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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
  • BUT IT IS HARD TO SAY WHETHER THIS BOORISH BEHAVIOR IS WORSE OR BETTER THAN THE GESTAPO TACTICS OF OUR PURITAN CHAPERONES.†   (source)
  • We're puritans, that's why.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • I've always been a puritan in this, so I count myself an unreliable witness.†   (source)
  • For reasons he cannot explain or necessarily understand, these ancient Puritan spirits, these very first immigrants to America, these bearers of unthinkable, obsolete names, have spoken to him, so much so that in spite of his mother's disgust he refuses to throw the rubbings away.†   (source)
  • In Albion's Seed, Fischer argues that there were four distinct British migrations to America in its first 150 years: first the Puritans, in the 1630s, who came from East Anglia to Massachusetts; then the Cavaliers and indentured in America rest of the country.†   (source)
  • Massachusetts tried to kill off the Puritans, but they combined; they set up a communal society which, in the beginning, was little more than an armed camp with an autocratic and very devoted leadership.†   (source)
  • Cozily, he slipped one arm through hers, and with the other reached over and patted her on the hand: a little Puritan-looking devil of a man, thin, amiable, spry.†   (source)
  • A sort of radical Puritan or something.†   (source)
  • Ida professed herself very struck by the change in Eric —she meant by this that she disapproved of surprises and that Eric had surprised her—and the implacable, unaccountable Puritan in her disapproved of his new and astonishing affair.†   (source)
  • Later, when the Puritans settled, well ….†   (source)
  • Their simple belief in a messianic, puritan Islam which had been drummed into them by simple village mullahs was the only prop they could hold on to and which gave their lives some meaning.†   (source)
  • She was lonely, surrounded by hypocritical Puritans, and married to a completely creepy, absentee English guy.†   (source)
  • The word fidelity reminded her of her father, a small-town puritan, who spent his Sundays painting away at canvases of woodland sunsets and roses in vases.†   (source)
  • All those red-state puritans coming by the boatload, never once suspecting that Old Libs hasn't got panties on.†   (source)
  • Maggie America was founded on religious freedom, on the separation of church and state, and yet I will be the first to tell you that we're not much better off than those Puritans were in the 1770s over in England.†   (source)
  • Susie Gresham, Mother Gresham, guardian of the hot young women on the puritan benches who couldn't see your Jordan's water for their private steam; you, relic of slavery whom the campus loved but did not understand, aged, of slavery, yet bearer of something warm and vital and all-enduring, of which in that island of shame we were not ashamed-it was to you on the final row I directed my rush of sound, and it was you of whom I thought with shame and regret as I waited for the ceremony to…†   (source)
  • "Puritans," grumbled Lucia, returning both her robes and facial hair back to normal.†   (source)
  • He's such a rigid Puritan.†   (source)
  • He would stride the daises and the stages with his voice strong and clear, unafraid to speak the language like a Puritan and like a Chinaman and like every boat person in between.†   (source)
  • 'He means there's a certain puritan code over here.†   (source)
  • I tell everyone Margaret's the puritan, I'm the pagan.†   (source)
  • Poor old Jim was something of a puritan.†   (source)
  • We're all basically puritans.†   (source)
  • The effect of these two inventions upon human society could only be described as devastating, and they had swept away the last remnants of the Puritan aberration.†   (source)
  • You guys, you're like Puritans are about the Bible.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • I have a puritan strain that might well have done so.†   (source)
  • I lectured her all the way to Washington about our colonial beginnings, the Puritan tradition, the Mayflower Compact, and the ancient origins of slavery.†   (source)
  • And the sexual revolution is a step in the wrong direction--an anti-puritanism which has only disastrous results.†   (source)
  • These are not merely the sentiments of a courageous Senator, they are also the words of a Puritan statesman.†   (source)
  • At length she paused before the portrait of the stern old Puritan, her ancestor, and the founder of the house.   (source)
    Puritan = one of the Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought there were too many rituals in worship and who stressed hard work above pleasure
  • Luther, according to the scandal of his monkish enemies, was a brat of that hellish breed; nor was Pearl the only child to whom this inauspicious origin was assigned among the New England Puritans.   (source)
    Puritans = Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought there were too many rituals in worship and who stressed hard work above pleasure
