All the glories of Edward's reign terminated with the civil wars, where his laurels, too, were extremely sullied with blood, violence, and cruelty.

I would not have my reign sullied by any of her mandates.

Those who are interested in his memory will know to whom I allude, and possibly be grateful for the tribute to his character, however much it may have been sullied by his temporary absence of manly discretion.

All comes sullied or wasted to us: and were they to entertain this Age, they could not make so plenteous treatments out of such decayed fortunes.

But with one sullied finger, which did spot her, Which was her own too; but who was cause of it?

Sallied, sullied: compare sallets, 67, 103.

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.

The fumes and vapours that rise from his spleen and hypochondrias have so smutched and sullied his brain (like a room that smokes) that his understanding is blear-eyed and has no right perception of anything.

In the year 1716, a wealthy lady and her nine-year-old daughter were hanged for witchcraft, and even thirty or forty years later the records of Great Britain are sullied by another similar case of persecution.

But where was he who sullied Her once unspotted name; Who lured her from life's brightness To agony and shame?

We laid our combined bag on the cool stone floor in the game larder; "And verily the silent creatures made A splendid sight, together thus exposed; Dead, but not sullied or deformed by death, That seem'd to pity what he could not spare.

It requires a mind deeply toned to sympathy with the inner significance of all things to" "Contemporary testimony is absolutely necessary, if not suspiciously sullied by credulity or deceit,in which case, the nearest trustworthy historian, if not more than a hundred years from the specified time, is incomparably preferable.

For many years Albano, the young Spanish Count Cesara, had lived within sight of the capital city of the state of Hohenfliess; yet he had never entered ithis mother, so his father told him, had shut it against him, desiring that he should be reared in the Carthusian monastery of rural life, not sullied in his youth by mingling with courtiers and men of the world.

The war which supervened was one of great triumph to the royal army, if indeed the massacre of his own subjects can reflect glory upon a sovereign; but the laurels gained by Louis and his troops were sullied by a series of atrocious and bootless cruelties, which made them matter of reproach rather than of praise.

Pencils were intended for marking fair surfacesmight one not be used on this occasion for the cleaning of a sullied surface, that of a besmirched honour?

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.

To be a traitor seemed the only blot that remained for his sullied scutcheon, and she had never dreamed of that.

In these regions the traveller is often overtaken by the most severe weather, even after days of cloudless beauty, when the glaciers glitter in the sunshine, and the pink flowers of the rhododendron appear as if they were never to be sullied by the tempest.

Then there is an explosion of deep-seated and violent shocks, from which infinitely more is expected than they can accomplish, and which, even when they are successful, cost the people very dear, for their success is sullied and incomplete.

There the things stood, their polished surfaces sullied by the greasy finger-marks of the wretch who had murdered my wife.

If such too had been the Conduct of all his Ancestors, he might truly have boasted at this Day, that the Antiquity of his Family had never been sullied by a Trade; a Merchant had never been permitted with his whole Estate to purchase a Room for his Picture in the Gallery of the COVERLEYS, or to claim his Descent from the Maid of Honour.

Wait till this bright edge be sullied with my sweet love's blood.

When a woman has once set up for an Independent, when, scorning the opinion of the world, she walks forth conscious in her own integrity and virtue, though no stain may have sullied her conduct or name, though she may be innately amiable and good, yet every gentler female will shrink from such a character, and tremble lest they should become like her.

And so, today, though conscious of no fault, I stand before you sullied, and atone For youthful heedlessness that passed for wrong.

Like water for the gross and earthly stain There is a cleanser for our sullied souls.