I must air the church,it is polluted with foul smells.

But the next verse is polluted by ending with a most inharmonious letter; "Frugifera et ferta arva

The reference is to The Rambler, No. 41 (not 42 as Boswell says), where Johnson mentions 'those vexations and anxieties with which all human enjoyments are polluted.' [F-8] Bishop Sanderson described his soul as 'infinitely polluted with sin.'

Insulted, disgraced, polluted in the face of hundreds, I was capable of any act of desperation.

And this unlawful desire she could not control, but became polluted within the water, and came back to the hermitage frightened at heart.

Among the Tiyans of Malabar a girl is thought to be polluted for four days from the beginning of her first menstruation.

But, in the seventeenth century, such an intimation would, it seems, have been an instant signal for the herd of scribblers to souse upon it, like the harpies on the feast of the Trojans, and leave its mangled relics too polluted for the use of genius: "Turba sonans praedam pedibus circumvolat uncis; Polluit ore dopes.

At the ceremony called Ntonjane the young girls "are degraded and polluted at the very threshold of womanhood, and every spark of virtuous feeling annihilated" (197, 207, 185).