Journalist Richard Brookhiser, drawing on the relevant historiography, has written that these Puritan ancestors of Adams's "believed they lived in the Bible.

We Americans, with our Puritan ancestors, are different from, say, the French, who are too busy passionately pursuing their own pleasure to worry much about other people's.

She turned to me with the long, elegant, mournful face of her Puritan ancestors and held out her hand.

It is my Puritan ancestor, who hangs yonder in the parlor.

However just the parallel drawn, in some of the preceding pages, between his Puritan ancestor and himself, it fails in this point.

Phoebe thinks she recognizes the face of her Puritan ancestor, the Colonel, without his cap, beard, or old-fashioned clothing.

You Humans talk about 'getting spaced' like your Puritan ancestors talked about 'hell-fire'!

Even in the age of the digital cordless phone, it seems that the ghosts of our Puritan ancestors are still with us.

As deeply religious as any of his Puritan ancestors, he was most broadly tolerant of the beliefs of others.

At Hepzibah's outburst, the Judge grows as stern as his Puritan ancestor to whom he bears an amazing resemblance.