Where Moloch was worshipped, the people would naturally be found cruel; where the Paphian Venus, it could not be expected that they should escape the taint of a voluptuous effeminacy.
All these cousins of yours don't venture to bring any taint upon themselves by provoking him.
Without the taint of contraband there could be no justification even upon the Springbok decision as a precedent, since there was no blockaded port in question.
But it would be as wrong to infer from this that the taint was universal, as it would be to gauge our own social morality by the erratic matrons and fast young ladies with whom satirical essayists delight to point their periods.
No more adulterers stain our beds, Laws, morals, both that taint efface, The husband in the child we trace, And close on crime sure vengeance treads.
No matter what this 'Evelina' may be, the fact remains that I gave a command that our home should be free from the taint of novel reading, and my wishes have been secretly ignored.
Here touched and fused all habitudes of life, the blended races, knit by ties conserving every divergence of pursuit, all forms of faith and thought, free from assail or taint begotten of contact with aught other than themselves.
The cursings and obscenities that taint the air and brutalize life elsewhere, were in this quaint old settlement unknown.
A feeling of perplexity began to spread, and the firsttaint of distrust invaded their minds.
Crude it was; coarse it was, but no taint of viciousness was here.
Either it develops the soul's taint and evolves in it the final ferments which putrefy it once for all, or it purifies the spirit and makes it clean and clear and exquisite.
If a little musty from being emptied before they were hung up, and afterward neglected, rub the insides with vinegar and afterward remove all taint of the acid by a thorough washing in lukewarm water.
The freshness of all pudding ingredients is of much importance, as one bad article will taint the whole mixture.
It was one of the most beautiful friendships in the history of art, full of tender offices, and utterly free from the least taint of envy or selfishness.
A subject of our own time fertile in what is pathetic and awe-inspiring, and free from any taint of the vulgar and conventional.
The king was as intent as the rulers of Spain had been to keep the American possessions free from all taint of heresy.
In a later stage the taint is regarded as alive, as a demon or evil spirit alighting on and passing into the things and persons exposed to contamination.
Goethe made it one of the rules of his life to avoid everything that could suggest painful ideas, and the taint of his egotism is on a considerable class of current literature which serenely ignores the morbid aspects of life.
Death has its temporary conquest, but grace reigning through righteousness shall finally purge the last taint of mortality.
Free in mind as well as body, acquitted from all claims of honour, and able without a taint upon his name to bear most important news to England, if he could only get away from France.
Can't find all of them," he said, presenting a pile of papers big enough to taint Sahara.
My object is the largest that a man can have; and until I saw you, there was not the leasttaint of self-interest in my proceedings.
Your father, if I know him, would refuse to pay the fine; and to prison you would go, with the taint of it to lie upon your good name forever.
That which has in it the taint of self-regard so pronouncedly and dominantly as that God is shut out, is like some vegetation down in low levels at the bottom of a vale, which never has the sun to shine upon it.
CREON She shall be taken to some desert place By man untrod, and in a rock-hewn cave, With food no more than to avoid the taint That homicide might bring on all the State, Buried alive.
There is a taint worse than all taints, ignorance is the greatest taint.
He is lazar within and lime without, ye can nose him far enow, For he carries the taint of a musky ship--the reek of the slaver's dhow!
The whole atmosphere must be disinfected of all taint of opposition to slavery, before they will cease to believe that all their troubles proceed from us.
The whole atmosphere must be disinfected from all taint of opposition to slavery, before they will cease to believe that all their troubles proceed from us.
A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.
