Thompson came here to war against the giant sin of slavery, not with the sword and the pistol, but with the smooth stones of oratory taken from the pure waters of the river of Truth.
A puredespotism governs the human brute; and even his covering and provender, both as to quantity and quality, depend entirely on the master's discretion.
Glossy black all over, except showy white patch on primaries, and head and throat pure white (forehead and crown sometimes grayish).
Under parts pure white; under tail coverts unspotted; fewer wing spots than medianus and pubescens.
Larger; more white spots near bend of wing and secondaries than hyloscopus, fewer than villosus; pure white below.
And pure thy spirit as from heaven it came; And, when recalled to join the blest above, Thou diedst a victim to exceeding love Nursing the young to health.
At present, however, all the doors and windows are open, and the room is pure enough from tobacco to suit my father himself.
Some continue to profess it as matter of policy; but many profess themselvespure Deists, and some embrace Christianity.
Its smoky atmosphere, and its muddy river, charm me more than the pureair of Hertfordshire, and the crystal currents of the river Rib.
I want you to become a complete Frenchman, that I may give you Racine, the only dramatic poet I know in any modern language that is perfectly pure and good.
Before the end of August Parliament abolished slavery, and the last touch was put to the work that had consumed so many pure and noble lives.
It is a system of arbitrary canons, originating in pure caprice.
Nevertheless she was much appreciated owing to her charming appearance as well as to her pure and dignified womanliness, and I remember many tokens of esteem which she received in those days.
He invited me to follow himself and his family to a country place near La Ferte-sous-Jouarre, where I could be refreshed by pure air and absolute quiet, and wait for a change for the better in my position.
We were certain of our innocence in the matter, and very grieved at having, throughpure slander, lost the chance of such assistance in our great need.
My intercourse with those of my own age had always been the result of pure chance.
It is used for cattle feed and also is made into lard and "pure olive oil," being exported in bulk and imported again in bottles with Italian labels.
The field which the pure Opportunists occupy was filled by Lambert and his admirers, who, while they branded Haslerig as a reactionary, coquetted with the King.
Some o' the boys, jest fer pure devilment, picked me up an' carried me on their shoulders to the tavern an' made me set down to a hearty dinner.
That I may be worthy of such grace, may our beloved Saint keep my heart pure from every earthly passion and desire!
But I judge that this is true of only such as are in sin, and that the pure in heart have nothing to fear from them.
The atmosphere was of a silver lucidity, and so fresh and pure that with every breath I seemed to be taking new life.
I saw the vicious Amula spit in the pure one's face.
It is to the pure French what a good sweet Irish brogue is to the pure English.
The gilding is more laborious, and enormous quantities of pure gold-leaf are used.
At Jaipur red, blue and green enamels are laid upon pure gold, and the richness and brilliancy of the result have raised the enamels of that place to the first rank among those of all the East.
With its pale cheek tinted faintly, Like a vestal pure and saintly, Lo!
It remembered that there was a tiny lake of purewater near by, and to this lake the Cat sped as fast as it could go.
While the traditions are full of the praises of poverty and the dangers of wealth, assertions in praise of wealth also occur, for the reason that the pure Muhammedan ideas opposed to Christianity retained a certain influence.
Dissensions persist even now because millions of people are unable to distinguish pure religion from the forms of expression belonging to an extinct civilisation.
They were free from diseases, for their climate was healthy, and their land possessed good air, pure water, and wholesome fruits.
Brahman--is to arise; it is only after the complete destruction of the life of sense and the body that man can plunge into the pure spirit.
But Vijaya and his companions had been banished from home without wives, and they would not mingle their pure blood with the bad on the island.
In this the holy and pure being had allowed the world to emanate from itself; the further this world was removed from its origin and source, the more melancholy and gloomy it became.
It was not the pure heaven of Brahman, but a higher, brighter world.
I am on the further shore; the pure way to heaven is opened; I have entered upon the way of Nirvana.
By following the rules of the Veda, so said the adherents of this philosophy, no peace can be obtained; the means prescribed by the Veda are neither pure nor of sufficient efficacy.
In this manner the pure and holy life, according as it was freed from all sensuality and corporeality, from the whole material world, succeeded in winning a return to supersensual and incorporeal Brahman.
But this was an adulteration of the pure Brahman; it was the non-sensual, not the material side of the world which was the pure Brahman.
They had raised themselves in the scale of existence, and must therefore return into the bosom of the pure being from which they had emanated.
