pudicity

• “French fashion; in the spring, of the Spanish; in summer, of the fashion of Tuscany, except only upon the holy days and Sundays, at which times they were accoutred in the French mode, because they accounted it more honourable and better befitting the garb of a matronal pudicity.”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “Graces, for the like reason, have been held to continue in a sempiternal pudicity.”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “Not, quoth he, that I do mistrust her virtue, or that I seem to have any diffidence of her pudicity and chaste behaviour, — for of that I have frequently had good and real proofs, — but I must freely tell you, She is a woman.”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “It was even so with Hawkes, as he looked at the little Irish girl, born of an aristocratic English mother, looking up at him, hand outstretched, expectant, in all her girlish pudicity.”

  Peg O' My Heart

• “School, but was soon busily employed on his own account in supplying the jewellers 'shops with miniature paintings on ivory; pretty heads and fancy subjects or mythological scenes to be framed with gold or set with diamonds; the beau of the day was incomplete without a costly snuff-box adorned with a lid, the prettiness of which, perhaps, somewhat surpassed its pudicity.”

  Art in England Notes and Studies

• “Finally, the eyes are ordered to wander indiscriminately, and with all pudicity, over the whole flock, and never to be fixed upon a pretty lamb.”

  To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I

• “But the pudicity of his behaviour and language covers a soul tremulous with emotion, whose passion was intensified by the discipline of a chaste intention.”

  Milton

• “The Muses upon the same consideration are esteemed perpetual maids: and the Graces, for the same reason, have been held to continue in a sempiternal pudicity.”

  Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction

• “There is a pudicity in noble minds which withholds them from speaking of their personal sufferings; proudly they hide the extent of their woes from hearts that love them, feeling”

  The Lily of the Valley

• “Tuscany, except only upon the holy days and Sundays, at which times they were accoutred in the French mode, because they accounted it more honourable and better befitting the garb of a matronal pudicity.”

  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1

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