But the money was all black an' tarnished like, by thet time, an' didn't look at all like silver.

He woke from his reveries to discover that she was giving him Tennyson, that fragment from "Guinevere" when Arthur tells her of the dream her guilt has tarnished.

There you will be granted a regular trial, to be sure, but even if you then secure an acquittal you will have suffered many indignities and your good name will be permanently tarnished.

Even the goldenrod has fallen to rust, and the stars of the aster are already tarnished.

To them they seem merely so much brass or copper or tarnished silver at the best.

The breath of scandal never tarnished her reputation; she was admired by priests as well as by nobles.

This nobleman was a younger son of that Simon de Montfort, who had conducted, with such valour and renown, the crusade against the Albigenses, and who, though he tarnished his famous exploits by cruelty and ambition, had left a name very precious to all the bigots of that age, particularly to the ecclesiastics.

I can find you a murderer who's looking for a job, or a burglar who would take anything on where there was a reasonable chance of success, or half a dozen witnessesa little tarnished, though, I'm afraid they may bewho would swear anything.

He wanted Philip's geniality and Philip's elasticitythose truly royal qualities, which success obscured and tarnished, but which under the purifying power of adversity recovered their lustre.

In a humble reliance on Divine Providence we may rest assured that while we reiterate with sincerity our endeavors to accommodate all our differences with France, the independence of our country can not be diminished, its dignity degraded, or its glory tarnished by any nation or combination of nations, whether friends or enemies.

But coward shame that had no word to say In passion's hour, with sudden icy clang Slew the bright morn, and through the tarnished day An iron bell from light to darkness rang: She shut her ears because a throstle sang, She dare not hear the little innocent bird, And a white flower made her poor head to hang To be so white!

When new, it must have had a gorgeous effect; but the gold is now tarnished, and the glasses dim.

She covered her shoulders with a small red shawl which, much to Annie's surprise, she fastened with a large and somewhat tarnished silver brooch, an ornament her niece had never before seen.

"The glory of one of our celebrated navigators is tarnished, by not merely a participation in, but by being actually the originator of, the slave-trade in the English dominions.

His attire consisted of a cloak and doublet of scarlet cloth, very much stained and tarnished, and edged with gold lace, likewise the worse for wear; jack-boots, with huge funnel tops; spurs, with enormous rowels, and a rapier of preposterous length.

What was it that tarnished the fame of Gates and Wilkinson and Burr and Conway?

It was a tarnished, misshapen lump of metal.

He touched the dust-tarnished gold braid on his sombrero and his twinkling eyes invited her to mirth.

Can you point to one act of my authority by which the interests of the nation have been compromised, or her character tarnished in the eyes of foreign states?

And the two ladies were about to see some tarnished, clumsy paintings showing nothing new or original in the world,nude, yellowish figures, just alike at first glance with no other novelty than an exaggerated emphasis on sex distinction.

As for the title of President, it had already been borne by a number of congressional politicians and had been rather tarnished by the behavior of some of them.

"It has never been tarnished and I pray Heaven that no stain may ever rest upon it.

Cut-glass ware which has become in any way blurred or tarnished can be restored by polishing it with a soft piece of newspaper.

The opal grew dim and tarnished.

Never was our national character more tarnished, and our prosperity more clouded by guilt.