  • It was his custom, too, as it has been that of many other pious Puritans, to fast—not however, like them, in order to purify the body, and render it the fitter medium of celestial illumination—but rigorously, and until his knees trembled beneath him, as an act of penance.   (source)
  • The Puritans looked on, and, if they smiled, were none the less inclined to pronounce the child a demon offspring, from the indescribable charm of beauty and eccentricity that shone through her little figure, and sparkled with its activity.   (source)
  • Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her attire and mien, and with the infant at her bosom, an object to remind him of the image of Divine Maternity, which so many illustrious painters have vied with one another to represent; something which should remind him, indeed, but only by contrast, of that sacred image of sinless motherhood, whose infant was to redeem the world.   (source)
  • The truth was, that the little Puritans, being of the most intolerant brood that ever lived, had got a vague idea of something outlandish, unearthly, or at variance with ordinary fashions, in the mother and child, and therefore scorned them in their hearts, and not unfrequently reviled them with their tongues.   (source)
  • Into this festal season of the year—as it already was, and continued to be during the greater part of two centuries—the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction.   (source)
  • Doubtless, however, either of these stern and black-browed Puritans would have thought it quite a sufficient retribution for his sins that, after so long a lapse of years, the old trunk of the family tree, with so much venerable moss upon it, should have borne, as its topmost bough, an idler like myself.   (source)
  • Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew her forcibly into her arms, confronting the old Puritan magistrate with almost a fierce expression.   (source)
    Puritan = related to Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought there were too many rituals in worship and who stressed hard work above pleasure
  • But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn.   (source)
    Puritan = related to English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought there were too many rituals in worship and who stressed hard work above pleasure
  • The brilliancy might have be fitted Aladdin's palace rather than the mansion of a grave old Puritan ruler.   (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
  • It was—we blush to tell it—it was to stop short in the road, and teach some very wicked words to a knot of little Puritan children who were playing there, and had but just begun to talk.   (source)
    Puritan = related to Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought there were too many rituals in worship and who stressed hard work above pleasure
  • Oftentimes, this Protestant and Puritan divine had plied it on his own shoulders, laughing bitterly at himself the while, and smiting so much the more pitilessly because of that bitter laugh.   (source)
  • She might, and not improbably would, have suffered death from the stern tribunals of the period, for attempting to undermine the foundations of the Puritan establishment.   (source)
  • Ay, ay, you must have known it; for he tells me he is of your party, and a close friend to the gentleman you spoke of—he that is in peril from these sour old Puritan rulers.   (source)
  • Continually, and in a thousand other ways, did she feel the innumerable throbs of anguish that had been so cunningly contrived for her by the undying, the ever-active sentence of the Puritan tribunal.   (source)
  • A party of Indians—in their savage finery of curiously embroidered deerskin robes, wampum-belts, red and yellow ochre, and feathers, and armed with the bow and arrow and stone-headed spear—stood apart with countenances of inflexible gravity, beyond what even the Puritan aspect could attain.   (source)
  • In pursuance of this resolve, he took up his residence in the Puritan town as Roger Chillingworth, without other introduction than the learning and intelligence of which he possessed more than a common measure.   (source)
  • Their immediate posterity, the generation next to the early emigrants, wore the blackest shade of Puritanism, and so darkened the national visage with it, that all the subsequent years have not sufficed to clear it up.   (source)
    Puritanism = a religious movement of the 16th and 17th centuries to purify Protestant Christianity of rituals of the Catholic Church and which stressed hard work above pleasure
  • Not improbably this circumstance wrought a very material change in the public estimation; and had the mother and child remained here, little Pearl at a marriageable period of life might have mingled her wild blood with the lineage of the devoutest Puritan among them all.   (source)
    Puritan = Protestant who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought there were too many rituals in worship and who stressed hard work above pleasure
