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  • Looking around for a cloth to wrap around the tip of the iron pole, he saw nothing except the altar's linen mantle, which he refused to defile.†   (source)
  • He waits for Neumann Two to come around the truck and say something crass, to spoil it, but he doesn't, and neither does Bernd, maybe they don't see her at all, maybe this one pure thing will escape their defilement, and the girl sings as she swings, a high song that Werner recognizes, a counting song that girls jumping rope in the alley behind Children's House used to sing, Eins, zwei, Polizei, drei, vier, Offizier, and how he would like to join her, push her higher and higher, singfiinf; sechs, alte Hex, sieben, acht, gute Nacht!†   (source)
  • Besides, I've defiled enough future historical sites for now.†   (source)
  • Neighbors' servants tugged off earrings and bangles, defiled grottoes, sabered my grandfather's horse.†   (source)
  • This is a sacred place, we will not defile it.†   (source)
  • The eagerly awaited food promised for Parcel Day arrives spoiled and defiled by rodents.†   (source)
  • The boys chose their way through defiles and over heaps of sharp stone.†   (source)
  • Mammachi told Estha and Rahel that she could remember a time, in her girlhood, when Paravans were expected to crawl backwards with a broom, sweeping away their footprints so that Brahmins or Syrian Christians would not defile themselves by accidentally stepping into a Paravan's footprint.†   (source)
  • There's just me and the asphalt river cutting through a defile of half-naked trees, their leaves crinkled and clinging desperately to their dark branches.†   (source)
  • So now they and their church found it necessary to deny any other sect its freedom, lest their New Jerusalem be defiled and corrupted by wrong ways and deceitful ideas.†   (source)
  • What's more, I won't have the tatami in this okiya defiled with blood.†   (source)
  • Entering the temple and defiling the offerings!†   (source)
  • Would you have them defile an honorable weapon?†   (source)
  • She said that if graves of her ancestors would be defiled, then ours would be defiled, too.†   (source)
  • Does it mean, start to finish, an act of defilement, pure physicality, no choice but yes, no stopping now, no holds barred, everything off, nothing left to chance, all the way in?†   (source)
  • "You might be here getting ready to defile us virgins," Shaunee said.†   (source)
  • Jacob checked anxiously over his shoulder to make sure his car wasn't defiled.†   (source)
  • She knew, of course, that she was being supremely unfair, that Franz was the best man she had ever hadhe was intelligent, he understood her paintings, he was handsome and goodbut the more she thought about it, the more she longed to ravish his intelligence, defile his kindheartedness, and violate his powerless strength.†   (source)
  • We ran through smogged-out hollows past houses stilted over raw defiles and we ran into wooded areas that had the look of tinder, a dry white dusty stillness, a sense of combustible edge, but maybe not—I might have been devising my own newsreel.†   (source)
  • To defile it, to twist its power.†   (source)
  • It made you defile yourself and neglect your children and break up families, among quite a lot of other things.†   (source)
  • Now she was a slaughtered corpse, defiled, possibly raped on her wedding night.†   (source)
  • He would have them know this country was at war, that while our boys—our brothers and sons—were fighting and dying for us, someone directed an obscene act of defilement at them, an act the perpetrator of which was beneath contempt.†   (source)
  • They knew as much as she how blood defiled a man.†   (source)
  • Emperor Hirohito was personally alarmed by the prospect of foreign defilement of his realm at Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • "He took your freedom," she continued, "and your choices, marked you, branded you, defiled you.†   (source)
  • Each then looked around for more debris to throw into the hole: paper, bits of glass, butts of cigarettes, until all of the small defiling things they could find were collected there.†   (source)
  • Defiled cain't be the right word for you, Love.†   (source)
  • That would make us like those liars and cheats and defilers of ancient Greece, the Sophists...remember them?†   (source)
  • I apologize for defiling your rich parish, you tight-assed snobs, he thought as he lit a candle and placed it in the prayer rack, but Christ made it clear that he preferred me to you.†   (source)
  • As he went down, the walking became easier, and a short distance from the crossroads where he would board the streetcar he found himself on ten flights of gradual stairs and landings in a thick green defile.†   (source)
