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...looking up, she would detect the eyes of a young maiden glancing at the scarlet letter, shyly and aside, and quickly averted, with a faint, chill crimson in her cheeks as if her purity were somewhat sullied by that momentary glance.
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sullied = dirtied
- I crept into your house while you were away and sullied your wife.† (source)
- A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her.† (source)
- All Louvre night wardens are in the Sully Wing being questioned.† (source)
- Letters to the newspaper condemned the jury for its callousness and for sullying the name of justice in Savannah.† (source)
- Well, Bud, I don't mean to sully your reputation, but you just ran away from that man all the way across the state, I think I'd better hand-deliver you.† (source)
- I'd never known love so pure, and I was afraid that it would become sullied by my mother.† (source)
- My mother's face was wavering, soft and malleable—almost as soft and malleable as the image of her that floated on the sullied water in the sink.† (source)
- Long after the last tinge of pink was gone, I kept going— rinsing and re-washing the hand towels I'd sullied, which still had a suspicious flush—and then, so tired I was reeling, got in the shower with water so hot I could barely stand it and scrubbed myself down all over again, head to toe, grinding the bar of soap in my hair and weeping at the suds that ran into my eyes.† (source)
- Worse, he is sullying the only thing her family owns: its good name.† (source)
- Because the world he lives in is rather sullied and unworthy, fallen even.† (source)
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- Previously Hall had invented a machine capable of typing in Braille, the Hall Braille Writer, which he never patented because he felt profit should not sully the cause of serving the blind.† (source)
- Blood dripped from his chin as he cut down the net, sullying and sanctifying his prize.† (source)
- I had a vision of anger spreading through me like a malignant tumor, sullying the best hours of my life and rendering me incapable of tenderness or mercy.† (source)
- Maybe I would waste my time on skills I didn't care about—like sword fighting or badminton—but I would not sully the memory of my once-perfect music and archery.† (source)
- In any case, it did not seem that the purpose of the story was to sully the name of Dr. Juvenal Urbino, whose memory enjoyed universal respect, but to injure the husband of Lucrecia del Real, who had been elected President of the Social Club the week before.† (source)
- It left Eragon feeling sullied.† (source)
- Miss Sully blew her whistle.† (source)
- Naturally, my father would have felt this loss keenly; but to make matters worse the usual comfort a father has in these situations — that is, the notion that his son gave his life gloriously for king and country — was sullied by the fact that my brother had perished in a particularly infamous manoeuvre.† (source)
- And for a fleeting moment, the sight of them threatened to connect her to another world, a place which she was in the act of altering and which she knew she would find sullied with guilt if she were to let herself but look.† (source)
- I was glad the water was not stagnant-it would be upsetting to sully it, filthy as I was, if that were the case.† (source)
- The first peep out of him and into print it goes, sullying his good name far and wide.† (source)
- Don't want to keep Sully waiting.† (source)
- You don't need to sweep the—" Suddenly the broom in Sully's hands was no longer a broom but a broken spear that he jutted into the officer's throat.† (source)
- Which is why we can't let a lying imposter like you sully his good name!† (source)
- The Three, fairest of all, the Elf-lords hid from him, and his hand never touched them or sullied them.† (source)
- All that is sure in the descent is that we will arrive sullied and bruised and unable to regain our former place without hard effort.† (source)
- At his most elevated moments, he is so exciting and stimulating to be around: animated, courteous and entertaining; at his low points he is sullied, dark and brooding.† (source)
- If Fortier didn't emerge soon, he would go to the authorities-the French military would like nothing better than to drop a few bunker busters on this site and rid the world of the men who had sullied their reputation.† (source)
- She really didn't want to have to start following him around with a pooper scooper, so as not to sully the newly sodded lawns.† (source)
- She sends us out of doors—for fear we might breathe and somehow sully the pristine rooms of Spence—which suits everyone fine, as it's a particularly lovely day.† (source)
