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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)
  • Because the world he lives in is rather sullied and unworthy, fallen even.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • It may be James McDermott, come here to sully Grace's reputation.†   (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)
  • Miss Sully called out.†   (source)
  • Wet blotches quickly sullied the virgin cloth.†   (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)
  • The Three, fairest of all, the Elf-lords hid from him, and his hand never touched them or sullied them.†   (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)
  • The first peep out of him and into print it goes, sullying his good name far and wide.†   (source)
  • Sully," the officer said.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Aside from sullying my own paws, you're now drowning in debt to a person of questionable character.†   (source)
  • You wouldn't want to sully her memory, to disappoint her, would you?"†   (source)
  • I thought all he wanted was to have nothing unusual sully his days, that what he disliked or feared most was uncertainty.†   (source)
  • Don't want to keep Sully waiting."†   (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)
  • Which is why we can't let a lying imposter like you sully his good name!†   (source)
  • "Nor do I wish to sully Lightbringer with a brother's blood.†   (source)
  • Grey Worm said only that the Un sullied would obey, whatever might be asked of them.†   (source)
  • He stood in the doorway as Sully slowly picked up the spray bottle and washed down his sink.†   (source)
  • After handing a slip of paper to Miss Sully, he caught my eye.†   (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)
  • "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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • It left Eragon feeling sullied.†   (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)
  • …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…†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 'All right," Miss Sully said to him.†   (source)
  • Sully, what are you doing?†   (source)
  • Sully.†   (source)
  • "She's out!" cried Miss Sully.†   (source)
  • Miss Sully blew her whistle.†   (source)
  • Miss Sully asked.†   (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)
  • …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)
  • He was afraid of sullying what his soul was brimful of.†   (source)
  • "He will sully it then," returned Lucien; "for I am low—very low."†   (source)
  • But Magua is pledged not to sully the lilies of France.†   (source)
  • You make me a liar by such language: you sully my honour.†   (source)
  • "I shall sully the purity of your floor," said he, "but you must excuse me for once."†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • 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…†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • …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…†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The rest of the furniture of this privileged apartment consisted of old cabinets, filled with Chinese porcelain and Japanese vases, Lucca della Robbia faience, and Palissy platters; of old arm-chairs, in which perhaps had sat Henry IV. or Sully, Louis XIII. or Richelieu—for two of these arm-chairs, adorned with a carved shield, on which were engraved the fleur-de-lis of France on an azure field evidently came from the Louvre, or, at least, some royal residence.†   (source)
  • I did wrong: I would have sullied my innocent flower — breathed guilt on its purity: the Omnipotent snatched it from me.†   (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)
  • No." 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)
  • 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)
  • From a flowery arch at the bottom of my garden I gazed over the sea — bluer than the sky: the old world was beyond; clear prospects opened thus: " '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)
  • …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…†   (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)
  • Atticus's office in the courthouse contained little more than a hat rack, a spittoon, a checkerboard and an unsullied Code of Alabama.   (source)
    unsullied = clean and undamaged
    standard 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.
  • What I felt at that time was unsullied hatred.†   (source)
  • Pure, unsullied I scrawl and hand it to her.†   (source)
  • The Unsullied are not permitted to steal.†   (source)
  • They had been gelded and made into Unsullied.†   (source)
  • Eight thousand Unsullied they would offer me.†   (source)
  • Do you know how Unsullied are made and trained?†   (source)
  • The Unsullied did not so much as look down to watch him die.†   (source)
  • Tell the savage her secrets are safe with the Unsullied.†   (source)
  • "Remain outside," Dany told Ser Barristan, as the Unsullied were opening the huge iron doors.†   (source)
  • Unsullied are brave soldiers …. but not warriors.†   (source)
  • Unsullied have no lust for gold or gems.†   (source)
  • When Dany admitted that she could not, the slaver turned to the Unsullied.†   (source)
  • I will have no more Unsullied slaughtered.†   (source)
