Your health and self-poise should come first, the comfort and happiness of husband and family next, the more or less spotlessness and tidiness of the house afterwards.
This gratification, if permanently indulged in, soon becomes a disease, for surely only a diseased mind can value the spotlessness of a house more than the health, comfort, and happiness of children.
A little later I saw him at the door of the tent, very breathless, dishevelled, and as to his dress not of the spotlessness one could wish.
But perhaps spotlessness is not compatible with the intimacy of lions and lionesses.
Indeed, partaking the human nature of those who could perpetrate such deeds, she felt her own spotlessness impugnent.
And must a selfish care for the spotlessness of our own garments keep us from pressing the guilty ones close to our hearts, wherein, for the very reason that we are innocent, lies their securest refuge from further ill?
And yet, for all its emptiness, the little room in its order and spotlessness had the look and spell of a sanctuary.
Then as thou dost permit her spotlessness to cover her hate, let my love for thee hide my sins.
Her Israelitish spotlessness will be secure there, and the reduction of her charms will be the saving of Kenkenes.
She protected those cheeks forthwith, deeming spotlessness part of womanliness.