Having been reared in a rigidly puritanic school of thought, the time was, when first he knew them, that the freedom with which Amalia spoke of the Deity, and of the Christ, and the saints, and her prayers, fell strangely upon his unaccustomed ears.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
The hostess, dressed as usual with puritanic simplicity in some kind of dark linen stuff, deliciously fresh and smelling of lavender, is leaning back in a garden-chair, diligently crochetting a red-and-white afghan for her little son's bed.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
One has the choice here between parvenu vulgarity and puritanic narrow mindedness.
"With Edge Tools"
Hobart Chatfield-Taylor