- He went on boiling with rage for several days and the next Sunday we were treated to a searing address on the toleration of Mutants which sullied the Purity of our community.† (source)
- I thought all he wanted was to have nothing unusual sully his days, that what he disliked or feared most was uncertainty.† (source)
- I didn't see the sense in sullying whatever pleasant memories she had of her only brother.† (source)
- He wouldn't want it sullied by, you know, you.† (source)
- Maraa Isabel is enraged; they are sullying one of the few things she has — her honor.† (source)
- It may be James McDermott, come here to sully Grace's reputation.† (source)
- After handing a slip of paper to Miss Sully, he caught my eye.† (source)
- Then you're going to love Miss Sully's idea of fun.† (source)
- "Elliot, go ahead and take first pick," Miss Sully said.† (source)
- Miss Sully called from her position between first and second bases.† (source)
- I eyed the building doors but knew it was to no avail; Miss Sully was hard-core.† (source)
- Wet blotches quickly sullied the virgin cloth.† (source)
- Aside from sullying my own paws, you're now drowning in debt to a person of questionable character.† (source)
- Nor do I wish to sully Lightbringer with a brother's blood.† (source)
- He stood in the doorway as Sully slowly picked up the spray bottle and washed down his sink.† (source)
- You wouldn't want to sully her memory, to disappoint her, would you?† (source)
- Grey Worm said only that the Un sullied would obey, whatever might be asked of them.† (source)
- "Sully's not even in this episode," she announces.† (source)
- Four more officers ran past me with pepper spray and shot it into Sully's face.† (source)
- She didn't talk about her lust for Byron Sully in front of everyone, did she?† (source)
- "The king means to fight in the melee today," Ser Barristan said as they were passing Ser Meryn's shield, its paint sullied by a deep gash where Loras Tyrell's lance had scarred the wood as he drove him from his saddle.† (source)
- 'All right," Miss Sully said to him.† (source)
- "She's out!" cried Miss Sully.† (source)
- Miss Sully asked.† (source)
- Miss Sully called out.† (source)
- And though in near time we did sleep together (with a genuinely pleasing, if sober, conviviality), I came to think of that first interlude with a somewhat sorrowful fondness, for I saw that our days together were perhaps sullied from the very beginning and all the way through, right up to the last.† (source)
- Even Dr. Barnard, who had made a study of the ANC, had received most of his information from police and intelligence files, which were in the main inaccurate and sullied by the prejudices of the men who had gathered them.† (source)
- wide space of intolerable orderliness between his legs; the openness that held no sign, no sign at all, of the animal that lurked in his trousers; looked away from the insolent nostrils and the smile that kept slipping and falling, falling, falling so she wanted to reach out with her hand to catch it before it fell to the pavement and was sullied by the cigarette butts and bottle caps and spittle at his feet and the feet of other men who sat or stood around outside the pool hall, calling, singing out to her and Nel and grown women too with lyrics like pig meat and brown sugar and jailbait and O Lord, what have I done to deserve the wrath, and Take me, Jesus, I have seen the promised land† (source)
- Sully's attack on CO Smythe had just been collateral damage, meant to shake up the staffing on our tier so that part two of the plan could be carried out.† (source)
- Sully, however, wasn't there.† (source)
- Sully, what are you doing?† (source)
- Sully.† (source)
- Sully," the officer said.† (source)
- Ever since then, all the most important events in his own history had occurred in the blessed month when this sinful and sullied world puts on white as if to commemorate the Annunciation, and becomes, for a little, lovely enough to be in truth the Bride of Christ.† (source)
- None of the horde of idle men in the outer courts did Wang Lung and his family hate and fear as they did this cousin of theirs; this, although the men tore at the trees and the flowering shrubs of plum and almond and broke them as they would, and though they crushed the delicate carvings of chairs with their great leathern boots, and though they sullied with their private filth the pools where the flecked and golden fish swam, so that the fish died and floated on the water and rotted there, with their white bellies upturned.† (source)
- Be sure to be at Sully's, for I must see you.† (source)
- The fair page now lying before me need not be sullied with my real appellation.† (source)
- But Magua is pledged not to sully the lilies of France.† (source)
- He was afraid of sullying what his soul was brimful of.† (source)
- "I shall sully the purity of your floor," said he, "but you must excuse me for once."† (source)
