French fashion; in the spring, of the Spanish; in summer, of the fashion of Tuscany, except only upon the holy days and Sundays, at which times they were accoutred in the French mode, because they accounted it more honourable and better befitting the garb of a matronal pudicity. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Graces, for the like reason, have been held to continue in a sempiternal pudicity. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Not, quoth he, that I do mistrust her virtue, or that I seem to have any diffidence of her pudicity and chaste behaviour, — for of that I have frequently had good and real proofs, — but I must freely tell you, She is a woman. ❋ Unknown (2002)
It was even so with Hawkes, as he looked at the little Irish girl, born of an aristocratic English mother, looking up at him, hand outstretched, expectant, in all her girlish pudicity. ❋ J. Hartley Manners (1899)
School, but was soon busily employed on his own account in supplying the jewellers 'shops with miniature paintings on ivory; pretty heads and fancy subjects or mythological scenes to be framed with gold or set with diamonds; the beau of the day was incomplete without a costly snuff-box adorned with a lid, the prettiness of which, perhaps, somewhat surpassed its pudicity. ❋ Dutton Cook (1856)
Finally, the eyes are ordered to wander indiscriminately, and with all pudicity, over the whole flock, and never to be fixed upon a pretty lamb. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)
But the pudicity of his behaviour and language covers a soul tremulous with emotion, whose passion was intensified by the discipline of a chaste intention. ❋ Mark Pattison (1848)
The Muses upon the same consideration are esteemed perpetual maids: and the Graces, for the same reason, have been held to continue in a sempiternal pudicity. ❋ John Davenport (1833)
There is a pudicity in noble minds which withholds them from speaking of their personal sufferings; proudly they hide the extent of their woes from hearts that love them, feeling ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)
Tuscany, except only upon the holy days and Sundays, at which times they were accoutred in the French mode, because they accounted it more honourable and better befitting the garb of a matronal pudicity. ❋ Fran��ois Rabelais (1518)
Not, quoth he, that I do mistrust her virtue, or that I seem to have any diffidence of her pudicity and chaste behaviour, -- for of that I have frequently had good and real proofs, -- but I must freely tell you, She is a woman. ❋ Fran��ois Rabelais (1518)
To prevent which inconveniency he did tell her many tragical stories of the total ruin of several kingdoms by adultery; did read unto her the legend of chaste wives; then made some lectures to her in the praise of the choice virtue of pudicity, and did present her with a book in commendation of conjugal fidelity; wherein the wickedness of all licentious women was odiously detested; and withal he gave her a chain enriched with pure oriental sapphires. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Modesty, patience, and obediateness are special phases of this virtue; so also are shame, pudicity and chastity, as a keeping of sexual sensuousness within bounds, a subordinating of it to its higher moral conditions; shame and pudicity are rather the inner elements, the state of the heart, and chastity rather the outward manifestation; they are an expression of the fact that this sensuous instinct has absolutely no right per se, but only in the service of wedlock-love. — ❋ 1819-1870 (1873)
Women possess a power of mimicking pudicity, a knowledge of secrets which might be those of a frightened dove, a particular register for singing, like Isabella, in the fourth act of _Robert le Diable: "Grace pour toi! ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)
Seth: Yo Rony my [pudic hair] is getting a little crazy! i should cut it soon, [winter is coming]. Do girls like it grizzly?
Rony: Come on yo i dont know, i aint trying to hear that right now dude, [T.M.I]. ❋ Mrw35t (2009)
