All 3 Uses of
tarnish
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- 'MY DEAR MR PUGSTYLES, 'Next to the welfare of our beloved island—this great and free and happy country, whose powers and resources are, I sincerely believe, illimitable—I value that noble independence which is an Englishman's proudest boast, and which I fondly hope to bequeath to my children, untarnished and unsullied.†
Chpt 16
- The manager's voice recalled him from a more careful inspection of the building, to the opposite side of the proscenium, where, at a small mahogany table with rickety legs and of an oblong shape, sat a stout, portly female, apparently between forty and fifty, in a tarnished silk cloak, with her bonnet dangling by the strings in her hand, and her hair (of which she had a great quantity) braided in a large festoon over each temple.†
Chpt 23
- —a tarnished shilling in the waistcoat pocket.†
Chpt 51 *
Definition:
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(tarnish as in: tarnished silver) undesired loss of shine or spotting on a metal surface