1 And believe me, if I still value my life it is only because I still hope to meet such a divine creature, who will regenerate, purify, and elevate me.
2 To receive that science it is necessary to purify and renew one's inner self, and so before one can know, it is necessary to believe and to perfect one's self.
3 Then change it, purify thyself; and as thou art purified, thou wilt gain wisdom.
4 de Villefort to purify Marseilles of his partisans.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi. 5 But the corpses are now all piled up in the gatehouse that is in the outer court, and Ulysses has lit a great fire to purify the house with sulphur.
6 He thus typified the constant introspection wherewith he tortured, but could not purify himself.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART 7 Everywhere Carol heard that the war was going to bring a basic change in psychology, to purify and uplift everything from marital relations to national politics, and she tried to exult in it.
8 It needs sheer sensuality even to purify and quicken the mind.
9 We men here, all save Jonathan, have seen with their own eyes what is to be done before that place can be purify.
10 So at last having attained to land beyond our hopes, we purify ourselves in Jove's worship, and kindle altars of offering, and make the Actian shore gay with the games of Ilium.
11 For he that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read but the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced of the contrary.
12 Very soon public sentiment began making itself felt, in demanding a purifying of the ministry.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XIV. 13 It was easy to promise self-abnegation when self was wrapped up in another, and heart and soul were purified by a sweet example.
14 She brought the fire and sulphur, as he had bidden her, and Ulysses thoroughly purified the cloisters and both the inner and outer courts.
15 My very shoes and stockings were purified and rendered presentable.