  • The pine-trees, aged, black, and solemn, and flinging groans and other melancholy utterances on the breeze, needed little transformation to figure as Puritan elders; the ugliest weeds of the garden were their children, whom Pearl smote down and uprooted most unmercifully.   (source)
    Puritan = related to Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought there were too many rituals in worship and who stressed hard work above pleasure
  • Lastly, in lieu of these shifting scenes, came back the rude market-place of the Puritan, settlement, with all the townspeople assembled, and levelling their stern regards at Hester Prynne—yes, at herself—who stood on the scaffold of the pillory, an infant on her arm, and the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom.   (source)
  • It may seem marvellous that, with the world before her—kept by no restrictive clause of her condemnation within the limits of the Puritan settlement, so remote and so obscure—free to return to her birth-place, or to any other European land, and there hide her character and identity under a new exterior, as completely as if emerging into another state of being—and having also the passes of the dark, inscrutable forest open to her, where the wildness of her nature might assimilate itself…   (source)
  • Thus the Puritan elders in their black cloaks, starched bands, and steeple-crowned hats, smiled not unbenignantly at the clamour and rude deportment of these jolly seafaring men; and it excited neither surprise nor animadversion when so reputable a citizen as old Roger Chillingworth, the physician, was seen to enter the market-place in close and familiar talk with the commander of the questionable vessel.   (source)
  • My mom said how the first white people to settle here were Puritans.†   (source)
  • This is puritan country; we're born with guilt or quickly learn it.†   (source)
  • Something of the spirit of the old Puritan diarists took hold.†   (source)
  • How sure are you about that Puritan stuff, Lillian?†   (source)
  • That's the immense selfishness of the Puritan.†   (source)
  • Don't you hear me, you stainless Puritan?†   (source)
  • —John Quincy maintained the unflinching and inflexible bearing which became his Puritan ancestry.†   (source)
  • Robert Scurvham had founded, during the reign of Charles I, a sect of most pure Puritans.†   (source)
  • Remember that Puritans were utterly devoted, like literary critics, to the Word.†   (source)
  • The airwaves would be filled with the voices of anti-Masonic groups, fundamentalists, and conspiracy theorists spewing hatred and fear, launching a Puritan witch hunt all over again.†   (source)
  • Such puritan aids are supplied.†   (source)
  • Apart from Andy—cryptic, isolated, self-sufficient, incapable of dishonesty and completely lacking in both malice and charisma—the other Barbours, even Todd, all had something slightly uncanny about them, a watchful, sly amalgam of decorum and mischief that made it all too easy to imagine their forebears gathering in the forest by night, casting off their Puritan garb to frolic by the pagan bonfire.†   (source)
  • I feel that my own religious confusion, and stubbornness, owe much to my ancestor, who suffered not only the criticisms of the English church before he left for the new world; once he arrived, he ran afoul of his fellow Puritans in Boston.†   (source)
  • He and those who followed had settled in the wilderness of this province when they broke with the Puritans of New England.†   (source)
  • It was a move that disturbed my grandmother, because we Wheelwrights had been in the Congregational Church ever since we got over being Puritans ("ever since we almost got over being Puritans," my grandmother used to say, because—in her opinion—Puritanism had never entirely relinquished its hold on us Wheelwrights).†   (source)
  • Lazarus Twisse, the leader of the Puritan sect—the radical sect—which broke off or, more accurately, was cut off, from the godly in Massachusetts.†   (source)
  • Thank Heavens for Hurd's Church; that was the unfortunate name of the nondenominational church at Gravesend Academy—it was named after the academy's founder, that childless Puritan, the Rev. Emery Hurd himself.†   (source)
  • According to Wall's History of Gravesend, N.H., the Rev. John Wheelwright had been a good minister of the English church until he began to "question the authority of certain dogmas"; he became a Puritan, and was thereafter "silenced by the ecclesiastical powers, for nonconformity."†   (source)
  • Gravesend Academy was founded in 1781 by the Rev. Emery Hurd, a follower of the original Wheelwright's original beliefs, a childless Puritan with an ability—according to Wall—for "Oration on the advantages of Learning and its happy Tendency to promote Virtue and Piety."†   (source)
  • It was a move that disturbed my grandmother, because we Wheelwrights had been in the Congregational Church ever since we got over being Puritans ("ever since we almost got over being Puritans," my grandmother used to say, because—in her opinion—Puritanism had never entirely relinquished its hold on us Wheelwrights).†   (source)
