nowadays as a paradigm of colonialism, with Kevin figuring as the benign imperialist (or the missionary in the wake of the imperialist), the one who intervenes and appropriates the indigenous life and interferes with its pristine ecology.†   (source)
  • After a few minutes of bounding through the pristine powder, he crashed into the tent covered with snow and lovingly rolled over on me.†   (source)
  • There with some female friend—flush, plump and idle like herself—she would sweep through Altman and Bergdorf and Bonwit and half a dozen other fancy shops and return to Queens with the back seat stacked high with boxes of ladies' merchandise, most of which languished in pristine condition in her bureau drawers or got stuffed into the recesses of her many closets, where Blackstock later found score upon score of unused gowns and dresses faintly smudged with mildew.†   (source)
  • Was not Atman in him, did not the pristine source spring from his heart?†   (source)
  • And if, as she dreamed one winter night, a new piano she touched had turned, after the one pristine moment, into a calling cow, it was by her own desire.†   (source)
  • Agent Simkins lifted his foot and placed his boot squarely on Bellamy's pristine silk tie.†   (source)
  • The item in its pristine state consisted of a metal footlocker, U.S. Army issue, circa perhaps 1955.†   (source)
  • She came over and embraced me, getting my mess all over her pristine uniform.†   (source)
  • Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers.†   (source)
  • Everything was wrapped in garment bags, pristine and white, row after row after row.†   (source)
  • It was easy work, because the tile was white, pristine.†   (source)
  • Everything was sparkling clean, landscaped, ecologically pristine, and very expensive.†   (source)
  • Timidly she pushed it onto his lap, a pristine copy of The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore.†   (source)
  • Cinder looked up, spotting a pristine white android rolling toward her on the cobblestones.†   (source)
  • Everything looked pristine, no sign of packing or an urgent exit.†   (source)
  • Cinder's eyes swept along the square, noting the pristine white hover planted near the corner.†   (source)
  • Several remotes and eager reporters were camped on the pristine sidewalk.†   (source)
  • Who knew Saudi Arabia had a vast and pristine coast?†   (source)
  • DR. WILL Rudolph's once orderly and pristine penthouse apartment had ceased to exist as such.†   (source)
  • Despite its age, it was almost always as pristine as the homes in the Garden District.†   (source)
  • They glinted on the floor now, looking shiny and pristine.†   (source)
  • The air was still, the lake mirroring the pristine skies.†   (source)
  • She bared her teeth—rotten on one side, pristine white on the other.†   (source)
  • The snow we stepped through on the road was pristine, our tracks the first.†   (source)
  • It was whole, pristine, something like a scallop.†   (source)
  • He awoke an hour after dawn, in air that was pristine and cold.†   (source)
  • Sleep came for me eventually, just as the storm clouds peeled back to reveal a pristine night sky.†   (source)
  • I know she spent time wishing she were less pristine too.†   (source)
  • There on the field of pristine white is a small red stain of blood.†   (source)
  • Its pristine sleep still unbroken, undisturbed.†   (source)
  • Her face was pristine, save for a few small cuts from the flying glass.†   (source)
  • Atop these faded secrets was Sir Alistair's writing, penned in pristine script.†   (source)
  • He moved quickly now, anxious to get to the pristine inner office.†   (source)
  • It was so perfect, pristine, wrapped away in plastic and tied with a pretty bow.†   (source)
  • "And yet," Alessandro said, "your dress and grooming are not pristine."†   (source)
  • It had to be found, the pristine source in one's own self, it had to be possessed!†   (source)
  • A perfect stanza of iambic pentameter, and the first altar of science had revealed itself in pristine clarity.†   (source)
  • The trees surrounding the dome were lush and green, everything seemed pristine, but when they reached the RejoovenEsense Compound proper, the evidence of destruction and death lay all around.†   (source)
  • The interesting thing, in the photograph, was how the fragile little knock-kneed boy—smiling sweetly, pristine in his sailor suit—was also the old man who'd clasped my hand while he was dying: two separate frames, superimposed upon each other, of the same soul.†   (source)
  • A pristine state, as you might say.†   (source)
  • Pristine.†   (source)
  • For academics, the Templars' history was a precarious world where fact, lore, and misinformation had become so intertwined that extracting a pristine truth was almost impossible.†   (source)
  • The public schools were about as good as public schools got in South Florida, and for all its superficialities, Boca Raton had an excellent park system, including some of the most pristine ocean beaches in the Miami-Palm Beach metropolitan area.†   (source)
  • We saw tracks leading out the back door from the lobby, a trail where they'd dragged everything out across the pristine snow that was still falling.†   (source)
  • I could see the clouds rolling off Table Mountain and the crowds of wealthy South Africans casually peering into the pristine water at the V & A Waterfront.†   (source)
