John had enough of the sturdy Puritan in his nature to deeply feel the duty incumbent on him, and enough of the cavalier to be a gentleman, unselfish and kind.

The Puritan of Massachusetts was, at this time, the straitest of his sect, an unflinching egotist, who regarded himself as eminently his "brother's keeper," whose constant business it was to save his fellow-men from sin and error, sitting in judgment upon their belief and actions with the authority of a divinely appointed high priest.

But this gaunt Puritan with the evil record was cunning aid ruthless also.

Conspicuously Angela attached herself to Tomlinson-Thorpe, regardless of the gaping eyes and mouths of neighbours, Puritan to the backbone in everything except the stealing of unbranded calves.

He marveled that so brave a soldier and so strict a Puritan as Rodolph Maitland should still remain subject to so much worldly weakness.

It was the Moral Sense of the Puritan at work, I supposed, and, that night, when I came in with a new supply of "billies" and gave one to each of my brothers, the tutor looked up over his glasses and cleared his throat.

Buvignier was one of the noteworthy figures on the high benches of the Left; fair, close-shaven, with a stern glance, he made one think of the English Roundheads, and he had the bearing rather of a Cromwellian Puritan than of a Dantonist Man of the Mountain.

He became an eager Puritan towards the close of his life, but his poetry chiefly belongs to the earlier part of it.

He is a profound hypocrite, and yet a puritan for observance of the ceremonies and interdictions of his faith.

"They say it is King, that pale-faced Puritan from Boston," rejoined her husband.

(Puritans like Xenophanes were annoyed not with the gods for being as Homer described them, but with Homer for describing them as he did.)

But, slowly, inexorably, his iron inheritance from Covenanter on one side and Puritan on the other asserted itself.