Lexicographical Neighbors of Perfectnesses
Literary usage of Perfectnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Selections and Essays by John Ruskin (1918)
"Alas! if read rightly, these perfectnesses are signs of a slavery in our England
a thousand times more bitter and more degrading than that of the scourged ..."
2. Problems of the Playwright by Clayton Meeker Hamilton (1917)
"There is no vastness and no grandeur in their structure—only an intimacy of little
perfectnesses. One feels a bit afraid lest they might be seen by some one ..."
3. Guild Socialism: An Historical and Critical Analysis by Niles Carpenter (1922)
"Alas I if read rightly, these perfectnesses are signs of a slavery in our England
a thousand times more bitter and more degrading than that of the scourged ..."
4. Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher (1875)
"... wished, done; and its perfectnesses represent more or less the advance of the
struggles which are going on between the animal man and the spiritual man. ..."
5. The Complete Works by John Ruskin (1894)
"... these perfectnesses are signs of a slavery in our England a thousand times
more bitter and more degrading than that of the scourged African, ..."
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