- "He will sully it then," returned Lucien; "for I am low—very low."† (source)
- You make me a liar by such language: you sully my honour.† (source)
- He was dressed now: he still looked pale, but he was no longer gory and sullied.† (source)
- I let her bawl away, to her heart's content, KITTY O'SHEA and the rest of it till at last she called that lady a name that I won't sully this Christmas board nor your ears, ma'am, nor my own lips by repeating.† (source)
- When viewed in the light of formal logic, there is not one thing of which to be ashamed; but nevertheless a shame rises within me at the recollection, and in the pride of my manhood I feel that my manhood has in unaccountable ways been smirched and sullied.† (source)
- Moreover, the teachers of the early Church had never wearied of warning people against the lies of the philosophers and poets of antiquity, and in particular against sullying themselves with the lush eloquence of a Virgil.† (source)
- He had not wished to tell her about the case because he had not wished her to sully her mind with the idea that there was such a thing as a brother officer who could be a blackmailer—and he had wanted to protect the credit of his old light of love.† (source)
- Would not something good and sacred within her be sullied by a constant exposure to the effect she had upon these vile border men?† (source)
- She had done everything to him except to criticise him—this she had not done— it seemed to him only because it might have sullied the utter indifference she manifested and sincerely felt toward him.† (source)
- Like all who have been previsioned by suffering, she could, in the words of M. Sully-Prudhomme, hear a penal sentence in the fiat, "You shall be born," particularly if addressed to potential issue of hers.† (source)
- Obviously, I should have preferred to ask you, as though it had been a matter of little or no importance, to give up your Nuit de Cleopatre (since you compel me to sully my lips with so abject a name), in the hope that you would go to it none the less.† (source)
- As a matter of fact, petted as he was by his two sisters and his old aunt, he had retained from this purely feminine education manners that were almost candid and stamped with a charm that nothing had yet been able to sully.† (source)
- You may talk of Bouguereau if you will: there is a cheerful disgustingness in the sound which excites laughter; but let us not sully our chaste lips with the names of J. Ruskin, G. F. Watts, or E. B. Jones.'† (source)
- So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing.† (source)
- Since our intent all along has been to make him no better or worse than he was, it should also be noted that when poor Wehsal approached him privately one evening and begged with ashen words for God's sake to please tell him in strict confidence about his experiences that night of the Mardi Gras party, Hans Castorp had complied with calm charity, although, as the reader can well imagine, he did not permit anything the least bit base or frivolous to sully that hushed scene.† (source)
- When she had administered these restoratives, as I was still quite hysterical, and unable to control my sobs, she put me on the sofa, with a shawl under my head, and the handkerchief from her own head under my feet, lest I should sully the cover; and then, sitting herself down behind the green fan or screen I have already mentioned, so that I could not see her face, ejaculated at intervals, 'Mercy on us!' letting those exclamations off like minute guns.† (source)
- The stream, like a sullied looking-glass in a gloomy place, reflected the clouds heavily; and the low banks leaned over here and there, as if they were half curious, and half afraid, to see their darkening pictures in the water.† (source)
- It was a mere head and shoulders, done in what is technically termed a vignette manner; much in the style of the favorite heads of Sully.† (source)
- —Worthy Thane," he continued, addressing Cedric, "may we pray you to name to us some Norman whose mention may least sully your mouth, and to wash down with a goblet of wine all bitterness which the sound may leave behind it?"† (source)
- Your good father would be sore grieved did he find me interfering to sully or carry off the laurels he is about to win; and I cannot command the Corporal without equally commanding the Sergeant.† (source)
- How or by what means—for I scorn to sully her cause by falsehood or deceit—I do not know; at present I do not know, but I am not alone or single-handed in this business.† (source)
- It was true that the association with this man had been fatal to him—true that if he had had the thousand pounds still in his hands with all his debts unpaid he would have returned the money to Bulstrode, and taken beggary rather than the rescue which had been sullied with the suspicion of a bribe (for, remember, he was one of the proudest among the sons of men)—nevertheless, he would not turn away from this crushed fellow-mortal whose aid he had used, and make a pitiful effort to get acquittal for himself by howling against another.† (source)
- For he was there quite quiet, not even suspecting that the ridicule of his name would henceforth sully hers as well as his.† (source)
- Locusta and Agrippina, living at the same time, were an exception, and proved the determination of providence to effect the entire ruin of the Roman empire, sullied by so many crimes.† (source)
- His skin became mottled with large brown spots, that fearfully sullied the lustre of his native ebony, while his enormous lips gradually compressed around two rows of ivory that had hitherto been shining in his visage like pearls set in jet.† (source)
- His nether garment was a yellow nankeen, closely fitted to the shape, and tied at his bunches of knees by large knots of white ribbon, a good deal sullied by use.† (source)
- "I—I am a Jew"—Ben-Hur seemed shrinking within himself as he spoke—"and, though I wear a Roman name, I dared not do professionally a thing to sully my father's name in the cloisters and courts of the Temple.† (source)
- I did wrong: I would have sullied my innocent flower — breathed guilt on its purity: the Omnipotent snatched it from me.† (source)
- Mr. Bumble, having spread a handkerchief over his knees to prevent the crumbs from sullying the splendour of his shorts, began to eat and drink; varying these amusements, occasionally, by fetching a deep sigh; which, however, had no injurious effect upon his appetite, but, on the contrary, rather seemed to facilitate his operations in the tea and toast department.† (source)
- Gentlemen, you've sullied my heart!† (source)
- Even in her most uneasy moments—even when she had been agitated by Mrs. Cadwallader's painfully graphic report of gossip—her effort, nay, her strongest impulsive prompting, had been towards the vindication of Will from any sullying surmises; and when, in her meeting with him afterwards, she had at first interpreted his words as a probable allusion to a feeling towards Mrs. Lydgate which he was determined to cut himself off from indulging, she had had a quick, sad, excusing vision of the charm there might be in his constant opportunities of companionship with that fair creature, who most likely shared his other tastes as she evidently did his delight in music.† (source)
- And so, as we have said, the iron gate leading into the kitchen-garden had been closed up and left to the rust, which bade fair before long to eat off its hinges, while to prevent the ignoble glances of the diggers and delvers of the ground from presuming to sully the aristocratic enclosure belonging to the mansion, the gate had been boarded up to a height of six feet.† (source)
- or Sully, Louis XIII.† (source)
- He drew over the picture the sheet of thin paper on which I was accustomed to rest my hand in painting, to prevent the cardboard from being sullied.† (source)
- 'Go,' said Hope, 'and live again in Europe: there it is not known what a sullied name you bear, nor what a filthy burden is bound to you.† (source)
- That woman, who has so abused your long-suffering, so sullied your name, so outraged your honour, so blighted your youth, is not your wife, nor are you her husband.† (source)
- Only one thing, I know: you said you were not as good as you should like to be, and that you regretted your own imperfection; — one thing I can comprehend: you intimated that to have a sullied memory was a perpetual bane.† (source)
- describe, Despoiled, stripped, Detrenched, cut to pieces, Devised, looked carefully at, Devoir, duty, service, Did off, doffed, Dight, prepared, Dindled, trembled, Disadventure, misfortune, Discover, reveal, Disherited, disinherited, Disparpled, scattered, Dispenses, expenses, Disperplyd, scattered, Dispoiled, stripped, Distained, sullied, dishonoured, Disworship, shame, Dole, gift of alms, Dole, sorrow, Domineth, dominates, rules, Don, gift, Doted, foolish, Doubted, redoubtable, Draughts, privities, secret interviews, recesses, Drenched, drowned, Dress, make ready, Dressed up, raised, Dretched, troubled in sleep, Dretching, being troubled in sleep, Dromounds, war vessels, Dure† (source)
- From this state of humiliation, she was roused, at the end of ten minutes, to a pleasanter feeling, by seeing, not Mr. Thorpe, but Mr. Tilney, within three yards of the place where they sat; he seemed to be moving that way, but he did not see her, and therefore the smile and the blush, which his sudden reappearance raised in Catherine, passed away without sullying her heroic importance.† (source)
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Atticus's office in the courthouse contained little more than a hat rack, a spittoon, a checkerboard and an unsullied Code of Alabama.
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unsullied = clean and undamagedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsullied means not and reverses the meaning of sullied. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Pure, unsullied I scrawl and hand it to her.† (source)
- What I felt at that time was unsullied hatred.† (source)
- The Unsullied are not permitted to steal.† (source)
- I will have no more Unsullied slaughtered.† (source)
- Eight thousand Unsullied they would offer me.† (source)
- The Unsullied did not so much as look down to watch him die.† (source)
- The Butcher King has fled back to his palace, his new Unsullied running at his heels.† (source)
- Her Unsullied:' "The first Aegon took Westeros without eunuchs," said Lysono Maar.† (source)
- Tell the savage her secrets are safe with the Unsullied.† (source)
- Unsullied have no lust for gold or gems.† (source)
- "Your Grace," said Ser Barristan, "the Unsullied are your best fighters.† (source)
- Thrice they passed Unsullied guards, standing as if they had been carved from stone.† (source)
- When Dany admitted that she could not, the slaver turned to the Unsullied.† (source)
- The Unsullied have something better than strength, tell her.† (source)
- Even the Unsullied grow fearful when they must open the doors to feed them.† (source)
- Finally they came to a pair of huge iron doors with rusted hinges, guarded by Unsullied.† (source)
- By the time the Unsullied reached the city the sun had set.† (source)
- Grey Worm and the Unsullied will close and bar the gates at first light.† (source)
- "That is only for Unsullied," the girl said.† (source)
- Viserys would have bought as many Unsullied as he had the coin for.† (source)
- Her Unsullied had finally restored order, but the sack left a plague of problems in its wake.† (source)
- Tell the Good Master that I see how strong his Unsullied are, and how bravely they suffer pain.† (source)
- Do you want to face real Unsullied with that lot on your side?† (source)
- My Unsullied will relish a bit of a fight.† (source)
- Meereen has an army of Unsullied infantry, the finest in the world.† (source)
- Only three days past I showed these same Unsullied to a corsair king who hopes to buy them all.† (source)
- Hizdahr's blunder with Grey Worm had cost him the Unsullied.† (source)
- Unsullied are brave soldiers ...but not warriors.† (source)
- Even Unsullied may be losing battles to savage steel knights of Seven Kingdoms.† (source)
- Formerly those guards had been Unsullied.† (source)
- ten thousand of my Unsullied," said Dany.† (source)
- If you had taken the Unsullied south to Hazzat, the Sons of the Harpy—† (source)
- "Khaleesi," he said, taken aback by her fury, "the Unsullied are chosen as boys, and trained—"† (source)
- All the same, any enemy wanting to sack Astapor would have to know that they'd be facing Unsullied.† (source)
- "We fought the Unsullied at Astapor," the big man said.† (source)
- All the world knows that the Unsullied are masters of spear and shield and shortsword.† (source)
- The Unsullied brought this man to the temple, where we stripped him and bathed him in cool water.† (source)
- The Dothraki have not ridden against Unsullied since they left their braids at the gates of Qohor.† (source)
- Grey Worm was there for the Unsullied, Skahaz mo Kandaq for the Brazen Beasts.† (source)
- Ride to the gates and bring me Grey Worm and fifty of his Unsullied.† (source)
- Freedom means as much to an Unsullied as a hat to a haddock.† (source)
- Explain to me how you propose to defeat ten thousand Unsullied with your five hundred.† (source)
- Not at first, no. The Yunkai'i were afraid of our queen, of her Unsullied, of her dragons.† (source)
- They had been gelded and made into Unsullied.† (source)
- The Unsullied are well trained, but even so, many will fall in battle.† (source)
- The Unsullied learn the way of the three spears.† (source)
- Great Cleon bids me tell you that he and his new Unsullied will soon march.† (source)
- And if I give you the Unsullied, I will have no one but the Brazen Beasts to hold Meereen.† (source)
- I need the Unsullied more than I need these ships, and I will hear no more about it.† (source)