  • "We fought the Unsullied at Astapor," the big man said.†   (source)
  • The Unsullied have something better than strength, tell her.†   (source)
  • By the time the Unsullied reached the city the sun had set.†   (source)
  • And if I give you the Unsullied, I will have no one but the Brazen Beasts to hold Meereen.†   (source)
  • Thrice they passed Unsullied guards, standing as if they had been carved from stone.†   (source)
  • "That is only for Unsullied," the girl said.†   (source)
  • Meereen has an army of Unsullied infantry, the finest in the world.†   (source)
  • Viserys would have bought as many Unsullied as he had the coin for.†   (source)
  • Tell the Good Master that I see how strong his Unsullied are, and how bravely they suffer pain.†   (source)
  • The Unsullied will send a corpse cart for him.†   (source)
  • My Unsullied will relish a bit of a fight.†   (source)
  • Jhogo, Daario Naharis, Admiral Groleo, and Hero of the Unsullied remained hostages of the Yunkai'i.†   (source)
  • Only three days past I showed these same Unsullied to a corsair king who hopes to buy them all.†   (source)
  • Grey Worm and the Unsullied will close and bar the gates at first light.†   (source)
  • Even Unsullied may be losing battles to savage steel knights of Seven Kingdoms.†   (source)
  • Behind him followed four of his Unsullied, bearing the dead man on their shoulders.†   (source)
  • Do you want to face real Unsullied with that lot on your side?†   (source)
  • "Five hundred of your Stormcrows against. ten thousand of my Unsullied," said Dany.†   (source)
  • Ride to the gates and bring me Grey Worm and fifty of his Unsullied.†   (source)
  • All the same, any enemy wanting to sack Astapor would have to know that they'd be facing Unsullied.†   (source)
  • Her Unsullied:' "The first Aegon took Westeros without eunuchs," said Lysono Maar.†   (source)
  • All the world knows that the Unsullied are masters of spear and shield and shortsword.†   (source)
  • The Dothraki have not ridden against Unsullied since they left their braids at the gates of Qohor.†   (source)
  • Lend us your Unsullied to defend our walls.†   (source)
  • Freedom means as much to an Unsullied as a hat to a haddock.†   (source)
  • If you had taken the Unsullied south to Hazzat, the Sons of the Harpy—†   (source)
  • Explain to me how you propose to defeat ten thousand Unsullied with your five hundred.†   (source)
  • The Butcher King has fled back to his palace, his new Unsullied running at his heels.†   (source)
  • "Your Grace," said Ser Barristan, "the Unsullied are your best fighters.†   (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)
  • The Unsullied brought this man to the temple, where we stripped him and bathed him in cool water.†   (source)
  • Great Cleon bids me tell you that he and his new Unsullied will soon march.†   (source)
  • I need the Unsullied more than I need these ships, and I will hear no more about it.†   (source)
  • I will not throw away Unsullied lives, Grey Worm.†   (source)
  • "Unsullied tell no tales," Illyrio assured him.†   (source)
  • Hizdahr's blunder with Grey Worm had cost him the Unsullied.†   (source)
  • And almost as an afterthought, they sent a man to Astapor to buy three thousand Unsullied.†   (source)
  • Finally they came to a pair of huge iron doors with rusted hinges, guarded by Unsullied.†   (source)
  • Ask the Good Master if the Unsullied have their own officers.†   (source)
  • What would we tell the next buyer who comes seeking Unsullied?†   (source)
  • Grey Worm was there for the Unsullied, Skahaz mo Kandaq for the Brazen Beasts.†   (source)
  • Not at first, no. The Yunkai'i were afraid of our queen, of her Unsullied, of her dragons.†   (source)
  • The Unsullied you may have seen in Pentos and Myr were household guards.†   (source)
  • They are not Unsullied, but they will not shame you.†   (source)
  • The Unsullied locked their shields, lowered their spears, and stood firm.†   (source)
  • The Unsullied were eunuchs, every one of them.†   (source)
  • Formerly those guards had been Unsullied.†   (source)
  • Now go see to your Unsullied, ser. You have a battle to fight and win.†   (source)
  • Grey Worm was there for the Unsullied, attended by three eunuch serjeants in spiked bronze caps.†   (source)
  • The Unsullied are the purest creatures on the earth.†   (source)
  • The Unsullied man the walls and towers, ready for any assault.†   (source)
  • If the Unsullied felt the heat, however, they gave no hint of it.†   (source)
  • Even the Unsullied grow fearful when they must open the doors to feed them.†   (source)
  • The Unsullied could withstand their charge, but my freedmen will be slaughtered.†   (source)
  • The Unsullied had withdrawn to their barracks.†   (source)
  • "The Unsullied make fine guards and excellent watchmen, Your Grace," said Missandei.†   (source)
  • Her Unsullied had finally restored order, but the sack left a plague of problems in its wake.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "Unsullied," said Griff.†   (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)
  • It hung on a nail near his bed—unfrayed, unsullied after all those years, with only the permanent bend in the fabric made by its long life on a nail.†   (source)
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