1 She saw in him that ancient motionlessness of a race that can't be disillusioned any more, an extreme, perhaps, of impurity that is pure.
2 On the far side of his supreme prostitution to the bitch-goddess he seemed pure, pure as an African ivory mask that dreams impurity into purity, in its ivory curves and planes.
3 Each pipe dropped from the lips of its owner as though all had inhaled an impurity at the same instant.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24 4 committed sins of impurity, father.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 5 Edgewise moved along the oily deck, it operates like a leathern squilgee; and by nameless blandishments, as of magic, allures along with it all impurities.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand. 6 The crowded mirror of the Horican was gone; and, in its place, the green and angry waters lashed the shores, as if indignantly casting back its impurities to the polluted strand.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18 7 Well, as a matter of fact there are no impurities in the water of these pools at this time of the year.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama 8 He assures them that their last sample is impure and quite useless for his present purpose.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT 9 Every impure thought, deliberately yielded to, is a keen lance transfixing that sacred and loving heart.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 10 I should not dare to have an impure thought about you.