Unkindly baulk'd by the prime skilful men, Abandon'd to be sullied by so mean a pen!
Besides, it has been burdened and sullied by all kinds of wearisome stories and foolish anecdotes, so that really there is more to weed out than to add.
One other was involved in it, one dearer to me than Raffles himself, one whose name shall not even now be sullied by association with ours.
Did I not say in the beginning that it should never be sullied by association with mine?
All the impulses of the Revolution were generous; all its struggles were heroic, although it was sullied with crimes, and was marked by inexperience and follies.
He was not indeed lovable, like Saint Louis; but he can never lose the admiration of mankind, since the glory of his administration was not sullied by those private vices which destroy esteem and ultimately undermine both power and influence.
There are some critics who believe him to have been sincere, and who insist that such a man "is not to be sullied by suspicion that rests on what after all might prove a fortuitous coincidence.
But this new geography is sullied by the old and incompatible error which places the source of the Nile in India.
His virtues were sullied by a choleric and suspicious temper: the first of these may be ascribed to the ignorance of control; and the second might naturally arise from a dark and imperfect view of the corruption of mankind.
He painted nature with a masterly hand, and his genius imparted elegance to vulgarity; but impurity defiles the sweetness of his numbers, and his finest productions are sullied with licentiousness.
Here, unfortunately, he sullied his name, and was fined, imprisoned and degraded, for bribery and corruption.
I did wrong: I would have sullied my innocent flower--breathed guilt on its purity: the Omnipotent snatched it from me.
A dark and sullied page of experience was fast opening upon me; but so unaccustomed was the eye which scanned it, that I could not at all, at once, believe in its truth!
Mr. Beaubien was a real gentleman, and if he had been free to follow the dictates of his honest conscience it is my strong conviction he would never have sullied our young hearts with such impure ideas.
His armour, sullied by the web of the vigilant spider, he could not look at without sorrowful emotion.
Who have taken indifferently the part of servant or mistress, without, on the one side, affecting an especial spirituality; on the other, being sullied by any worldly pride?
Yet even this acknowledgment, rather conquered by Woman than proffered by Man, has been sullied by the usual selfishness.
Unable to obtain a hearing, much less an answer, Postumius was leaving the theatre, when a drunken buffoon rushed up to him and sullied his white robe in the most disgusting manner.
The whole theatre rang with shouts of laughter and clapping of hands, which became louder and louder when Postumius held up his sullied robe and showed it to the people.
Seek ye the far-off isle; The sullied jewel of the deep, O'er whose remembered beauty angels weep, Restore its lustre and to God give spoil.
But if there were any uncleanness therein, the Word of God would not have been sullied thereby, for He is utterly unchangeable.
Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite, As ever sulliedthe fair face of light.
