Edinburgh citizenship has always been commended for keeping a strict eye to the respectabilities, and the standard of public and private decorum was held puritanically high in the middle of the last century; but even in the most loose-lived of European cities, even in the frankest freedom of barracks or of camp, John Porteous, if his reputation did not belie him, might have been expected to hold his own among the profligate and the brutal.
"A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)"
Justin McCarthy
This honest divine was puritanically inclined, but there can be no exaggeration in these unvarnished facts.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)"
Isaac Disraeli
To my sheltered, puritanically brought up consciousness, there could be no two views among conventional people as to the life I was about to enter upon.
"Memoirs of an American Prima Donna"
Clara Louise Kellogg