Sample Sentences foraspersion (auto-selected)
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Elsewhere in this volume the slanderous aspersion has been disproved, that the vocation of whaling is throughout a slatternly, untidy business.† (source)
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After the marriage came the wedding feast King Pellinore and his Queen—who had stood hand in hand throughout the previous ceremony, with St Toirdealbhach and Mother Morlan behind them, quite dazzled with candlelight and incense and aspersion—were propped up in the place of honour and served by Arthur himself on bended knee.† (source)
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The son knew that it was not, who would have been first to fight the aspersion were it to come from another: that there was delicacy of behavior and thought in the old man.† (source)
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He did not like that text; it seemed to cast an aspersion on himself.† (source)
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They vindicated him against the base aspersion.† (source)
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Peggotty seemed to take this aspersion very much to heart, I thought.† (source)
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I rose to the defense of my country while casting aspersions on Moody's.† (source)
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Carrie felt this to contain, in some way, an aspersion upon her ability.† (source)
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I mean Gryffindor rooms are all well and good but the trouble with red is—it is said to send you a little mad—not that I'm casting aspersions ...† (source)
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"It's not at all from friendship," declared Nicholas, flaring up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion.† (source)
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He had been so sure his parents were wonderful people that he had never had the slightest difficulty in disbelieving the aspersions Snape cast on his father's character.† (source)
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He affected to be jealous:—he may, for aught I know, be inclined enough to jealousy in his natural temper; nay, he must have had it from nature, or the devil must have put it into his head; for I defy all the world to cast a just aspersion on my character: nay, the most scandalous tongues have never dared censure my reputation.† (source)
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I am not sure how to question her, without casting aspersions on the veracity of what she has set down.† (source)
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Then, as my gift and thine own acquisition Worthily purchas'd, take my daughter: but If thou dost break her virgin knot before All sanctimonious ceremonies may With full and holy rite be minister'd, No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall To make this contract grow; but barren hate, Sour-ey'd disdain, and discord, shall bestrew The union of your bed with weeds so loathly That you shall hate it both: therefore take heed, As Hymen's lamps shall light you.† (source)
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It is simply another fact that casts aspersions on their alleged origins as landino slaves.† (source)
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It hurts my feelings when a very ugly human being like yourself casts aspersions on my heritage.† (source)
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