To do so would be to acknowledge himself baffled and defeated, to tarnish the prestige which he held so dear, and to cripple the plans that he had formed against Persia.
Had the scandal of that old elopement survived to tarnish his fame and injure his success?
He felt that such a slight would tarnish the whole glory of his life, whose boast was to have done many things that were actually wicked, but not one that was merely weak.
If he gave way, he contemplated the tarnish of his ancient glory; if he fought, the destruction of his followers.
She wrote an affectionate letter to Edward, informing him of the change in her circumstances and her present occupation, saying she did not think the occupation would diminish her worth, or tarnish her good name.
The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny.
My lord, I cannot tarnish my silver shield by conniving at falsehood, or keeping silence when mine Honour bids me speak.
She held the obsolete opinion that marriage unconsecrated by love was a deadlier sin than the one into which she had fallen unawares; and which, at least, need not tarnishor sadden any life save her own.
An unknown force was urging her to speak openly to her husband, to rid herself of the shadow that had begun to tarnish the bright surface of life.
If a girl of high ideals is thinking about them now and knows that she has of late been tempted to lower them a little, let me ask her to look at them very earnestly before she consents to tarnish them even a little.
Essay then thy base and low-minded temptations, thy corrupt and sophistical reasonings, to tarnish the unsullied purity of her mind, and it is well.
The scenes of lawless violence which have been acted in some portions of our country, rare and restricted as they have been, have done more to tarnish its reputation than a thousand libels.
It would not be appropriate for me to enter, in this letter, into a defense of the practice of duelling, nor to maintain at length, that it does not tarnish the character of a people to acknowledge a standard of honor.
Even when a frame is used, it is best to bind the edges as this will prevent tarnish from the air.
She escaped with his tarnish on her hand; but he respected her promise, and troubled her no more by contact.
Prosper was a youth to whom life was a very pretty thing; he could not afford to havetarnish on the glass; he must have pleasant looks about him and a sweet air, or at least scope for the making of them.
Jealous and ambitious men were conspiring to tarnish the fair fame of the commander-inchief, to weaken the affections of the people for him, and to place the supreme military command in other hands.
My lords, his majesty succeeded to an empire as great in extent as its reputation was unsullied, Shall we tarnish the luster of this nation by an ignominious surrender of its rights and fairest possessions?
Sampso and I have for the last hour been wondering how you managed to blacken and tarnish your armor in this manner.
Only fire can tarnishthe polish of steel in that way.
The first scaffold erected in that gently mannered island would arise for Gabriel, and that ignominious punishmenttarnish the whole population and imprint upon it the first brand of disgrace.
Such tidings fell like a thunderbolt upon the old warrior, already embittered by his reverses: he was heart-broken that such storm-clouds should tarnish the end of his glorious day.
A faith so fresh that it seems that nothing can ever tarnish it.
What cries of joy he uttered when in the hallowed works which he could not read without trembling he felt once more his old emotion, ardent still, with nothing to tarnish the purity of what he loved!
The envious may attempt to tarnish his fair name, but their efforts recoil upon their own heads.
How many others are pleased, to tarnish the honour of the nation, to represent their countrymen as composed of rebels or cowards!
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