1 Ah, so it's Ashley, and not you, who has fought the fight for purity.
2 Against the dull chocolate-coloured background of the restaurant, the purity of her head stood out as it had never done in the most brightly-lit ball-room.
3 There's Reverend Zitterel; Sister Bogart about half runs his church, so of course he'll take her say-so; and Ezra Stowbody, as a banker he has to be all hell for morality and purity.
4 She tried to have him appointed to the postmastership, which, since all the work was done by assistants, was the one sinecure in town, the one reward for political purity.
5 outline and purity of water it is fully their equal; and in.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20 6 But, in the milder moments of their plaint, these emblems of purity and sweetness were cast back to their places, with every sign of tenderness and regret.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 33 7 St. Clare's mother had been a woman of uncommon elevation and purity of character, and he gave to his child his mother's name, fondly fancying that she would prove a reproduction of her image.
8 The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.
9 All the candour of youth was there, as well as all youth's passionate purity.
10 Grace was his, and the white purity of boyhood, and beauty such as old Greek marbles kept for us.
11 He recalled the stainless purity of his boyish life, and it seemed horrible to him that it was here the fatal portrait was to be hidden away.
12 There was something in the purity of his face that rebuked them.
13 Yours seem to lose all sense of honour, of goodness, of purity.
14 There was something in the purity and refinement of that sad face that seemed to enrage him.
15 These salons did not long preserve their purity.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT