The king was regarded as guilty and damned; his ministers looked upon him as a Samson shorn of his locks; his very wife feared contamination from his society; his children, as a man blasted with the malediction of Heaven.

So many of his near connections are against us, that he could hardly escape the contamination; and the consequences would be inevitable.

The wrinkled beldams involved themselves in their rusty cloaks as he passed by; even the mild-featured maidens seemed to dread contamination; and many a stern old man arose, and turned his repulsive and unheavenly countenance upon the gentle boy, as if the sanctuary were polluted by his presence.

While this impudent evasion of vigilance was successfully practised by so old an offender, the trio of sentinels, with their volunteer assistant the pilgrim, manifested the greatest anxiety to prevent the contamination of admitting the highest executioner of the law to form one of the strangely assorted company.

It was ... because ... you seemed to think my society contamination ... to an honest boy.

Graham turned away, his hand still outstretched, as if it had touched some poisonous thing and might retain a contamination.

With such examples before their eyes, need they leave their homes to seek contamination, or to learn to do evil.

he would upon no consideration admit, that his ears should suffer such contamination.

but it surely would be a cause of wonder, if, with such leprous members, the sound and respectable body of its professors should escape the suspicion of partaking their contamination.

To the fire, to the fire with them all, even to the smallest scrap of paper, even to the most illegible scrawl, if we wish to be certain of destroying the contamination of evil.

If those fingers, which are now as white as windsor soap can make them, could complain of their wrongs, what contaminations with dusty Ainsworth and Scapulas would they enumerate!

If plants had souls, they would be pure ones, since they can bear such contamination and not be harmed,nay, since even from such foul food as we give them they can evolve results so beautiful.

They see the antagonism to all foreign ideas, formerly considered as a virtue by every true Moslim, daily losing ground, and they are filled with consternation by observing in their own ranks the contamination of modernist ideas.