  • But the Puritans liked religious freedom so much they kept it all to themselves—often persecuting people who didn't believe what they did.†   (source)
  • She was slipping out of her coat now, looking earnestly into my face, and I thought, Is she a Salvationist, a Puritan-with-reverse-English?†   (source)
  • It was, in all, a declaration of Adams's faith in education as the bulwark of the good society, the old abiding faith of his Puritan forebears.†   (source)
  • And for all he may have strayed from the hidebound preachments of his forebears, Adams remained enough of a Puritan to believe anything worthy must carry a measure of pain.†   (source)
  • Adams's objections stemmed not so much from a Puritan background—as often said—but from the ideal of republican virtue, the classic Roman stoic emphasis on simplicity and the view that decadence inevitably followed luxury, age-old themes replete in the writings of his favorite Romans.†   (source)
  • Not a stainless-steel Puritan like you.†   (source)
  • They were part of the great Puritan migration, Dissenters from the Church of England who, in the decade following the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, crossed the North Atlantic intent on making a new City of God, some twenty thousand people, most of whom came as families.†   (source)
  • Oh, stop playing the Puritan!†   (source)
  • As early as 1700, before Jefferson or anyone in Congress was born, Judge Samuel Sewall of Boston, an eminent Puritan known for his role as a judge in the Salem witch trials, had declared in a tract called The Selling of Joseph, that "all men, as they are sons of Adam …. have equal right unto liberty," and saw no justification, moral or economic, for making property of human beings.†   (source)
  • "But you see, if there's an ounce of truth in all this I'm saying, our religion--our puritan ethic in one form or another, is at the heart of the American problem.†   (source)
  • He was such a puritan.†   (source)
  • The Puritan loved liberty and he loved the law; he had a genius for determining the precise point where the rights of the state and the rights of the individual could be reconciled.†   (source)
  • Altogether, a most anti-clerical scene, perhaps intended as a sop to the Puritans of the time (a useless gesture since none of them ever went to plays, regarding them for some reason as immoral).†   (source)
  • His guiding star was the principle of Puritan statesmanship his father had laid down many years before: "The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God."†   (source)
  • Noting in his diary that "the qualities of mind most peculiarly called for are firmness, perseverance, patience, coolness and forbearance," John Quincy Adams, like any Puritan gentleman, set out for Washington determined to meet the standards of self-discipline which he had imposed upon himself.†   (source)
  • No Puritan ever got that violent.†   (source)
  • As a child in a tightly knit Puritan family, John Quincy had been taught by his mother to emulate his famous father; and as a Senator, when colleagues and friends deserted him on every side, it was to his father that he turned for support and approval.†   (source)
  • Harsh and intractable, like the rocky New England countryside which colored his attitude toward the world at large, the Puritan gave meaning, consistency and character to the early days of the AmericanRepublic.†   (source)
  • …scorned "masses" as property qualifications for voting were removed, transmitted the political pressures of their own constituents to their Senators through "instructions" (a device which in this country apparently had originated in the old Puritan town meetings, which had instructed their deputies to the Massachusetts General Court on such measures as "removing the Capital from the wicked city of Boston," taking any steps possible "to exterminate the legal profession," andpreventing…†   (source)
  • Long before those discouraging months in the Senate when his mail was filled with abuse from the Massachusetts Federalists, long before he had even entered the Senate, he had noted in his diary the dangers that confronted a Puritan entering politics: "I feel strong temptation to plunge into political controversy," he had written, "but …. a politician in this country must be the man of a party.†   (source)
  • The intellect of the Puritan—of John Quincy Adams and his forebears—was, as George Frisbie Hoar has said: fit for exact ethical discussion, clear in seeing general truths, active, unresting, fond of inquiry and debate, but penetrated and restrained by a shrewd common sense…… He had a tenacity of purpose, a lofty and inflexible courage, an unbending will, which never qualified or flinched before human antagonist, or before exile, torture, or death.†   (source)
  • I am almost inclined to think that I inherited a streak of the puritan, of the Clapham Sect.†   (source)
  • The lewd Puritan touch, obviously, and it grows more marked as we go on.†   (source)
