He couldn't very well miss seeing it because of the unforgettable brightness of its beady eyes, and the absolutely spotless purity of its white shirt-front.
Certainly he did appear to do so; and when at length he drew back, rocking and gasping like a drunken creature, the famed purity of that herring-gull's uniform was a thing of beauty no longer.
I cannot speak So well, nothing so well; no, nor mean better: 370 By the pattern of mine own thoughts I cut out The purity of his.
How,' asks Diana, 'can you believe me if I swear by the purity and holiness of God to do an impure and unholy deed?
Pulcheria alone discharged the important task of instructing her brother in the arts of government; but her precepts may countenance some suspicions of the extent of her capacity, or of the purity of her intentions.
The Romans communicated to their conquerors the use of the Christian religion and Latin language; [118] but their language and their religion had alike degenerated from the simple purity of the Augustan, and Apostolic age.
The zeal of Generic and his successors, for the conversion of the Catholics, must have rendered them still more jealous to guard the purity of the Vandal faith.
If his varnish be closely examined, its purity and richness of colour are readily seen.
Elegance of style and charming purity of tone were qualities peculiarly his.
In the instruments of Maggini, De Beriot doubtless recognised the presence of vast power, together with no inconsiderable amount of purity of tone, and to bring forth these qualities to the best advantage was with him a labour of love.
I feel, I know that my honor, that my purity is all in all to you.
Florette gazed with a melancholy smile upon her companion; perhaps thoughts of her own former purity came over her mind.
It brings you into that state of passive suffering which is to complete the decentralisation of your character, test the purity of your love, and perfect your education in humility.
Their purity is an affirmative state; something strong, clean, and crystalline, capable of a wholeness of adjustment to the wholeness of a God-inhabited world.
Your doubt as to the existence of masculine purity proves with what type of persons you have hitherto mixed.
Close was he upon an explosion that would have sullied his conception of the purity of the younger members of the sex hauntingly.
But she was jealous on behalf of her sex: her sex's reputation seemed at stake, and the purity of it was menaced by Clara's idle preference of the shallower man.
Clara's wish for his happiness, as soon as she had housed herself in the imagination of her freedom, was of a purity that made it seem exceedingly easy for her to speak to him.
Purity in women was his principal stipulation, and a woman puffed at, was not the person to cause him tremours.
The capaciously strong in soul among women will ultimately detect an infinite grossness in the demand for purity infinite, spotless bloom.
Constantia's offence had been no greater, but it was not that dramatic performance of purity which he desired of an affianced lady, and so the offence was great.
Total ignorance being their pledge of purity to men, they have to expunge the writing of their perceptives on the tablets of the brain: they have to know not when they do know.
Absolute purity has no fear of social slander; it knows its own value, and that it must conquer in the end.
So with your life and heart, little one--pass them through the scorching fire of flattery, and their purity must wither even as these fragile blossoms.
He and poor Ferrari were close friends, you know; it will be pious and kind of you to join their names in one petition addressed to Him 'from whom no secrets are hid,' and who reads with unerring eyes the purity of your intentions.
What had I to do with the inward purity and peace this memento of Christ is supposed to leave in our souls?
This took up again the fifth-century doctrine in its popular form, but it evidently led directly up to the heresy that the validity or benefit of the sacrament depended on the purity of the priest.
In part this was due to another logical product of the conception of purity as negation, especially of sex.
Nature" acquired great suggestion of purity and correctness in the eighteenth century, which it has not yet lost.
The enemies of the Albigenses recognized their high purity of life.
To him it was simply a matter of conscience that the ministers of Christ should be adorned with the austere purity through which alone lay the path to salvation.
Birtha, "in love unpractised and unread," is the beau-ideal of innocence and purity of mind.
The marriage of Artegal with Britomart means that the justice of lord Gray was united to purity of mind or perfect integrity of conduct.