  • With it he washed clean the stones that Wormtongue had defiled.†   (source)
  • To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake-and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem.†   (source)
  • I would have shaken it off, already my foot had begun to lift but then, the white ghost entered and all was defiled.†   (source)
  • You have produced a defilement.†   (source)
  • Suddenly all she wanted was to get out of there, out of the yellow-lit room, away from the smell of death and the tiny defiled body lying still on its slab.†   (source)
  • But the beauty of the area will soon be defiled by the ugliness of war.†   (source)
  • I witnessed the magnificent courage of the weak and then watched them turn into the defiled images of their tormentors.†   (source)
  • Why then, do you feel my touch to be a thing of defilement?†   (source)
  • Despite her own actual blamelessness, she had felt dirtied, defiled by her association with her father in his last obsessed year, and with his atrocious pamphlet, and so her brief relationship with this consecrated sister and her brother had brought her moments of cleansing grace.†   (source)
  • which yet spoke now, to John's startled soul, of boundless melancholy, of the bitterest patience, and the longest night; of the deepest water, the strongest chains, the most cruel lash; of humility most wretched, the dungeon most absolute, of love's bed defiled, and birth dishonored, and most bloody, unspeakable, sudden death.†   (source)
  • "I ate civilization." ... "It poisoned me; I was defiled."   (source)
    defiled = made more dirty and impure
  • "Orgy-porgy!" said Bernard, interrupting the reading with a loud, unpleasant laugh.
    ...
    He was revenging himself on his two friends for liking one another more than they liked him.
    ...
    It was simple and, since both Helmholtz and the Savage were dreadfully pained by the shattering and defilement of a favourite poetic crystal, extremely effective.   (source)
    defilement = to dirty the beauty or purity of something
  • It's amazing how quickly he can defile a space.†   (source)
  • "Please do not run, intruders," the voice said as Paul made to withdraw into the defile.†   (source)
  • Working for the kapo is not the same as defiling hundreds of innocent people.†   (source)
  • Tattooing the arms of men is one thing; defiling the bodies of young girls is horrifying.†   (source)
  • We drained the defiled water and filled the lake from the spring.†   (source)
  • Nasty stickers of hair defile me, the goddess within.†   (source)
  • A white Occidental had horribly defiled the coffin and the hallowed body of Chairman Mao.†   (source)
  • "That's my sister you're defiling there, you know," he said, moving his black gaze to Jace.†   (source)
  • The boy defiled your marriage bed, else you would surely have sons of your own.†   (source)
  • The sun was up, walking among clouds and long flags of smoke, but even the sunlight was defiled.†   (source)
  • To make peace with the Horde may defile your Great Romance, but it does not blaspheme Elyon.†   (source)
  • Just accept that I was defiled and hate it and I can never be anybody's wife.†   (source)
  • Defiled her "How did they both end up here in the middle of their wedding?"†   (source)
  • It defiled man, woman, child, grass, water, any-thing that it touched.†   (source)
  • Robert and Delena defiled our bed and laid a curse upon our union.†   (source)
  • They were waiting in a narrow defile when their brothers appeared, leading their garrons.†   (source)
  • And yet they would likely defile the lakes, ravage the forests, and plant their desert wheat.†   (source)
  • I even got over feeling defiled — till I told Clayt and he did what he did.†   (source)
  • Actually, blood defiles the lakes, the boy said.†   (source)
  • The Scabs were defiling the forest with their presence.†   (source)
  • If the answer is no, though, we'll pull out and let Renfrew have this city, defile this Temple.†   (source)
  • Then we will take a few of their cities and defile their Temples, to see what action this provokes.†   (source)
  • We are not about to defile His Holiness's body by cutting him open just because an enemy makes a taunting claim!†   (source)
  • She had defiled generations of breeding (The Little Blessed One, blessed personally by the Patriarch of Antioch, an Imperial Entomologist, a Rhodes Scholar from Oxford) and brought the family to its knees.†   (source)
  • Under General Zia's Islamic radicalization campaign, the law was made much stricter so that anyone who "defiles the sacred name of the Holy Prophet (PBUH)" can be punished by death or life imprisonment.†   (source)
  • Where the pass shrank to a narrow defile scarce wide enough for four men to ride abreast, twin watchtowers clung to the rocky slopes, joined by a covered bridge of weathered grey stone that arched above the road.†   (source)
