Elsa blushed faintly. "I have only spoken to her once," she confessed. "I took her a bunch of wild flowers, to her room, and she came to the door in a white gown, with her hair loose. Never shall I forget that moment. She just took the flowers, and I heard her--because the door was not quite properly shut--I heard her, as I walked down the passage, saying 'Purity, fragrance, the fragrance of purity and the purity of fragrance!' It was wonderful!"英文原著 · 《In a German Pension》
"There is one quality in his songs to which we can not but direct attention--and this is their almost feminine purity. The propensities have had their laureates; and genius, alas! has often defiled its angel wings by contact with the sensual and the impure; but Morris has never attempted to robe vice in beauty; and as has been well remarked, his lays can bring to the cheek of purity no blush save that of pleasure."英文原著 · 《Poems》
"Purity, or not purity," said Bianca, "gone she is - a stranger is found that nobody knows; you question him yourself; he tells you he is in love, or unhappy, it is the same thing - nay, he owned he was unhappy about others; and is anybody unhappy about another, unless they are in love with them? and at the very next word, he asks innocently, pour soul! if my Lady Isabella is missing."英文原著 · 《The Castle of Otranto》
As I think back to my childhood, it seems to me as if the air was full of hymns, as it was of the fragrance of clover-blossoms, and the songs of bluebirds and robins, and the deep undertone of the sea. And the purity, the calmness, and the coolness of the dear old Sabbath days seems lingering yet in the words of those familiar hymns, whenever I bear them sung. Their melody penetrates deep into my life, assuming me that I have not left the green pastures and the still waters of my childhood very far behind me.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
The more mixed a nation is, the more rich its life and the greater its future. Purity of blood is not a thing to boast of, and no great and progressive nation comes from one breed of men. Some races have more imagination than others, or a finer feeling for beauty; others have more energy and practical wisdom. The best nations have both; and they have both, probably, because many races have been blended in their making. There is hardly a parish in Wales in which there are not different types of faces and different kinds of character.英文原著 · 《A Short History of Wales》
The evening calm was different. There was, Vere thought, less of heaven about it, but perhaps more of the wonder of this world. And this made her feel as if she had been nearer to heaven at her birth than she would be at her death. She knew nothing of the defilements of life. Her purity of mind was very perfect; but, taking a parable from Nature, she applied it imaginatively to Man, and she saw him covered with dust because of his journey through the world. Poor man! And then she pitied herself too. But that passed.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
Simplicity, harmony between the elements, purity, that's what makes it a Zen garden.美剧 · 《Billions》
But what they miss out on is the purity of the commitment.美剧 · 《Billions》
Desperate Housewives Season04 Episode16-17 "Lynette"-- it's how the french describe "a pretty one." "Katherine"-- coined by the ancient greeks, it denotes "purity." "Gabrielle"-- a hebrew word meaning "god is my strength." "Bree"-- it's an irish name that means "power." Indeed... every name has a si美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
And I won't listen to any imperialist nonsense about racial purity and how he should be horsewhipped for daring to dream.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》