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It was only the youth who was arguing with him, the youth with youth's pure-minded and invincible reasoning.

Chapter 13 2010

Another pure-minded member chimed in with "Yes, the book is flippant and irreverent in its style; it deals with a series of experiences that are certainly not elevating; the whole book is of a class that is more profitable for the slums than it is for responsible people, and it is trash of the veriest sort."

Hugh Rawson: Mark Twain's Language: "Bad" Words Then and Now Hugh Rawson 2011

Another pure-minded member chimed in with "Yes, the book is flippant and irreverent in its style; it deals with a series of experiences that are certainly not elevating; the whole book is of a class that is more profitable for the slums than it is for responsible people, and it is trash of the veriest sort."

Hugh Rawson: Mark Twain's Language: "Bad" Words Then and Now Hugh Rawson 2011

JONES: I do not understand that system of ethics which draws a distinction between a straightforward, honorable, veracious, and pure-minded man in private life, and a deceitful scoundrel as a public officer.

A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

JONES: I do not understand that system of ethics which draws a distinction between a straightforward, honorable, veracious, and pure-minded man in private life, and a deceitful scoundrel as a public officer.

A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

A Mrs. Swisshelm, for example, contended in the pages of the Lily that "it may be very angelic for a pure-minded, virtuous woman to love and caress a great drunken beast, but ... we have not the slightest pretensions to being an angel."

'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S. 2008

Long ago, when such people as John Galsworthy, E. M. Forster, H. G. Wells, and other pure-minded souls were active in it, it was just called the PEN Club.

Literary Life: A Second Memoir Larry McMurtry 2009

Long ago, when such people as John Galsworthy, E. M. Forster, H. G. Wells, and other pure-minded souls were active in it, it was just called the PEN Club.

Literary Life: A Second Memoir Larry McMurtry 2009

You are only disgusted with a certain element in it, an attitude quite natural to all pure-minded girls who are what you are.

The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

The sharp-sighted and pure-minded artists have long ago seen that the utmost reach of art is the most rigorous obedience to nature.

Acting 'Natural': Vanity Fair and the UnMasking of Anglo-American Sentiment 2006