One summer's evening they were out late, and Miss Jessamine was becoming anxious, when Jackanapes presented himself with a ghastly face all besmirched with tears.
Through the last-named Princess a sad stain besmirched the shield of the silver lilies.
Thus, this being bedraggled and besmirched in painful intimate sport was for him a homecoming.
Such was man's ignorance of God or gods, of which the most intelligent believed nothing and the most ignorant believed the myths that made their besmirched flesh hallowed enough to be at one with them.
It was obsessed by being besmirched and colorizing the besmirching.
And yet it was the general feeling that one whose name had been so sadly besmirched must be kept at more than arm's-length.
The Haldane who had meditated "gloomy grandeur" would not have looked at the poor, besmirched Haldane who had just accepted what the world would regard as charity.
The Parisian casuists looked for another sort of equality, an equality based on loss of virtue, saying that women should come to marriage as besmirched as men,--the right to take lovers.
There was no room for argument It is as impossible to suffer that to be besmirched as to hear the woman you respect and love insulted: there is but one thing to do, to hate and kill.
She, who was so chaste and modest, she, whose whole life had been absorbed by her love for her brother and never yet had been besmirched with one thought of evil, nearly died of shame, when she understood the nature of the charge against her.
She, or someone in association with her, has besmirched England's honour, and brought us to the very verge of a terrible national disaster.
Her family were well-known in Yorkshire, respected throughout the county, and no breath of scandal had ever besmirched the fair fame of either Robert Laing's widow or his daughter.
Christophe was pacing up and down the room in anger: he was in a mood to slay these men who had made this woman suffer and besmirched her.
Thou hast put out the fire, Thou hast besmirchedmy soul.
It is a picture of vulgar pretence, by which her fair name has been besmirched and disgraced.
And Caenis is said to have accumulated a fortune, and besmirchedthe honest Emperor's name, by a wholesale traffic in State secrets and appointments.
Handfuls of mud were showered against the coach, and Barrington's ruffles were besmirched with it.
Every man was tasked to the utmost of his strength; and the garrison, gaunt, worn, besmirched with mud, looked less like soldiers than like overworked laborers.
A timely monition to an age which has seen this great name besmirched by American and European imbecility!
Now it rose before him so blackened and besmirched that he thought of it only with anger and disgust.
It was as though a mourner, shut in for years with sacred memories, became suddenly aware that all the time, in a sordid world outside, these very memories had been the sport of an unkind and insolent chatter that besmirched them.
He was, therefore, out of Parliament and out of office; estranged from multitudes of old friends; his name besmirched by some of the most damaging accusations that can be brought against a man's heart and honor.
The idol might fall, and become besmirched in the unsuspected mire, but her frank, kindly hands were ready to set it up again and again, and perhaps in time her broader knowledge would teach her how to secure it from further disaster.
Then I fear not mine enemies," she exclaimed, drawing herself up and flinging back her blood--besmirched silken robe with a defiant air.
Our hands and faces werebesmirched with blood, as larger and more impassable grew the barrier of the slain.
After an experience which had besmirched every ideal and bemocked every faith, the young Frenchman's talk had carried the lad once more into the full tide of poetry and romance.
Italy, for instance, which is the home of the Pope and which has been the home of the Catholic Church since the existence of her abominations, is one of the most immoral countries that ever besmirched the face of the earth.
The fusty black coat, which sat ill upon his shambling frame, was allbesmirched with spilled snuff, and the lees of a thousand quart pots.
And when I see a girl drinking liqueurs, smoking cigarettes, and doing things like that, I feel that somehow my ideal is, well, besmirched somehow.
You told all sorts of lies about him, and you besmirched my name; he your son, and I your wife, the woman you promised to love and cherish, and then deserted.
Give him a flagon of Rhenish to drink with his besmirched baaren-hauters and lance-knechts.
Content," said King Richard, "though I should have liked to have interrogated that caitiff while his gay doublet was yet besmirched with sand.
Mealy generalities are of no use, and it is a mere derision to pretend that nearly every branch of sport is not imperilled and besmirched by betting.
Theresa was vaguely certain that he was besmirched by all sorts of dreadful things--drinking, and betting--if not worse.
It was not that her Mary seemed to her in the smallest degree besmirched by the experience she had passed through; that any bloom had been shaken from the flower.
But--to do him justice--Meryon knew nothing of those facts that gave such an intolerable significance to any contact whatever between his besmirched life and that of Hester Fox-Wilton.
