In this view it wants color, passion, it is too self-conscious and prudish, not to say Puritanically mock-modest.
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In this view it wants color, passion, it is too self-conscious and prudish, not to say Puritanically mock-modest.
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However, Anne was not at all surprised, when on the very evening of the Prince’s departure, old Mrs. Humphreys, a venerable-looking dame in handsome but Puritanically-fashioned garments, came in a hackney coach to request in her son’s name that her granddaughter might return with her, as her occupation was at an end.
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Even that smooth, close-shaven cleanliness was so Puritanically aggressive as to make one abhor the very idea of soap.
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Must this Puritanically misunderstood literal statement destroy man’s dearest possession, the symbol of the reality?
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