It is but fair, after casting upon the corps the aspersion of flight from before the enemy, to do it what justice is possible, and to palliate the bad conduct of the whole by bearing testimony to the good conduct of some of its parts.
Merely to characterize as ungenerous this aspersion upon the courage of such men as then served under Hooker, savors of error on the side of leniency.
Those alone who know us realize how unfounded that aspersion is.
Mrs. Ercott smiled, and made no answer to an aspersionshe had heard before.
Another aspersion upon the noble lute was, that it was "a Woman's Instrument.
You have done and endured more than any living statesman for the advantage of your fellow-citizens, so that I will not cast at you the aspersion of class-blindness.
The one called the others godless--the others threw back the aspersionof bigotry.
Accoutred in the best manner they could," they rode to Westminster in coaches, "to prevent the aspersion that they were of the basest sort of people only which were that way affected.
One of them was objected to by the court as too dictatorial in tone and as casting an aspersion on parliament.
Her anger flamed forth at this unjustifiable aspersionon the part of a man who was taking only an inactive share in the war.
He apprehended quite clearly that Mrs Aplin was desirous of warning him against a mesalliance, and he considered it not only an unwarranted impertinence, but a mischievous and scurrilous aspersion of Brenda's reputation.
On the receipt of the first of the anonymous letters sent to her, Mrs. Glenarm had not only summoned Geoffrey himself to refute the aspersion cast upon him, but had forwarded a private copy of the letter to his relatives at Swanhaven.
Mr. Bishopriggs stopped in the middle of the room, thunder-struck at the aspersion cast on the wine.
The cadet blushed at the aspersion upon the reputation of the British Army into which he had been betrayed.
Of our Intelligence work the less said the better--by which I intend no aspersion but quite the contrary.
The absence alike of the blessing and the aspersion on Peter sets up the surmise that both are quite late, and that the insertion of one elicited the other.
An infinite quantity of mere insolence and mere personal aspersion arises round every problem that disturbs widespread prejudice: we have seen some of it even in a survey which aims solely at bringing out the main arguments on our issue.
The countrymen, and in one remarkable instance, a countrywoman of Beaumarchais, have been particularly industrious in fastening thisaspersion upon their English neighbours.
The aspersion however did not always rest with Frenchmen.
The aspersion cast upon the English on the Picard battle-fields continued to be handed down in camp story and in rugged vaux-de-vire.
For the Satanic press, by its coappearance with the apostolic, it is no more an aspersion to that, than to the true sun is the coappearance of the mock one.
Even a samurai of the lowest rank would consider such a declaration an aspersion upon his family honor.
Yet any thought of aspersionupon the justice of Your Highness was as far from my mind as from the Daimio’s.
Women do not fight; but as society is constituted there is no being, of whatever sex, who ought to submit to the indignity involved in an aspersion on all his or her past life, be that life regulated as by a pendulum.
You are wrong; the lover who suspects her casts an aspersion on her entire life.
Up to the present moment we possess no certain proof from the period of the second century, in favor of the fact that baptism by aspersion was then even facultatively administered; for Tertullian (De Poenit.
De Baptismo, 12) is uncertain; and the age of those pictures upon which is represented a baptism by aspersion is not certain.
No Protestant ever passed a more scathing aspersion on the whole body of the curia than is thus set in the forefront of the Decameron.
Tertullian also speaks of the "aspersion of water" in baptism--asperginem aquae.
The testimony of the Catacombs respecting the mode of baptism, as far as it extends, is strongly in favour of aspersion or affusion.
On reading the account of the Baptism of St. Paul and the jailer the context leaves a strong impression on the mind that both received the Sacrament by aspersion or by infusion.
Moreover, if immersion is the only valid form of Baptism, what has become of the millions of souls who, in every age and country, have been regenerated by the infusion or the aspersion of water in the Christian Church?
At the door they receive aspersion with consecrated water.
To pass any aspersion on the bibulous propensities of a tenant of mine named Flaherty would be impossible.
In these democratic days, it is as well to resist any undue aspersion on the upper classes.
You are wrong, the lover who suspects her casts an aspersion on her entire life, I know it; her plea is her tears, her past life, her devotion and her patience.
Let any one cast an aspersion upon Mrs. Cholmondeley in my presence, and I shall prove that a duel is one of the cardinal virtues, madam," said Dick.
Moreover, you cast an aspersion on the taste, the discrimination, and the prudence of the young lady.
The only satirical remark I was ever guilty of, was extorted by an aspersion of this kind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aspersion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