  • Until the moment that I held its short, sharp blade to my throat I had not thought of any conclusion but the obvious one: to balance my defilement with my death.†   (source)
  • Today he was fighting their battle, he was fighting the same enemy they had fought for ages, as far back as the eleventh century ....when the enemy's crusading armies had first pillaged his land, raping and killing his people, declaring them unclean, defiling their temples and gods.†   (source)
  • Clement's letter claimed that God had visited him in a vision and warned him that the Knights Templar were heretics guilty of devil worship, homosexuality, defiling the cross, sodomy, and other blasphemous behavior.†   (source)
  • The steps ended in a slitted defile about twenty meters long, its floor level, and this opened onto a shallow, moonlit basin.†   (source)
  • The man above them remained silent, but Jessica heard him moving, crossing by a leap over a defile and working his way down to the basin floor on their left.†   (source)
  • The way was rough, up hills and woods and stony defiles, along a narrow track that oft seemed to disappear beneath the horse's hooves.†   (source)
  • The beast sniffed out a goat track that;sound down a defile and up along beneath a ridge, a crooked and stony way, yet wide enough for men riding single file.†   (source)
  • The route took us up the gently sloping floor of the Western Cum, the highest box canyon on earth, a horseshoeshaped defile gouged from the heart of the Everest massif by the Khumbu Glacier.†   (source)
  • The only condition we have for living in the forest is that we bathe regularly and keep the lakes from being defiled with blood.†   (source)
  • The road they took and the shortcuts they made over ridges and through defiles of whitened rock kept them on the crest of the Apennines, on the line of the westernmost ridge.†   (source)
  • Unendingly they work to distort the true image; through our weaker vessels they attempt to defile the race.†   (source)
  • And then Valentine had told them they were brother and sister, and Jace had realized that there were worse things, infinitely worse things, than Clary leaving him for someone else—and that was knowing that the way he loved her was somehow cosmically wrong; that what had seemed the most pure and most irreproachable thing in his life had now been defiled beyond redemption.†   (source)
  • Their faces had a look of secrecy, the look of partners in guilt, the furtive, smutty look of children defiling someone's clean fence by chalking sneaky scratches intended as symbols of obscenity.†   (source)
  • Not because I want to defile any of you, even if all of you were still virgins, although I do appreciate your use of vocabulary.†   (source)
  • My daughter would never defile herself.†   (source)
  • They went cautiously, moving as silent as man and horse could move, retracing their steps until they reached the mouth of a narrow defile where an icy little stream emerged from between two mountains.†   (source)
  • They were both performing an expected routine, a routine invented by someone and imposed upon them, performing it in mockery, in hatred, in defiling parody on its inventors.†   (source)
  • As it bent sharply round the tower, it entered a narrow defile and passed not far below the hollow where he stood.†   (source)
  • Never allow blood to defile the water.†   (source)
  • That would defile her.†   (source)
  • He has to defile.†   (source)
  • But as these ranges approached one another, being indeed but parts of one great wall about the mournful plains of Lithlad and of Gorgoroth, and the bitter inland sea of Nurnen amidmost, they swung out long arms northward; and between these arms there was a deep defile.†   (source)
  • He rode into the defile.†   (source)
  • They had come to the desolation that lay before Mordor: the lasting monument to the dark labour of its slaves that should endure when all their purposes were made void; a land defiled, diseased beyond all healing — unless the Great Sea should enter in and wash it with oblivion.†   (source)
  • She had been mutilated, defiled.†   (source)
  • I knew his blood would defile the lake.†   (source)
  • He knew that the lake would no longer give us life because it would be defiled by the shedding of innocent blood.†   (source)
  • concerning those troops of Bleys which occupied the defile below, and I thought upon Eric's defenses.†   (source)
  • Tall columns of white smoke, graceful and almost feminine, rose like false gods on the horizon, and from my boat they were salacious and impure reminders of the absolute insistence of man that he defile all that he touches.†   (source)