Clad in a pure garment, with kuca-grass in his hands, he then sits down on kuca-grass with his face to the east.
The weight given by the caste system to pure blood did not suppress even among the Brahmans the pride in ancient and distinguished family descent.
The Cudra must become a Vaicya, the Vaicya a Kshatriya, the Kshatriya a Brahman, and the Brahman a wholly sinless and sacred man, a pure spirit, before he can pass into Brahman.
Mr. Wentworth sat there, with his legs crossed, lifting his dry, pure countenance from the Boston "Advertiser.
Mr. Wentworth looked at her, painfully at a loss; and in so far as the signs of a pure and abstinent life were visible in his face they were then probably peculiarly manifest.
Strange would it be, if, at such tidal moments, the youth should not, in pure thankfulness, find out the Giver of all good!
It separates all spirits, the beautiful but dense element in which the pure soul is submerged.
I came back slowly in the twilight, and was roused from my reverie by the cold wind breathing on me as I reached the top of the hill, pure and keen and frosted like the bright December breezes of my own land.
The world of art is thus thought of as one of pure contemplation, a place of escape from the difficulties, the pangs, and the incompleteness that beset all action.
There is the central idea of the conflict between the higher and lower, both on the social and the individual side; the victory of the Round Table would have meant not onlypure knights but a regenerate state.
Nature is emptied of her contents to become the pure inhabitancy of one human soul.
Her voice, though pure and clear, was wanting in flexibility, and she could not easily hold a tone or sing even a slight cadence.
Some are pure and colorless, like maidens who know nothing of love, and others are faintly stained with streaks of purple-rose.
For the joy isn't pure joy, or the pain pure pain, and she cannot come to rest in either of them.
These consisted in bathing himself from head to foot till his body was as pure without as he desired his heart to be within; and in donning his fresh suit of linen.
The hart came to her noiselessly, and laid its muzzle on her hair, and when she put her hand on its pure side it arched its noble neck and licked her cheek.
She clutched him so piteously that in pure pity he clutched her, and lifting her bodily out of her peril set her on his knee.
The wooded banks, the calm water, the islands of reeds and sedges, the pure white lilies that scented the air and murmured softly as the boat brushed their snowy petals, were all stained with the blood of the dying sun.
The meadows through which the little path ran were dotted all over with golden spots of lotus, and near the water the pale, pure yellow of the evening primrose shone against the darkening willows.
Those who set value on a pure vin du pays with a specific flavour belonging to the soil, should look for it in the little out-of-the-way auberge lying amongst the vineyards.
It retained a strong flavour of its origin, and might have been correctly described as fire-water, for it was almost pure spirit.
Baalbek lay like a city of the dead, the splendid architecture of its countless temples gleaming ghostlike, cold, white and unreal in the pure refulgence of the moon.
When the monks trooped out, haggard and wan, in the pure light of the dawn, the Abbot asked Gottlieb to get a flagon and dash water from the spring in the faces of the sleepers.
Her fertile brain had already digested a plan, but she had resolved that this pure and candid soul should take no lessons of deceit.
Frank as the day, constant as the sun, pure as the dew, she passed the golden years preparing herself and others for a still brighter eternity.
That sacred name to me, from lips so pure as yours.
I have more confidence in that candid face and pure nature than in a human being's oath.
And the pure wine she had brought did Mrs. Triplet much good, too; though not so much as the music and sunshine of her face and voice.
He was played, pure and intact, a calamity the rest of us grumbling escape.
Parts of it would not look well in print; but the rugged words, the uncouth Saxonism, the obscene phrase, were the mere oaken bucket in which the pure and precious waters were hauled to the surface.
There was no hardship in it, only a new-found pleasure, to sleep and breathe the pure night air of the woods.
It is the sheerest nonsense and pure ignorance of the facts to say that Sir Edward Carson created the Ulster difficulty.
Abandoned all too lightly was the rigid principle that to accept favours from England was to betray Ireland, and the pursuit of place and patronage was esteemed as not being inconsistent with a pure patriotism.
The group is composed of eight maples, each a distinct contrast of pure color.
The veriest wretch that goes shivering by Will take a wide sweep lest I wander too nigh, For of all that is on or about me, I know, There is nothing that's pure but the beautiful snow.
There is one that combines every intermediate color, from deep crimson to the palest saffron; while its neighbor flutters in the wind with every leaf a brilliant butterfly of pure green, with spots and splashes of deep carmine.