- Lend us your Unsullied to defend our walls.† (source)
- I will not throw away Unsullied lives, Grey Worm.† (source)
- And almost as an afterthought, they sent a man to Astapor to buy three thousand Unsullied.† (source)
- The Unsullied will send a corpse cart for him.† (source)
- Do you know how Unsullied are made and trained?† (source)
- Ask the Good Master if the Unsullied have their own officers.† (source)
- The Unsullied had withdrawn to their barracks.† (source)
- What would we tell the next buyer who comes seeking Unsullied?† (source)
- The Unsullied you may have seen in Pentos and Myr were household guards.† (source)
- The Unsullied man the walls and towers, ready for any assault.† (source)
- The Unsullied locked their shields, lowered their spears, and stood firm.† (source)
- Grey Worm was there for the Unsullied, attended by three eunuch serjeants in spiked bronze caps.† (source)
- The Unsullied were eunuchs, every one of them.† (source)
- They are not Unsullied, but they will not shame you.† (source)
- Now go see to your Unsullied, ser. You have a battle to fight and win.† (source)
- "Remain outside," Dany told Ser Barristan, as the Unsullied were opening the huge iron doors.† (source)
- The Unsullied are the purest creatures on the earth.† (source)
- Jhogo, Daario Naharis, Admiral Groleo, and Hero of the Unsullied remained hostages of the Yunkai'i.† (source)
- If the Unsullied felt the heat, however, they gave no hint of it.† (source)
- "Unsullied tell no tales," Illyrio assured him.† (source)
- Behind him followed four of his Unsullied, bearing the dead man on their shoulders.† (source)
- The Unsullied could withstand their charge, but my freedmen will be slaughtered.† (source)
- "The Unsullied make fine guards and excellent watchmen, Your Grace," said Missandei.† (source)
- In ten years, some of the boys she sends us may be Unsullied in their turn.† (source)
- With all respect, Your Grace, Unsullied are not men.† (source)
- The Unsullied do not fear to die, though.† (source)
- Others may be stronger or quicker or larger than the Unsullied.† (source)
- Perhaps the Unsullied should wield the axes.† (source)
- The Unsullied caught one of the sellswords trying to sneak into the camp.† (source)
- Their version of the game was pure, unsullied madness.† (source)
- Harry had been expecting it, knew his body would not be allowed to remain unsullied upon the forest floor; it must be subjected to humiliation to prove Voldemort's victory.† (source)
- And she was looking at me with two calm, violet eyes and a child's mouth that seemed almost obdurately soft, obdurately the cupid's bow unsullied by paint or personality; and the mouth smiled now and said, as those eyes seemed to fire: 'Yes, he's as you said he would be, and I love him already.† (source)
- When will she sit at the feet of Jesus, clothed with the unsullied garments of his righteousness, the stain of blood washed from her hand, and her soul redeemed, and pardoned, and in her right mind?† (source)
- Like, I can't find the deep down part of me that's pure or unsullied or whatever, the part of me where my soul is supposed to be.† (source)
- Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their lives.† (source)
- But the faculty adviser to The Grave was an Owen Meany supporter; Mr. Early—that deeply flawed thespian who brought to every role he was given in The Gravesend Players an overblown and befuddled sense of Learlike doom—cried that he would defend the "unsullied genius" of The Voice, if necessary, "to the death."† (source)
- He had the copper skin and dark almond eyes of a Dothraki, but his face was hairless and he wore the spiked bronze cap of the Unsullied.† (source)
- It may have remained pristine for another sixty-six million years, unsullied by your mammalian gluttony, if not for a chance encounter with an alien visitor one-quarter the size of Manhattan.† (source)
- When I was young, the village was tidy, the water pure, and the grass green and unsullied as far as the eye could see.† (source)
- She stood in her stirrups and raised the harpy's fingers above her head for all the Unsullied to see.† (source)
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