16 Verbs to Use for the Word purer

I was watching those fleecy clouds, until they seemed to be little waves in which the stars were sailing upward, up, and as they looked back to us, their smile seemed to grow purer; and I think I can see Quady among them.

If from my lips some angry accents fell, Peevish complaint, or harsh reproof unkind, 'T was but the error of a sickly mind And troubled thoughts, clouding the purer well And waters clear of Reason; and for me Let this my verse the poor atonement be, My verse, which thou to praise wert e'er inclined Too highly, and with partial eye to see No blemish.

Some of them contain a high moral lesson; others, a warning; many, an incentive to live purer and nobler lives.

He was not so good a man as was the pious Antoninus, who would, had he been converted to Christianity, have given to it a purer and loftier legislation.

The great courtier, the great tutor of the Emperor, the great Stoic and favourite writer of his age, would indeed have been astonished if he had been suddenly told that that wretched-looking little slave-lad was destined to attain purer and clearer heights of philosophy than he himself had ever done, and to become quite as illustrious as himself, and far more respected as an exponent of Stoic doctrines.

Every persecuting church has numbered among its members thousands of pious people, so grateful for its services, or so attached to its truth, as to think those impious who desire something purer and more perfect.

Yet this did not darken the chamber, which seemed to draw a purer and more vigorous light through the soaring shaft that pierced the room than that which came from the dim woodland aisles below.

Question this who may, that deep down under the impulses of surging passion there existed a purer and holier affection for her, is in history sufficiently clear.

" THEOCRITUS AND CALLIMACHUS Let us now return from Athens and Rome to Alexandria, to see whether we can find a purer and more genuinely romantic atmosphere in the works of her leading poets.

It is Venice who would save the Church; the civil ruler shall purge her sacred courts of such iniquities and leave her the purer for her sons to love.

How can posterior things produce prior, or exterior things produce interior, or grosser things produce purer?

Their glory shines the purer and brighter from the midst of a corrupt and deplorable society.

Then, pointing to the new-turned earth, Friar Martin spake soft-voiced: "Lo, herein but a little time, wild flowers shall bloom above her yet none purer or sweeter than she!

I was inspired with new Vigour and Life, and saw every thing in nobler and more pleasing Views than before; I breathed a purer Æther in a Sky which was a continued Azure, gilded with perpetual Sunshine.

His love of humanity burned purer.

Go back, and say, Elizabeth has yet Eternal homes, built deep in poor men's hearts; And, in the alleys underneath the wall, Has bought with sinful mammon heavenly treasure, More sure than adamant, purer than white whales' bone, Which now she claims.

16 Verbs to Use for the Word  purer