His learning, his simplicity, his evangelical purity of mind are so admirably mingled with pedantry, absence of mind, and the habit of athletic .
Plain moral purity and religious fervor had done for the young man what a lifetime of political scheming had failed to do for many a grey-headed disappointed adventurer.
Richardson has given a purity and sanctity to the sorrows of his "Clarissa" which leave "Calista" immeasurably behind.
It was that which related to the laws concerning purity and impurity.
Living amidst the people, coming into daily contact with them, he surpassed the men of his time in love of God, purity of heart, and unselfishness.
Or what dispose us to set a stricter Guard upon the Purity of our own Hearts, than our being Members of Christ, and a Part of the Society of which that immaculate Person is the Head?
To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay.
Natural delicacy or shame regarding personal charms and the sexual relation; purity of thought and manners; due regard for propriety in speech or action.
Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.
A Jew bound by a vow to lave the hair uncut, to abstain from wine and strong drink, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion, the obligation being for life, or for a certain time.
The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom.
The quality or state of being a virgin; undefiledpurity or chastity; maidenhood.
A calling in question as to purity of motives, rectitude of conduct, credibility, etc.
Even though the purity of St. Real's nature forced itself upon her conviction, the evil and subtlety of her own character affected the impression which his left upon her mind, and changed it from its natural appearance.
I hoped that her beauty, the purityof her soul, the nobility of her blood, were treasures quite as precious as gold!
And that he lived at all was probably due to some great original vital force in his organization, and also to the purity of his native air, of which at least he got a plenty.
Her dress was simplicity itself--a plain white tarletan with white ribbons; but it well became the angelic purity of her type of beauty.
Without being the very least dandyish, Ishmael was still fastidiously nice in his personal appointments; purity and refinement pervaded his presence.
Instead, then, of continually adding to your religious exercises, study to perfect yourself in the practice of those you already perform, doing them with more love and peace of soul, and with greater purity of intention.
Why then regulate the number of Communions by the law of time, instead of by purity of conscience, which should alone indicate how many times to receive?
For you imagine that merit consists not so much in purity of conscience as in the length of time intervening between your Communions.
Saint Hilarion considered it an act of sensuality to change his habit, whilst, on the other hand, Saint Catherine of Sienna was extremely particular about bodily cleanliness which she looked upon as a symbol of purity of soul.
The absolute purity and transparency of the atmosphere give value and intensity to every shade of colour, and the scarlet hybiscus flowers show the incandescent glow belonging rather to lamps than to blossoms.
The so-called Paranak of the Malay Archipelago frequently marries a native wife, and, as purity of race becomes destroyed, ancestral obligations lose their power even over the mind of the most conservative people in the world.
An atmosphere of crystalline puritydiscloses the highest range of the interior, a long chain of azure peaks.
An itinerant minstrel recites the history of Johar Mankain, the Una of Java, who shone like a jewel in the world which could not tarnish the purity and devotion of one whose heart entertained no evil thought.
It is remarkable to what extent this intense purityin the country seems to influence the character of its inhabitants.
It is on less disputable ground that I may claim the reader's gratitude to the mountains, as having been the centres not only of imaginative energy, but of purity both in doctrine and practice.
The result of this law is a peculiar aspect of purity in the landscape composed of such rocks.
I have already often had occasion to allude to the apparent connexion of brilliancy of color with vigor of life, orpurity of substance.
Knowledge of self and purity of heart, the mystics teach, are the indispensable conditions for the highest mystical elevation.
The soul is a mirror that reflects the invisible things of God, and it is by purity of heart alone that this mirror is made clear.
Follow me now, all of you, with purity of faith and freedom of will, to make this offering.
Childs, in referring to this trait, said: "Another great trait of his character was his purity in every way.
Intellectual culture has no necessary relation to purity or excellence of character.
Then is he summoned to make his choice between truth and treachery; between honor and dishonor; between purity and profligacy; between moral life and moral death.
