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William Powell Frith - The puritan's daughter oil on canvas

Archive 2008-11-01 Hermes 2008

That on which the vessel was driven was in point of latitude about the centre, and may be easily known by a remarkable hill somewhat resembling a puritan's hat, and being placed in a hollow of the land, with much higher hills, both on the north and south of it.

The Wreck on the Andamans Joseph Darvall

The puritan's rule is to abjure them altogether; to him they are absolutely wrong in themselves, apart from all considerations of time and place.

The Greek View of Life 1897

To the mass kneeling, or the puritan's prayer rising,

Leaves of Grass [1867] 1867

But the puritan's blood was up, and with the heavy handle of his whip he had felled one and wounded another ere he was himself stretched on the ground with a sword-cut in the head.

St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864

But the puritan's blood was up, and with the heavy handle of his whip he had felled one and wounded another ere he was himself stretched on the ground with a sword-cut in the head.

St. George and St. Michael Volume II George MacDonald 1864

To the mass kneeling or the puritan's prayer rising, or sitting patiently in a pew,

Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

Incidentally, I interviewed him at Southampton earlier this season and he spoke about how the style of football he aspired to playing was somewhere between the puritan's delight of Sean O'Driscoll's Doncaster Rovers and the powerful pragmatism of Tony Pulis's Stoke.

The Guardian World News Paul Doyle 2010

The puritan's great advantage is that he knows he is right.

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Watch out for many more warnings from the assorted puritan's over the next few weeks, as we eat, drink and make merry they will claim we are risking everything from cancer to losing our sex drive through having a bit of fun.

The Lone Voice 2009