The Centurion
"you know that even they're too puritanical to sympathize with the likes of those two!" "be still!" i raised my paw again. "stow it, verbero" he snickered. "we're both standing naked outside a brothel. you don't want to draw attention to us.
There's a Place in the Great Pack for You
Shaggy and thick-pelted they came, from the guilty seaside cliffs, calm and slow of speech, the smell of cold fog in their undercoats and the bitter memory of puritan trials in their hearts.
He Of the Trees
Heckaday, “hail from puritan country. beleivin' the world's gon' come to an end must be in the soil, up thereabouts." “i fear it is as grave as the colonel says," orfeo tapped his beak diplomatically.
Jackie-The-Junior Shopping-and-Truth
'stupid backward religious puritanical!..' and then she seems to switch to the chinese dialect of the tongue making it hard to understand what she's saying other than she's displeased. that, and it takes her a while to calm down.
The Manimal Chronicles #18: Eye of the Storm
He'd been fighting crime since the 1930s, when he'd prevented bootleggers from smuggling liquor across the border, since unlike the u.s., canada hadn't bowed to the will of puritanical zealots who felt it was their sacred duty to safeguard other people's morals