So, by her purity, kept she my honour unstained" Beltane's long scabbard struck the carven panelling, a soft blow that yet echoed and re-echoed in vaulted arch and dim roof, and, glancing swiftly up, Sir Benedict beheld him.

Their weapons clashing but unstained with blood, A satirist him besought to intervene, Whereat he slew them as he drave between "Thy spear to me," the satirist cried the while, The hero answering, "Nay," he cried, "I'll thee revile.

Yet if war come, there is a crown in death For her that striveth well and perisheth Unstained: to die in evil were the stain!"

Yet if war come, there is a crown in death For her that striveth well and perisheth Unstained: to die in evil were the stain!

They have left unstained what there they found Freedom to worship God!"

"So died this knight of Normandy, Died with his sword unstained;" I know not that she heard my words, So near the boat had gained.

God help us, that we may endure Like him of Normandy; And die with sword unstained, that has Led us to victory.

No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around; The idle spear and shield were high uphung; The hookéd chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood; The trumpet spake not to the arméd throng; And kings sat still with awful eye, awe-filled.

I shall have left a name unstained, unsullied, to the son I love!" There was a catch in his voice, and it broke as he turned suddenly with outstretched hand.

He forbade his disciples to offer victims to the gods, ordering them to worship only at those altars which were unstained with blood.

Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod; They've left unstained what there they found, Freedom to worship God.

Emongst the rest a gentle nymph was found, Hight Astery, excelling all the crewe In curteous usage and unstained hewe.

His morals were unstained, and his tastes were domestic.

He was, it is true, far from popular, was cold and severe in manners, and irritable in temperament; but he was public-spirited, patriotic, incorruptible, lofty in sentiment, and unstained by vices.

Adj. clean, cleanly; pure; immaculate; spotless, stainless, taintless; trig; without a stain, unstained, unspotted, unsoiled, unsullied, untainted, uninfected; sweet, sweet as a nut.

Expressed his hope, for the honour of France and for the interests of Liberty, that they would not sully a Revolution hitherto unstained by a single act of vengeance.

Now, suppose there were in Calcutta an Indian lawyer of large practice and great experience in his professiona man of unstained professional and personal repute, in close touch with European society, and much respected, and the actual holder of important legal office.

The chevalier was in a splendid uniform of white and silver unstained by the forest.

No way to keep My love for them, and God, at once unstained? Con.

Through thick and thin, through fire and carnage and agony, remembering where we got them, we propose to keep them; and some proud day, when the trouble's all over, say two years hence, and those of us who are spared come home, we propose to come with these same guns unstained by the touch of a foe's hand, a virgin battery still.

The trees were bright green; the spring hopefulness was still unstained by the dusts of summer; the sky in the water was bright and clear, but broken by long waves, by quivering bands of black, as the barge drove through.

Utterly unstained it was.

There was a touch about him somewhere, it seemed, of delicate cool hands that brought with them the fragrance as of a scented summer wind; and the last thing he remembered before he sank away into welcome unconsciousness was an impression, fugitive and dreamlike, of a gentle face, unstained and pale as marble, that bent above his pillow, and, singing, called him away to forgetfulness and peace.

The collapse of mind and body which I underwent in deciding the question of marrying Rowena Fewkes or of keeping unstained and pure the great love of my life, refusing her pitiful plea and passing by on the other side, leaving her desolate and fordone, is a thing to which I hate to confess; for it was a weakness.

The ambassador replied, "Mighty sire, several ideas came across my mind, for which reason I smiled; the first was, that the wazir had spoken truth, and would now be released from prison; secondly, that your majesty will be unstained with the innocent blood of the wazir; and the third was, that the asylum of the universe, without cause or crime, ordered the merchant to be put to death.