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Puritans
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    As the two wayfarers came within the precincts of the town, the children of the Puritans looked up from their play,—or what passed for play with those sombre little urchins—and spoke gravely one to another.  (source)
    Puritans = Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries wanted more purity and less ritual in worship, and who stressed hard work above pleasure
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    In Puritan England, about 300 years ago, it was against the law to wear the color red.  (source)
    Puritan = any of the English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought there were too many rituals in worship and who stressed hard work above pleasure
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    She's only a few years older than your brother but acts like a Puritan schoolmarm.  (source)
    Puritan = an English Protestant who in the 16th and 17th centuries stressed hard work above pleasure
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    Jonathan Edwards, a Puritan minister, resolved never to do anything out of revenge.  (source)
    Puritan = an English Protestant who in the 16th and 17th centuries wanted more purity and less ritual in worship, and who stressed hard work above pleasure
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    The Puritans, only a few years after him, saw failure in business—ruined crops, bankruptcy, financial mismanagement, even disease in one's herd—as clear evidence of God's displeasure and therefore of moral shortcomings.  (source)
    Puritans = English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought there were too many rituals in worship and who stressed hard work above pleasure
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    The sexual puritanism of the Party was not imposed upon them.†  (source)
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    He was a child of the Puritan work ethic.  (source)
    Puritan = of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries who stressed hard work above pleasure
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    These people were something Germanic and sectarian, crossbred with seventh-generation Puritans — an industrious but fervent mix that produced, in addition to the usual collection of virtuous, lumpen farmers, three circuit riders, two inept land speculators, and one petty embezzler — chancers with a visionary streak and one eye on the horizon.  (source)
    Puritans = English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries wanted more purity and less ritual in worship, and who stressed hard work above pleasure
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    Since the days when, as a schoolboy, I used to bicycle round the neighboring parishes, rubbing brasses and photographing fonts, I had nursed a love of architecture, but, though in opinion I had made that easy leap, characteristic of my generation, from the puritanism of Ruskin to the puritanism of Roger Fry, my sentiments at heart were insular and medieval.†  (source)
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    In at least some cases, the menfolk's notions of propriety were markedly more European than the surrounding Yankee Puritan norm.  (source)
    Puritan = related to English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries wanted more purity and less ritual in worship, and who stressed hard work above pleasure
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    The Puritans, who are few amongst us now, and sorely pressed, had the running of this village then.  (source)
    Puritans = English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought there were too many rituals in worship and who stressed hard work above pleasure
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    But the forties were really far worse, a particularly ghastly period for Eros, shakily bridging as they did the time between the puritanism of our forefathers and the arrival of public pornography.†  (source)
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    The school had been largely rebuilt with a massive bequest from an oil family some years before in a peculiar style of Puritan grandeur, as though Versailles had been modified for the needs of a Sunday school.†  (source)
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