  • The sexual puritanism of the Party was not imposed upon them.†   (source)
  • Unlike Winston, she had grasped the inner meaning of the Party's sexual puritanism.†   (source)
  • The parables–this is where Tolstoy differs from the average vulgar puritan–must themselves be works of art, but pleasure and curiosity must be excluded from them.†   (source)
  • I am—essentially—such an earnest, single-toned Puritan that I must allow myself another color occasionally—to relieve the monotony.†   (source)
  • He riveted them to the pews with images of the mythological ordeal; for though the Puritan prohibited the graven image, yet he allowed himself the verbal.†   (source)
  • Yes, I can imagine how Bon led up to it, to the shock: the skill, the calculation, preparing Henry's puritan mind as he would have prepared a cramped and rocky field and planted it and raised the crop which he wanted.†   (source)
  • An indignant mem sahib in Majorca recounted the tale of the Puritan Emily Brent and her wretched servant girl.†   (source)
  • It was as though the very cold and uncompromising conviction which propped him upright, as it were, between puritan and cavalier, had become not defeated and not discouraged, but wiser.†   (source)
  • Goddam Puritans," Bill said.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • He pointed his finger once more, and a tall man, soberly clad in Puritan garb, with the burning gaze of the fanatic, stalked into the room and took his judge's place.†   (source)
  • All that, your patient would probably classify as "Puritanism"--and may I remark in passing that the value we have given to that word is one of the really solid triumphs of the last hundred years?†   (source)
  • Most often this resentment toward culture is to be found where the dissatisfaction with society is a reactionary dissatisfaction which expresses itself in revivalism and puritanism, and latest of all, in fascism.†   (source)
  • ': a dialogue without words, speech, which would fix and then remove without obliterating one line the picture, this background, leaving the background, the plate prepared and innocent again: the plate docile, with that puritan's humility toward anything which is a matter of sense rather than logic, fact, the man, the struggling and suffocating heart behind it saying I will believe!†   (source)
  • …corruption subtly anew by putting into Henry's mind the notion of one man of the world speaking to another, that Henry knew that Bon believed that Henry would know even from a disjointed word what Bon was talking about, and Henry the puritan who must show nothing at all rather than surprise or incomprehension; —a facade shuttered and blank, drowsing in steamy morning sunlight, invested by the bland and cryptic voice with something of secret and curious and unimaginable delights.†   (source)
  • …corruptor, intended for it: that next picture, following the fixation and acceptance of which the mentor would say again, perhaps with words now, still watching the sober and thoughtful face but still secure in his knowledge and trust in that puritan heritage which must show disapproval instead of surprise or even despair and nothing at all rather than have the disapprobation construed as surprise or despair: 'But even this is not it': and Henry, 'You mean, it is still higher than…†   (source)
  • …of him who, begetting him, owned him body and soul to sell (if he chose) like a calf or puppy or sheep; and the mentor watching again, perhaps even the gambler now thinking Have I won or lost? as they emerged and returned to Bon's rooms, for that while impotent even with talk, shrewdness, no longer counting upon that puritan character which must show neither surprise nor despair, having to count now (if on anything) on the corruption itself, the love; he could not even say, 'Well?†   (source)
  • …wanted to believe yet did not see how he could, being carried by the friend, the mentor, through one of those inscrutable and curiously lifeless doorways like that before which he had seen the horse or the trap, and so into a place which to his puritan's provincial mind all of morality was upside down and all of honor perished—a place created for and by voluptuousness, the abashless and unabashed senses, and the country boy with his simple and erstwhile untroubled code in which females…†   (source)
  • He came into that isolated puritan country household almost like Sutpen himself came into Jefferson: apparently complete, without background or past or childhood—a man a little older than his actual years and enclosed and surrounded by a sort of Scythian glitter, who seems to have seduced the country brother and sister without any effort or particular desire to do so, who caused all the pother and uproar yet from the moment when he realised that Sutpen was going to prevent the marriage…†   (source)
  • …even his share of the cargo, he and the son-in-law had parted) who had entered hers and her family's life before she was born with the abruptness of a tornado, done irrevocable and incalculable damage, and gone on—a grim mausoleum air of puritan righteousness and outraged female vindictiveness in which Miss Rosa's childhood (that aged and ancient and timeless absence of youth which consisted of a Cassandra-like listening beyond closed doors, of lurking in dim halls filled with that…†   (source)
