purer

Philosophy in fiction tells, among various other matters, of the perils of this intimate acquaintance with a flattering familiar in the 'purer' -- a person who more than ceases to be of else to us after his ideal shall have led up men from their flint and arrowhead caverns to intercommunicative daylight.

Diana of the Crossways — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

Philosophy in fiction tells, among various other matters, of the perils of this intimate acquaintance with a flattering familiar in the 'purer' -- a person who more than ceases to be of else to us after his ideal shall have led up men from their flint and arrowhead caverns to intercommunicative daylight.

Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868

Philosophy in fiction tells, among various other matters, of the perils of this intimate acquaintance with a flattering familiar in the 'purer' -- a person who more than ceases to be of else to us after his ideal shall have led up men from their flint and arrowhead caverns to intercommunicative daylight.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

I may have been taught to speak a purer Latin than they, but I could follow the Celtic as easily, though I acted as if I could not.

Black Horses For The King McCaffrey, Anne 1996

Even if the work be no more elevated than washing up a trayful of soiled china, a certain thrill is there at the successful completion of the task; and the greater the Augean stable, the purer is the pleasure of him who cleans it.

White Ashes Alden Charles Noble

It is certainly true that the purer is the acetylene burnt, both as regards freedom from phosphorus and absence of products of polymerisation, the longer do the burners last; and it has been claimed that a burner constructed at its jets of some non-porous substance, e.g., "ruby," does not choke as quickly as do steatite ones.

Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

Neither was his accent now altogether that of Lancashire, for Lee, as is not uncommon, would sometimes speak a purer English than the local vernacular.

Lorimer of the Northwest Harold Bindloss 1905

They speak a purer Castilian than obtains in like villages of Mexico, and the way they count relationship everybody is more or less akin.

The Land of Little Rain 1903

The people speak a purer Castilian than obtains in like villages of Mexico, and the way they count relationship everybody is more or less akin.

The Little Town of the Grape Vines 1903

The idea of cousinly intimacy to girls is undoubtedly very pleasant; and I do not know whether it is not the fact that the better and the purer is the girl, the sweeter and the pleasanter is the idea.

The Vicar of Bullhampton Anthony Trollope 1848