PURE in Classic Quotes

1  It was part of the sun's red and of the pure glitter on the snow.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In III

2  The night was perfectly still, and the air so dry and pure that it gave little sensation of cold.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In I

3  Slowly the rim of the rainy vapours caught fire and burnt away, and a pure moon swung into the blue.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VIII

4  Seen thus, from the pure and frosty darkness in which he stood, it seemed to be seething in a mist of heat.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In I

5  The sunrise burned red in a pure sky, the shadows on the rim of the wood-lot were darkly blue, and beyond the white and scintillating fields patches of far-off forest hung like smoke.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In III

6  Here the snow was so pure that the tiny tracks of wood-animals had left on it intricate lace-like patterns, and the bluish cones caught in its surface stood out like ornaments of bronze.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IX

7  The pure air, and the long summer hours in the open, gave back life and elasticity to Mattie, and Zeena, with more leisure to devote to her complex ailments, grew less watchful of the girl's omissions; so that Ethan, struggling on under the burden of his barren farm and failing saw-mill, could at least imagine that peace reigned in his house.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In III