Its forested shores go curving in and out around many an emerald bay and pine-crowned promontory, and its waters are everywhere as keenly pure as any to be found among the highest mountains.

I knew the kind heart of that mother, how truthful it was, and how earnest and pure in its affection for its gentle and only darling.

We had coffee, and tea, and the purest of spring water, by way of beverage, and truth compels me to admit, that under the advice of the Doctor, a drop or two of Old Cognac may have been added by way of relish, or to temper the effect of a hearty meal upon the delicate stomachs of some of the guests.

Right down below all the folly and meanness which clouds men's souls flows the universal Life pure from its original source.

But there was not the slightest dustiness, nothing less pure than leaves, and ripe pollen, and flecks of withered bracken and moss.

They too shall thank the Spirits of the air, With sacrifices pure for all their care; Now red, now black, the victims that they slay, As North or South the sacrifice they pay; While millet bright the altars always show; And we shall thus still greater blessings know.

The voices were clear and sweet and true, and the words came distinct and pure to the two men standing at the table.

Desire to be pure with your own pure self, and with God.

Thou strip her mortal vestment, turn My steps toward the steep ascent, that whole And pure before Thy face she may be brought.

The ascending clouds of aroma wind-rolled and rain-washed became pure like light and traveled with the wind as part of it.

Iambic verse is seldom continued perfectly pure through a long succession of lines.

I have known again and again working men who in the midst of smoky cities have kept their bodies, their minds, and their hearts healthy and pure by going out into the country at odd hours, and making collections of fossils, plants, insects, birds, or some other objects of natural history; and I doubt not that such will be the case with some of my readers.

But already and separately, if every intelligent, conscientious woman can but reach one man, and influence him from the principle involvedfrom her interior perception of it, kept pure on purpose from bias and temptation that assail him in the outside mix and jostlewill she not have done her work without the casting of a ballot?

Sir W. Jones (Life, i. 177) wrote in 1776:'You will be able to examine with the minutest scrupulosity, as Johnson would call it.' Johnson describes Addison's prose as 'pure without scrupulosity.' Works, vii.

He shows us the fate of an overwrought, badly instilled wisdom; yet when that wisdom has been deserted by its cause, the promptings of a heart, pure at the core, hold up to contempt the mad teachings of the sophist.

Then they go ceremonially pure into the dining room, as if into a temple.

When I answered that I did not know, she said, "the month of May, because of the Virgin, and the lily of the valley, because it never sinned, but came pure out of the rocks," and then she asked, "what is the cause of the three cold months of winter?"

We must strive to purify the world, but we must not think ourselves pure above the world.

And before them the clouds slowly parted, and again there shone that single, magic star, dazzingly pure against the darkness.

We say ostensibly, for justice never yet was pure under a system in which the governors have an interest in the least separated from that of the governed; for in all cases which involve the ascendency of the existing authorities, the instinct of self-preservation is as certain to bias their decision as that of life is to cause man to shun danger.

It was not physical passion but spiritual craving; and in the purpose of the novelist she was as pure after as before.

How I long to be spotlessall pure within and without!...

There was always a foul smell coming out of Jenkins's stable, but here the air seemed as pure inside as outside.