  • They watched as pristine ringlets of water circled outward around the place where the fish had passed, then faded to stillness.†   (source)
  • That clean, well-lit place of worship, which was the Congregational Church—its pristine white clapboards, its tall, clear windows that welcomed the view of branches against the sky—that was a first impression that lasted for me; it was a model of purity and no-nonsense, against which the Episcopal gloom of stone and tapestry and stained glass could pose no serious competition.†   (source)
  • The ancient wood snapped and cracked, plumes of white-hot sap boiling up into the pristine air like fireworks.†   (source)
  • Pausing in my work to overlook that pristine expanse, I felt the same profound thrill it gives me to see trees and grassland waist-high under flood water-as if the usual order of the world had shifted slightly, and entered a new phase.†   (source)
  • At the same time, to simply walk along the pristine Inner Harbor or go see the Orioles in action without understanding that all of Baltimore is not downtown would be equally misleading.†   (source)
  • It was like stepping into an Egyptian tomb, but, unlike any of the countless tombs he had seen, where the artwork was faded, chipped and broken and everything was coated in a fine layer of gritty sand, here the decorations were pristine, brilliant and complete.†   (source)
  • It was early morning as we made our way down Ninth Avenue, and a pristine carpet of white covered all the hurt and mess the city had become.†   (source)
  • Pristine.†   (source)
  • The thing looked perfect, pristine.†   (source)
  • "Now, your mother's charm will only break under two conditions: when you come of age, or" — Moody gestured around the pristine kitchen — "you no longer call this place home.†   (source)
  • Pristine workmanship.†   (source)
  • The big Hummer lurched forward, kicking up stones and dirt as he spun it in a circle and then set off down the narrow path, rocking and bouncing over the ruts, tree branches and bushes scraping its sides, scoring lines along its pristine paintwork.†   (source)
  • She continued licking her foot, restoring every scale to pristine brilliance, while first Martland, then the man-with-round-ears-who-was-Ulhart, then Roran, told a tale of blood and fire and of laughing men who refused to die at their allotted times but insisted upon continuing to fight long past when Angvard had called their names.†   (source)
  • The siege towers remained motionless, but the other engines of war stirred into action, casting their darts and stones in high, arcing paths toward the pristine white walls of the city.†   (source)
  • No doubt pristine and purchaser-ready.†   (source)
  • Roughspun tents and miserable hovels made of mud and scrap wood besmirched the pristine white marble.†   (source)
  • My mother trafficked in new houses, so of course the idea of everything being perfect and pristine, even better than before, would appeal to her.†   (source)
  • In 1986, the Tahiti Tourism Promotion Board ran an ad campaign featuring pristine beaches and the slogan "Sorry, No McDonald's."†   (source)
  • Even from a few feet away, the morning rays illuminated the clear blue depths of her eyes, like the sunlit waters of a pristine lake.†   (source)
  • Pristine hearts, livers, and whatnot.†   (source)
  • A thousand pieces of equipment in black and gray, several hundred personnel in pristine white coveralls within white-walled cubicles.†   (source)
  • These days, I notice, she likes to hum her songs, prefers this, when once she would only sing pristine notes, ring them out like clarions around the apartment.†   (source)
  • I imagine the entire school witnessing the pristine white chick drooling over the Mexicano she vowed to hate.†   (source)
  • And it was about the most beautiful trip on Earth, with wild camel herds roaming around pristine wilderness before you head down between Pakistan's incredible peaks.†   (source)
  • The kids love the machines, the balers and hoppers and long conveyors, and the parents look out the windows through the methane mist and the planes come out of the mountains and align for their approach and the trucks are arrayed in two columns outside the shed, bringing in the unsorted slop, the gut squalor of our lives, and taking the baled and bound units out into the world again, the chunky product blocks, pristine, newsprint for newsprint, tin for tin, and we all feel better when we leave.†   (source)
  • The red flowered kimono, which is not for removal, has been removed and the doll is no longer pristine and decorative.†   (source)
  • "I want none of Ser Gregor's followers," he declared as he was cutting up a pear as withered as he was, so as to make certain that its nonexistent juice did not stain his pristine purple doublet, embroidered with the white bend cotised of his House.†   (source)
  • There was something profoundly unsettling about this immaculate house with its pristine grounds and quiet, watchful servants.†   (source)
  • Al-Ahmad liked him, and trusted him enough to allow him to pilot a gleaming white yacht through the pristine canals of the city.†   (source)
  • You're used to that nonexistent foot of yours, but I haven't quite adjusted to my pristine body pillared, overhanging roof of a grave so large it looked like a minor mausoleum.†   (source)
