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Sir Roger's voice struck in. "I'm not a puritanical husband, Bellairs, but I must make a stand somewhere. Not the Chamber of Deputies." "Don't be silly, Roger dear," said Lady Deane, in her usual tone of dispassionate reproof. "I can't find out where she does want to go to," remarked the General. "I can tell you," said Sir Roger, and he leant down and whispered a name; in the General's ear.
Anybody can put two and two together, I suppose, especially if you know what infernally Puritanical notions Helen had." "Puritanical?" The artist leaned back in his chair and smiled at his wife in his superior and tantalizing fashion. "She thought she'd outgrown Puritanism," he returned, "but really she was, in her way, as much of a Puritan as you are.
There are, however, many parishes where in this matter the strictest discipline is rigorously enforced Amusements, not necessarily or even often vicious, are objected to as being fraught with dangers which would never occur to any but the rigidly ascetic or the puritanical mind.
The Evangelical leaders, relying on less exclusively ecclesiastical methods, diffused their influence over a much wider area, and, under the impulse of their teaching, drunkenness, indecency, and profanity were sensibly abated. The reaction from the rampant wickedness of the eighteenth century drove men into strict and even puritanical courses.
She had the eyes of an angel, only they were generally veiled; she had the figure of a miniature Venus, soft and with delicate curves, which seemed somehow to be always subtly asserting themselves, although she affected in her dress an almost puritanical simplicity. Her presence in a room was always felt at once. There are some women, beautiful or plain, whose sex one scarcely recognizes.
How many fathers and mothers in past days have driven their offspring to disgrace and even death by adhering to harsh, Puritanical systems, out of date even at that time! And how many more to-day let them slip into the same abysses by their too indulgent rule!
But his dialect, to the colonel's ears, was distinctly that of New England, and to this was added a puritanical and sanctimonious drawl. "He looked," said the colonel in after years, "like a blank light mulatter, but talked like a blank Yankee parson."
Some of the more puritanical objected to the moral tendencies of Thackeray's lectures, and argued that the naughty scapegraces of the British court should not have been thus exhumed for the edification of an American audience. Thackeray made himself at home among the working journalists at Washington, and was always asking questions.
As she gazed on the signs of conflicting emotion in Dorothy's changes of colour and expression, Amanda came quickly enough to the conclusion that nothing would account for them but the assumption that the sly puritanical minx was in love with the handsome young roundhead.
The petty booth hath become a chamber of importance the buckram suit is changed into black velvet; and although the wearer retains his puritanical humility and politeness to clients of consequence, he can now look others broad in the face, and treat them with a full allowance of superior opulence, and the insolence arising from it.
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