Even apart from reading old literature and from having, when you use words, no ghosts of their pristine selves rise up to damn you, you may profit from a knowledge of how the meaning of a term has evolved.

With our modern facility of communication, the letter has lost the pristine dignity of its function.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature!

She changed into a child! 'Mid weeds and wrecks she stood,a place Of ruin,but she smiled!" Much has the Church lost of that pristine and powerful joy.

" Not till that pristine gladness of life returns will the Church regain her early charm for the souls of men.

The wonders of pristine Egypt were confined to Memphis and Thebes and the dilapidated cities of the Nile.

Adj. past, gone, gone by, over, passed away, bygone, foregone; elapsed, lapsed, preterlapsed^, expired, no more, run out, blown over, has-been, that has been, extinct, antediluvian, antebellum, never to return, gone with the wind, exploded, forgotten, irrecoverable; obsolete &c (old) 124. former, pristine, quondam, ci-devant

But even in this mutilated condition it shows traces of excellent workmanship and of pristine beauty.

Agreeing that they were formed of "the dust of the ground" and of thin air only leads to the conclusion that the pristine individuals were corporeally constituted like existing individuals, produced through natural agencies.

Rome indeed appealed to his imagination, Roma pulcherrima rerum, but it was the invisible Rome rather than the fumum et opes strepitumque, it was the city of pristine ideals, of irresistible potency, of Anchises' pageant of heroes.

But notwithstanding the title of the poem, it is Auburn in its pristine condition that remains in our memories.

And what will now thy future be, Thou pristine refuge of the brave, Which Rome's last heroes fought to free, And vainly gave their lives to save?

though vivified with pristine force, O'er learning's realms he shot with meteor course; To worth relentless, Fate's despotic frown Scowl'd in the bright perspective of renown: Timeless he falls, in Death's pale triumph led.

Now it is evident that if other planes be brought into operation in the parts of the atmosphere thus impoverished, before they have had time to recover their pristine or natural density, they will of necessity act with diminished vigour; the resistance being ever proportioned to the density of the resisting medium.

Under its plastic sway the Alhambra seems to regain its pristine glories.

In the political aspect of the question, they have nothing to ask, except what the Constitution authorizesno change to desire, but that the Constitution may be restored to its pristine republican purity.

On the restoration, the palace was in a very dismantled state, and having, during the commonwealth, been plundered and defaced, it never recovered its pristine splendour.

The convents, however, still remained in their pristine magnificence, though declining in purity of morals and in public estimation.

Substantial people should stay in South Carolina to preserve their pristine purity, hospitality, freedom of thought, fearlessness and nobility.

In the Southern lowlands and Piedmont, however, the pristine advantages of self-sufficing industry were so soon eclipsed by the profits to be had from tobacco, rice, indigo, sugar or cotton, that in large degree the whole community adopted a stereotyped economy with staple production as its cardinal feature.

During our stay there, on June 1, Dr. Le Plongeon had the great satisfaction of discovering a monument, a splendid work of art in all its pristine beauty, fresh as when the artist put the finishing touch to it, without blemish, unharmed by time, and not even looked upon by man since it was concealed, ages ago, where Dr. Le Plongeon discovered it through his interpretations of certain inscriptions.

The restrictions which held back Irish commerce still existed in almost all their pristine force.

She had retained her pristine brilliance of soul.

This strange modern confirmation of his early Heaven of wonder before the senses had thickened and concealed it, laid bare again his earliest world of far-off pristine glory.

No one must know of his success until the mystery was cleaned, brightened, and restored to pristine beauty.