  • I can imagine him, with his puritan heritage—that heritage peculiarly Anglo-Saxon—of fierce proud mysticism and that ability to be ashamed of ignorance and inexperience, in that city foreign and paradoxical, with its atmosphere at once fatal and languorous, at once feminine and steel-hard—this grim humorless yokel out of a granite heritage where even the houses, let alone clothing and conduct, are built in the image of a jealous and sadistic Jehovah, put suddenly down in a place whose…†   (source)
  • …ladies, some of whom were now grandmothers, whom the aunt had tried to force to attend the wedding twenty years ago, and, to the meagre possibilities which the town offered, shopping—as though she had succeeded at last in evacuating not only the puritan heritage but reality itself; had immolated outrageous husband and incomprehensible children into shades; escaped at last into a world of pure illusion in which, safe from any harm, she moved, lived, from attitude to attitude against her…†   (source)
  • …seek ordination as a Methodist minister—a Methodist steward, a merchant not only of modest position and circumstances but who already had a wife and family of his own, let alone a dependent mother and sister, to support out of the proceeds of a business which he had brought to Jefferson ten years ago in a single wagon—a man with a name for absolute and undeviating and even puritan uprightness in a country and time of lawless opportunity, who neither drank nor gambled nor even hunted.†   (source)
  • …goatlike: this seen by Henry quickly, exposed quickly and then removed, the mentor's voice still bland, pleasant, cryptic, postulating still the fact of one man of the world talking to another about something they both understand, depending upon, counting upon still, the puritan's provincial horror of revealing surprise or ignorance, who knew Henry so much better than Henry knew him, and Henry not showing either, suppressing still that first cry of terror and grief, /will believe.†   (source)
  • Romance and Asceticism, Amorism and Puritanism are equally unreal in the great Philistine world.†   (source)
  • Ah, well, doubtless you had Puritan ancestors.†   (source)
  • You are a puritan and in your heart you despise sensual pleasures.†   (source)
  • Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.†   (source)
  • She still had her high moral sense, inherited from generations of Puritans.†   (source)
  • Remember to what a point your Puritanism in England has brought you.†   (source)
  • Don't you never use a word like that again!" wailed the outraged Puritan.†   (source)
  • She was puritan, like her father, high-minded, and really stern.†   (source)
  • Enjolras, as the reader knows, had something of the Spartan and of the Puritan in his composition.†   (source)
  • "What a Puritan you are!" said he; "that happens every day."†   (source)
  • The iron-hearted Puritan, the relentless persecutor, the grasping and strong-willed man was dead!†   (source)
  • You have said Puritans have but one word.†   (source)
  • Puritanism, as I have already remarked, was scarcely less a political than a religious doctrine.†   (source)
  • Probably king, prelate, and puritan, all found their own account in it.†   (source)
  • The picture of the Puritan Colonel shivered on the wall.†   (source)
  • Felton was a Puritan; he abandoned the hand of this woman to kiss her feet.†   (source)
  • It is my Puritan ancestor, who hangs yonder in the parlor.†   (source)
  • Come, come, calm yourself, Madame Puritan, or I'll remove you to a dungeon.†   (source)
  • "Good!" murmured Milady; "the austere Puritan lies."†   (source)
  • A Puritan only adores virgins, and he adores them by clasping his hands.†   (source)
  • As for the lives of one's neighbours, if one wishes to be a prig or a Puritan, one can flaunt one's moral views about them, but they are not one's concern.†   (source)
  • Amory had rather a Puritan conscience.†   (source)
  • Yet to remain here after this was all but impossible, too, for the attitude of Grace as well as the Newtons—particularly Mrs. Newton, Grace's sister—was that of the early Puritans or Friends who had caught a "brother" or "sister" in a great sin.†   (source)
  • Right here, I think, entered the austere conscience of my Puritan ancestry, impelling me toward lurid deeds and sanctioning even murder as right conduct.†   (source)
  • The churches have always done it, and the political orators—and I suppose I do it when I call Mrs. Bogart a 'Puritan' and Mr. Stowbody a 'capitalist.'†   (source)
  • The Puritans are always denouncing books that inflame lust; what shall we say of books that inflame the viler passions of avarice and pride?†   (source)
