Puritanic

Mrs. Greyson had a deep repugnance to falsehood, and Arthur Fenton had often good-humoredly jeered at what he called her Puritanic scrupulousness in this respect.

The Pagans Arlo Bates 1884

I question whether HBO is doing "it" at all with their apparent Puritanic values.

Is HBO Doing It Right? (A Song Of Ice And Fire) 2007

Personally, I havent seen much "Puritanic values" on HBO in Rome, Sex in the City, Deadwood or others.

Is HBO Doing It Right? (A Song Of Ice And Fire) 2007

We would not go through the world insisting on grim Puritanic earnestness at every moment of a man's life, but

Voltaire 2007

This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

Here, indeed, in the sable simplicity that generally characterised the Puritanic modes of dress, there might be an infrequent call for the finer productions of her handiwork.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

Elsewhere match that bloom of theirs, ye cannot, save in Salem, where they tell me the young girls breathe such musk, their sailor sweethearts smell them miles off shore, as though they were drawing nigh the odorous Moluccas instead of the Puritanic sands.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

The persons now in the market-place of Boston had not been born to an inheritance of Puritanic gloom.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

He was a soldier, legislator, judge; he was a ruler in the Church; he had all the Puritanic traits, both good and evil.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

She saw the children of the settlement on the grassy margin of the street, or at the domestic thresholds, disporting themselves in such grim fashions as the Puritanic nurture would permit! playing at going to church, perchance, or at scourging Quakers, or taking scalps in a sham fight with the

The Scarlet Letter 2002