  • She sends us out of doors—for fear we might breathe and somehow sully the pristine rooms of Spence—which suits everyone fine, as it's a particularly lovely day.†   (source)
  • In the darkness it was impossible to see, but I thought I recognized the shape and the color of his dog-eared copy of Gray's Anatomy and below that a pristine copy of some other heavy book.†   (source)
  • I saw her as I believe any good father would, with pride and wonder and the most innocent (if impossible) measure of longing, an aching hope that she stay forever pristine, unsoiled.†   (source)
  • It was hard to remember what the yard had looked like even twelve hours before, undisturbed and pristine.†   (source)
  • In fact I've had several market appraisals done in recent years, with the consensus being that my house hasn't fallen in price (as everything else in the county has, especially commercial properties like my former store), but has even appreciated somewhat; it seems that older, "vintage" homes in as pristine condition as mine rarely become available, and when they do there's not even time enough to stick the sign on the front lawn before they're sold.†   (source)
  • The air was pristine and fresh, and, despite the stench of the soft coal that fueled the engine, it smelled of evergreens and mountain laurel.†   (source)
  • She's come with pictures of the renovations, all disarmingly, exactingly right In a few minutes she will escort me out and drive me back swiftly to Bedley Run and show me the door to my prime vintage home, every last tint and scent of offending smoke steam-cleaned from the carpets, from the drapes, from the antiqued upholstery of the chairs, the place in showcase, immaculate, pristine and classic condition, appearing just as though I have not lived there every day for the last thirty years of my life.†   (source)
  • And as I make my way up the rise of the hill, it now comes fully into view, the staggered pointing of the chimneys, and the double steeples and bluish leaded panes, and the crossed beaming of the stuccoed Tudor style, my house a lovely, standing forgery, pristine enough and old enough that it passes most every muster.†   (source)
  • Such a one's visions, ideas, and inspirations come pristine from the primary springs of human life and thought.†   (source)
  • Such being his conception of the meaning of the struggle, is it not understandable that Lincoln thinks in terms of restoring in its pristine simplicity that which has gone before?†   (source)
  • to him like his clothes did, like the same coat that new might have fitted a thousand men, yet after one man has worn it for a while it fits no one else and you can tell it anywhere you see it even if all you see is a sleeve or a lapel: so that his—" ("the demon's," Shreve said) "—destiny had fitted itself to him, to his innocence, his pristine aptitude for platform drama and childlike heroic simplicity just as the fine broadcloth uniform which you could have seen on ten thousand men during those four years, which he wore when he came in the office on that afternoon thirty years later had fitted itself to the swaggering of all his gestures and to the forensic verbiage in which he state†   (source)
  • to phase as the butterfly changes once the cocoon is cleared, carrying nothing of what was into what is, leaving nothing of what is behind but eliding complete and intact and unresisting into the next avatar as the overblown rose or magnolia elides from one rich June to the next, leaving no bones, no substance, no dust of whatever dead pristine soulless rich surrender anywhere between sun and earth) but produced complete and subject to no microbe in that cloyed and scented maze of shuttered silk as if he were the delicate and perverse spirit-symbol, immortal page of the ancient immortal Lilith, entering the actual world not at the age of one second but of twelve years, the delicat†   (source)
  • ' This, precisely, is the sense of the prayers for the dead, at the moment of personal dissolution: that the individual should now return to his pristine knowledge of the world-creative divinity who during life was reflected within his heart.†   (source)
  • Carrie swallowed this story in all its pristine beauty.†   (source)
  • And here be it submitted that apparently going to corroborate the doctrine of man's fall, a doctrine now popularly ignored, it is observable that where certain virtues pristine and unadulterate peculiarly characterize anybody in the external uniform of civilization, they will upon scrutiny seem not to be derived from custom or convention, but rather to be out of keeping with these, as if indeed exceptionally transmitted from a period prior to Cain's city and citified man.†   (source)
  • Space, like time, gives birth to forgetfulness, but does so by removing an individual from all relationships and placing him in a free and pristine state—indeed, in but a moment it can turn a pedant and philistine into something like a vagabond.†   (source)
  • Know, then, innocent eastern friend, that in benighted regions of the west, where the mud is of unfathomable and sublime depth, roads are made of round rough logs, arranged transversely side by side, and coated over in their pristine freshness with earth, turf, and whatsoever may come to hand, and then the rejoicing native calleth it a road, and straightway essayeth to ride thereupon.†   (source)