  • He was a bright and happy Christian, a romping optimist who laughed away sin and doubt, a joyful Puritan who with annoying virility preached the doctrine of his tiny sect, the Sanctification Brotherhood, that to have a beautiful church was almost as damnable as the debaucheries of card-playing.†   (source)
  • His power was the greater because he was not hindered by scruples, by either the vice or the virtue of the older Puritan tradition.†   (source)
  • The pageantry of his disillusion took shape in a world-old procession of Prophets, Athenians, Martyrs, Saints, Scientists, Don Juans, Jesuits, Puritans, Fausts, Poets, Pacifists; like costumed alumni at a college reunion they streamed before him as their dreams, personalities, and creeds had in turn thrown colored lights on his soul; each had tried to express the glory of life and the tremendous significance of man; each had boasted of synchronizing what had gone before into his own…†   (source)
  • In the preface to my Plays for Puritans I explained the predicament of our contemporary English drama, forced to deal almost exclusively with cases of sexual attraction, and yet forbidden to exhibit the incidents of that attraction or even to discuss its nature.†   (source)
  • Yes: there was to be, as Lord Henry had prophesied, a new Hedonism that was to recreate life, and to save it from that harsh, uncomely puritanism that is having, in our own day, its curious revival.†   (source)
  • Your Middlewest is double-Puritan—prairie Puritan on top of New England Puritan; bluff frontiersman on the surface, but in its heart it still has the ideal of Plymouth Rock in a sleet-storm.†   (source)
  • Athos was a gentleman, punctilious in points of honor; and there were in the plan which our lover had devised for Milady, he was sure, certain things that would not obtain the assent of this Puritan.†   (source)
  • But the town knew worse troubles even than the floods,—troubles of the civil wars, when it was a continual fighting-place, where first Puritans thanked God for the blood of the Loyalists, and then Loyalists thanked God for the blood of the Puritans.†   (source)
  • I have been as well acquainted with your family as with ever a one among the Puritans; and that's no trifle to say.†   (source)
  • She was not a daughter of the Puritans, but for all that she believed in such a thing as chastity and even as decency.†   (source)
  • Those simple edifices might have been permitted to retain all of sacred embellishment that their Puritan founders had bestowed, even though the mighty structure of St. Peter's had sent its spoils to the fire of this terrible sacrifice.†   (source)
  • * The periodical visits of St. Nicholas, or Santa Claus, as he is termed, were never forgotten among the inhabitants of New York, until the emigration from New England brought in the opinions and usages of the Puritans, like the "bon homme de Noel." he arrives at each Christmas.†   (source)
  • Raveloe lay low among the bushy trees and the rutted lanes, aloof from the currents of industrial energy and Puritan earnestness: the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families, and the poor thought that the rich were entirely in the right of it to lead a jolly life; besides, their feasting caused a multiplication of orts, which were the heirlooms of the poor.†   (source)
  • The Puritans who founded the American republics were not only enemies to amusements, but they professed an especial abhorrence for the stage.†   (source)
  • There was no modern architectural decoration in it; it looked, indeed, as if none had been attempted since the Puritans whitewashed the mediaeval saints and histories on the wall.†   (source)
  • To look at the tawny brawn of his lithe snaky limbs, you would almost have credited the superstitions of some of the earlier Puritans, and half-believed this wild Indian to be a son of the Prince of the Powers of the Air.†   (source)
  • The Puritans,[528] a growing and energetic party and the religious among the Anglican Church,[529] would suppress them.†   (source)
  • Here, in the quiet of Boldwood's parlour, where everything that was not grave was extraneous, and where the atmosphere was that of a Puritan Sunday lasting all the week, the letter and its dictum changed their tenor from the thoughtlessness of their origin to a deep solemnity, imbibed from their accessories now.†   (source)
  • Lydgate was no Puritan, but he did not care for play, and winning money at it had always seemed a meanness to him; besides, he had an ideal of life which made this subservience of conduct to the gaining of small sums thoroughly hateful to him.†   (source)
  • A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle.†   (source)
  • Puritanism was not merely a religious doctrine, but it corresponded in many points with the most absolute democratic and republican theories.†   (source)
  • But let them conceive one more historical contrast: the gigantic broken revelations of that Imperial and Papal city thrust abruptly on the notions of a girl who had been brought up in English and Swiss Puritanism, fed on meagre Protestant histories and on art chiefly of the hand-screen sort; a girl whose ardent nature turned all her small allowance of knowledge into principles, fusing her actions into their mould, and whose quick emotions gave the most abstract things the quality of a…†   (source)
