So far, good; but he adds that Massachusetts takes umbrage at the first syllable of our name, on account of its being at variance with the prohibitory law of that pleasant but Puritanical State.
There is nothing heroic in a street boy passing by the baker's cart without a grab at the loaves, and it sounds almost puritanical to forbid him to cast a glance at them, or inhale a sniff of their warm fragrance.
Then came a series of attempts to screen the puritanical ugliness of the offending block.
And Kitty must have done something to bring down upon her the wrath of the Puritanicalmistress of the house.
Take care; some puritanical elector whose own morality may be more or less problematical, is likely to call you to account for her presence.
Betwixt two of the bars of his cage, therefore, Tom was busy presenting him with one hideous puritanical face after another, in full expectation of a satisfactory outburst of feline rancour.
A Puritanical regard of the Sabbath still lingers in our New England towns.
Illustration: The Copley Family] In many families of extreme Puritanical thought, the children developed at an early age a comprehension of religious matters which would seem abnormal to-day, but was natural then.
As an exposition of the possibilities, or rather the actual extensiveness, of a Puritanical feminine wardrobe at this date, let me name the articles of clothing bequeathed by the will of Jane Humphrey, who died in Dorchester, Mass.
He was, however, fond of melody, which, like everything else of a cheerful and agreeable nature, received a sad blow from the dull puritanicalhumbugs who rose into importance at the time of the Commonwealth.
Strict laws were passed enforcing sobriety, condemning trades of pleasure, reducing the gay customs of Florence to puritanical austerity.
Men who chafed against puritanical reform, and who were eager for any government that should secure them their old licence, were known as Compagnacci.
At Colchester he became a leading and decorous choir lad, and according to himself it was his love for psalmody rather than any regard for his puritanical parents which invariably brought about his return, prodigal-wise, to the paternal roof.
Sophia was on the landing; Rose was just opening her door; Susan, decently covered by a puritanical dressing-gown, had been roused by the noise.
She was the onlypuritanical Mallett in history, Caroline said.
Your puritanical airs never deceived me--for a moment.
I do not think that such a thing existed at that period as puritanical objection to dancing, but I imagine that it was the sort of dance which offended Clisthenes.
It is quite certain that Bunyan was, at eighteen, what, in any but the most austerely puritanical circles, would have been considered as a young man of singular gravity and innocence.
She was small, but very lovely, with something almost Puritanical in her dainty, precise dress and carefully snooded golden hair.
A puritanical obtuseness of sentiment, a stupid infantile goodness, is creeping among us, instead of the vigorous passions, and virtues clad in flesh and blood, with which the old dramatists present us.
The endless succession of shops where Fancy miscalled Folly is supplied with perpetual gauds and toys, excite in me no puritanical aversion.
As to Milton, by double prejudices, puritanical and classical, his mind had been preoccupied against the full impressions of Shakspeare.
Gwynne had in the base of his character a puritanical stratum by no means mined as yet, but with too many outcroppings to have been overlooked.
My puritanical instincts dictate that I have no right to be quite happy.
And they dabbled or trifled with free thought and "immorality," crying Goethe up as the Light of Lights, while all their inner souls were bound in the most Puritanical and petty goody-goodyism.