  • The Roman world being then as it were shattered into a thousand fragments, each nation resumed its pristine individuality.†   (source)
  • Having frequently been in presence of the enemy, or, in other words, faced the ladies at Cheltenham and Bath, our friend, the Collector, had lost a great deal of his pristine timidity, and was now, especially when fortified with liquor, as talkative as might be.†   (source)
  • Tradition—that perishable, yet ever renewed monument of the pristine world—throws no light upon the subject.†   (source)
  • It grovelled helpless on the ground, even while his intellectual faculties retained their pristine strength, or had perhaps acquired a morbid energy, which disease only could have given them.†   (source)
  • This old, faded garment, with all its pristine brilliancy extinct, seemed, in some indescribable way, to translate the wearer's untold misfortune, and make it perceptible to the beholder's eye.†   (source)
  • But, by degrees, watch-chains, necklaces, parti-colored scarfs, embroidered bodices, velvet vests, elegantly worked stockings, striped gaiters, and silver buckles for the shoes, all disappeared; and Gaspard Caderousse, unable to appear abroad in his pristine splendor, had given up any further participation in the pomps and vanities, both for himself and wife, although a bitter feeling of envious discontent filled his mind as the sound of mirth and merry music from the joyous revellers reached even the miserable hostelry to which he still clung, more for the shelter than the profit it afforded.†   (source)
  • Forty at least might have been seen at these times in the large room, forming a ring round the margin of the great sixteen-legged oak table, like the monolithic circle of Stonehenge in its pristine days.†   (source)
  • 'Ah,' continued my father, still frowning, 'their idolized emperor treated these madmen as they deserved; he called them 'food for powder,' which was precisely all they were good for; and I am delighted to see that the present government have adopted this salutary principle with all its pristine vigor; if Algiers were good for nothing but to furnish the means of carrying so admirable an idea into practice, it would be an acquisition well worthy of struggling to obtain.†   (source)
  • On every side in Europe we hear voices complaining of the absence of religious faith, and inquiring the means of restoring to religion some remnant of its pristine authority.†   (source)
  • It was a curious, and, as some people thought, an ominous fact, that, very soon after the workmen began their operations, the spring of water, above mentioned, entirely lost the deliciousness of its pristine quality.†   (source)
  • At that epoch of pristine simplicity, however, matters of even slighter public interest, and of far less intrinsic weight than the welfare of Hester and her child, were strangely mixed up with the deliberations of legislators and acts of state.†   (source)
  • The French Canadians, who have faithfully preserved the traditions of their pristine manners, are already embarrassed for room upon their small territory; and this little community, which has so recently begun to exist, will shortly be a prey to the calamities incident to old nations.†   (source)
  • Leaving the picnic basket in the kitchens, I returned to the late Beaton's surgery, now dustless and pristine after a visitation by Mrs. Fitz's energetic assistants.†   (source)
  • —In all his pristine beauty, Mr Power said.†   (source)
  • And the separation is essential to the preservation of that institution in its pristine purity.†   (source)
  • And so, as I am not and, so far as one can judge, cannot be enchanted, she it is that is enchanted, that is smitten, that is altered, changed, and transformed; in her have my enemies revenged themselves upon me, and for her shall I live in ceaseless tears, until I see her in her pristine state.†   (source)
  • —If thou couldst, doctor, cast
    The water of my land, find her disease,
    And purge it to a sound and pristine health,
    I would applaud thee to the very echo,
    That should applaud again.†   (source)
  • Thus fable reports that the fair Grimalkin, whom Venus, at the desire of a passionate lover, converted from a cat into a fine woman, no sooner perceived a mouse than, mindful of her former sport, and still retaining her pristine nature, she leaped from the bed of her husband to pursue the little animal.†   (source)
  • Without exerting the means of corruption with equal success on the House of Representatives, the opposition of that coequal branch of the government would inevitably defeat the attempt; and without corrupting the people themselves, a succession of new representatives would speedily restore all things to their pristine order.†   (source)
  • To thee, great hero who all praise transcends, La Mancha's lustre and Iberia's star, Don Quixote, wise as brave, to thee I say— For peerless Dulcinea del Toboso Her pristine form and beauty to regain, 'T is needful that thy esquire Sancho shall, On his own sturdy buttocks bared to heaven, Three thousand and three hundred lashes lay, And that they smart and sting and hurt him well.†   (source)
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