Which preposition to use with purer

as Occurrences 174%

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.

in Occurrences 141%

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.

of Occurrences 69%

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.

from Occurrences 42%

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

than Occurrences 29%

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

than Occurrences 27%

The Duchess de Bouillon, Turenne's sister, purer than those we have named, but not less daring or determined, after charming the whole population of Paris by her rebel beauty at the Hôtel de Ville, escaped from her sudden incarceration by walking through the midst of her guards at dusk, crouching in the shadow of her little daughter, and afterwards allowed herself to be recaptured, rather than desert that child's sick-bed.

for Occurrences 13%

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.

to Occurrences 8%

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

with Occurrences 6%

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

before Occurrences 5%

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

like Occurrences 4%

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

in Occurrences 4%

Still more unfortunate is it for the animists that evidence points to the fact that advance in civilization often means the decay of monotheism, and that the ruder races are the purer in their religious and ethical conceptions.

on Occurrences 3%

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?

through Occurrences 3%

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

by Occurrences 3%

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.

with Occurrences 2%

O throw away the worser part of it, And Liue the purer with the other halfe.

at Occurrences 2%

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.

into Occurrences 2%

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

out Occurrences 2%

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?"

without Occurrences 2%

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.

above Occurrences 2%

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

within Occurrences 1%

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

to Occurrences 1%

She never knew how the very air seemed purer to me because she breathed it.

as Occurrences 1%

Said Goethe, "If Byron had had the opportunity of working off all the opposition that was in him, by delivering many strong speeches in parliament, he would have been far purer as a poet.

at Occurrences 1%

The moonlight seemed to grow brighter and purer at every step, and the sleeping flowers sweeter and lovelier, and the moss greener and thicken Fairyfoot felt so happy and gay that he forgot he had ever been sad and lonely in his life.

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