He became effeminate, and committed crimes which sullied his fame.

Only one misfortune sullied the glory of these exploits.

Graunt, at a time when the transactions of queen Mary's reign must have been well enough remembered, declares, that Ascham always made open profession of the reformed religion, and that Englesfield and others often endeavoured to incite Gardiner against him, but found their accusations rejected with contempt: yet he allows, that suspicions and charges of temporization and compliance, had somewhat sullied his reputation.

Virgil said, "No;" for the stupid and sullied lives which they led on earth swept their faces away from all distinction for ever.

You bore the part of a man in a revolution; if guilty of any crime, it was a political one, in no way sullying your honor.

He resisted the most powerful temptations, and there is no recorded act which sullies his memory.

And we are children of the King of kings, we are washed and clothed by Him, and the more our garments are fitted for our future station, the fairer are our inward persons; the more do we feel annoyed and grieved by any foul spot, which could sully their purity and disfigure their beauty.

If they have suffered thee to go at large, it hath only been that there might be no hazard of sullying the ermine of justice, by a premature and not sufficiently supported judgment.

The people are quiet and peaceable in disposition, and one secret of their peaceful dwelling together is found in the absence of jealousy, a characteristic or vice which does not seem to have penetrated into the houses on the cliffs, or to have sullied the dispositions of these people with such a remarkable and creditable history.

none But this white, fatted youngling could atone, 30 By his untimely fate, that impious smoke, That sullied earth, and did Heaven's pity choke.

It was said by the household of Venetia when a child, that she had never cried; not a single tear had ever sullied that sunny face.

Then he denied the matter: "Kinsman, whence come these words with which you are trying to sully my family?" "Miserable cheat!" cried the other, "you are in very truth an old tortoise.

To outrage Right, to suppress the Assembly, to abolish the Constitution, to strangle the Republic, to overthrow the Nation, to sully the Flag, to dishonor the Army, to suborn the Clergy and the Magistracy, to succeed, to triumph, to govern, to administer, to exile, to banish, to transport, to ruin, to assassinate, to reign, with such complicities that the law at last resembles a foul bed of corruption.

Unhappy creatures, who sully your gods; there is not a lofty idea that you have not tarnished.

At all events, nothing is more to its taste than the rumour that detracts from the great or sullies the good; and so long as the rumour be entertaining, it has little concern for its truth.

Under the despotic influence of these enchanted feelings, Venetia was fast growing into womanhood, without a single cloud having ever disturbed or sullied the pure and splendid heaven of her domestic life.

It has been said that the trouble began when in his early youth the Prince expressed sympathy with his mother; it may be that it started from the fact that the Prince was the son of a woman who had sullied the honour of the Royal House.

I thought I had found one thing in the world which I would regret to leave" "And you really believed that I could sully the great love I bear you by stooping tothat!

Gustavus Adolphus, alone, sullied the lustre of his heroic character by no act of revenge; and the aversion which the Bavarians felt toward his religion, far from making him depart from the obligations of humanity toward that unfortunate people, seemed to impose upon him the stricter duty to honor his religion by a more constant clemency.

"Perhaps," says M. Augustin Thierry, "these thirteen under banishment, shut out forever from their native town at the very moment it became free, had been distinguished amongst all the burghers of Laon by their opposition to the power of the lords; perhaps they had sullied by deeds of violence this patriotic opposition; perhaps they had been taken at haphazard to suffer alone for the crimes of their fellow-citizens."

She is made capable of friendship for man without sullying her soul, or giving occasion for reproach.

One deed of infamy sullied his success.

Cannot we think of Burns, or Thompson, without sullying the thought with a reflection out of place upon Lord Rochester?

To the first-born, Piero, came the great inheritance of his father's place and power, and no man ever entered into a greater possession,a possession, so firm, so unquestioned and so portentous, that nothing seemed likely to disturb its equilibrium or to sully its triumph.

Bloodshed, let us not forget, would sully our banner; to the right of the slaves, such a crisis would be forever opposed, and who knows whether a terrible return might not burst upon them?