  • The plum-pudding was of the same handsome roundness as ever, and came in with the symbolic blue flames around it, as if it had been heroically snatched from the nether fires, into which it had been thrown by dyspeptic Puritans; the dessert was as splendid as ever, with its golden oranges, brown nuts, and the crystalline light and dark of apple-jelly and damson cheese; in all these things Christmas was as it had always been since Tom could remember; it was only distinguished, it by…†   (source)
  • Sometimes his book contains fine passages, and true and profound reflections, such as the following:— "Before the arrival of the Puritans," says he (vol.i.chap. iv.†   (source)
  • The people had tasted this new joy; and, as we could not hope to suppress newspapers now,—no, not by the strongest party,—neither then could king, prelate, or puritan,—alone or united, suppress an organ, which was ballad, epic, newspaper, caucus, lecture, Punch,[530] and library, at the same time.†   (source)
  • The emigrants, or, as they deservedly styled themselves, the Pilgrims, belonged to that English sect the austerity of whose principles had acquired for them the name of Puritans.†   (source)
  • The third chapter of the first volume is particularly worthy of attention for the valuable details it affords on the political and religious principles of the Puritans, on the causes of their emigration, and on their laws.†   (source)
  • In Mr. Brooke the hereditary strain of Puritan energy was clearly in abeyance; but in his niece Dorothea it glowed alike through faults and virtues, turning sometimes into impatience of her uncle's talk or his way of "letting things be" on his estate, and making her long all the more for the time when she would be of age and have some command of money for generous schemes.†   (source)
  • …to do with it: the Brooke connections, though not exactly aristocratic, were unquestionably "good:" if you inquired backward for a generation or two, you would not find any yard-measuring or parcel-tying forefathers—anything lower than an admiral or a clergyman; and there was even an ancestor discernible as a Puritan gentleman who served under Cromwell, but afterwards conformed, and managed to come out of all political troubles as the proprietor of a respectable family estate.†   (source)
  • It must not be imagined that the piety of the Puritans was of a merely speculative kind, or that it took no cognizance of the course of worldly affairs.†   (source)
  • In his account of the motives which led the Puritans to seek an asylum beyond seas, he says:—"The God of Heaven served, as it were, a summons upon the spirits of his people in the English nation, stirring up the spirits of thousands which never saw the faces of each other, with a most unanimous inclination to leave all the pleasant accommodations of their native country, and go over a terrible ocean, into a more terrible desert, for the pure enjoyment of all his ordinances.†   (source)
  • And what worthier candidate,—more wise and learned, more noted for philanthropic liberality, truer to safe principles, tried oftener by public trusts, more spotless in private character, with a larger stake in the common welfare, and deeper grounded, by hereditary descent, in the faith and practice of the Puritans,—what man can be presented for the suffrage of the people, so eminently combining all these claims to the chief-rulership as Judge Pyncheon here before us?†   (source)
  • Several attempts have been made to diffuse knowledge amongst the Indians, without controlling their wandering propensities; by the Jesuits in Canada, and by the Puritans in New England; *k but none of these endeavors were crowned by any lasting success.†   (source)
  • Persecuted by the Government of the mother-country, and disgusted by the habits of a society opposed to the rigor of their own principles, the Puritans went forth to seek some rude and unfrequented part of the world, where they could live according to their own opinions, and worship God in freedom.†   (source)
  • But the Puritan's face scowled down out of the picture, as if nothing on the table pleased his appetite.†   (source)
  • In the very act of running to climb Colonel Pyncheon's knee, the boy had discovered the old Puritan to be a corpse.†   (source)
  • "I am in the hands of my enemies," continued she, with that tone of enthusiasm which she knew was familiar to the Puritans.†   (source)
  • In England the stronghold of Puritanism was in the middle classes, and it was from the middle classes that the majority of the emigrants came.†   (source)
  • However just the parallel drawn, in some of the preceding pages, between his Puritan ancestor and himself, it fails in this point.†   (source)
  • I struggled, then, with all my strength, and doubtless opposed, weak as I was, a long resistance, for I heard him cry out, 'These miserable Puritans!†   (source)
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