  • Yet they knew that all the hills and rocks about the Morannon were filled with hidden foes, and the shadowy defile beyond was bored and tunnelled by teeming broods of evil things.†   (source)
  • Normally the prey of an ever-unfulfilled randiness—as the reader by now must be aware—I became, during these mercifully infrequent seizures of morning-after engorgement, a godforsaken organism in absolute thrall to the genital urge, capable of defiling a five-year-old of either sex, ready for coition with almost any vertebrate having a pulse and warm blood.†   (source)
  • I wondered if the grotesque phantoms of their damaged spirits haunted the alcoves of the barracks for all times, recruiting others into their defiled tormented ranks with howls of gratitude as they watched the others come apart at the soul.†   (source)
  • They defile the Temple.†   (source)
  • Vishnu was not pleased, later being quoted as having said that the City should not have been defiled with blood, and that wherever chaos finds egress, it will one day return.†   (source)
  • Comm on ove' by de winder," Yussie guided him through a defile in the furniture.†   (source)
  • A feeling that the beloved walls had been defiled rose in her.†   (source)
  • Wherever he went, whatever he did, he defiled God.†   (source)
  • He was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party's purity.†   (source)
  • He even arranged for sentries to keep constant watch on the entrance to the defile.†   (source)
  • He's defiled his own work by the first word you'll utter about it.†   (source)
  • The boy—pallid, but proud of his trust—told the house-defiler that he must go.†   (source)
  • The land is foul, the water is foul, our beasts and ourselves defiled with blood.†   (source)
  • "Go defile thyself," Primitivo said.†   (source)
  • And war among men defiles this world, but death in the Lord renews it, And the world must be cleaned in the winter, or we shall have only A sour spring, a parched summer, an empty harvest.†   (source)
  • Callahan's been playing round for a long time, and he who touches pitch shall be defiled, and little boys just will walk barefoot in the cow pasture.†   (source)
  • Not as love, but as defilement.†   (source)
  • Erlik defiled them with his spittle, but took flight the moment he saw God approaching to give them life.†   (source)
  • Just think (and let it be the beginning of your agony) what he felt at that moment; as if a scab had fallen from an old sore, as if he were emerging from a hideous, shell-like tetter, as if he shuffled off for good and all a defiled, wet, clinging garment.†   (source)
  • To-morrow I will have a reckoning with the church-wardens, who allowed that band of drunken cowboys to come in to the midnight Mass and defile the font.†   (source)
  • And when she was with Janie she had a feeling of transmutation, as if she herself had become whiter and with straighter hair and she hated Tea Cake first for his defilement of divinity and next for his telling mockery of her.†   (source)
  • And all the facts that levelled Margaret down to life, that plunged her in the defiling stream of life, were as unreal and horrible as a nightmare.†   (source)
  • Three died on the way, and the fourth was not far from death when by accident he stumbled into the rocky defile that remains today the only practical approach to the valley of Blue Moon.†   (source)
  • Scarce a corner, cranny, or protected nook or angle of my friend's trusting house did we not at one time or another defile, and that even in the full and shameless light of day," Cass wrote in the journal, and when Jack Burden, the student of history, went to Lexington and went to see the old Trice house he remembered the sentence.†   (source)
  • The execution was not followed by any sacrilege to the church or defiling of holy vessels, but merely by a division of the Padre's stores and household goods.†   (source)
  • Her perfume went drunkenly to his brain; her touch upon him shot through his limbs a glow of magic; he felt the pressure of her narrow breasts, eager and lithe, against him with a sense of fear— as if he had dishonored her—with a sickening remembrance of his defilement.†   (source)
  • If you were going to give the money away—if you felt the money was defiled—why didn't you free her?†   (source)
  • We are soiled by a filth* that we cannot clean, united to supernatural vermin, It is not we alone, it is not the house, it is not the city that is defiled, But the world that is wholly foul.†   (source)
  • She caught her breath at times from the sudden feeling that something magnificent and deadly would meet her beyond the next turn of the road; she could give no identity to what she expected, she could not say whether it was a sight, a person or an event; she knew only its quality—the sensation of a defiling pleasure.†   (source)
  • May wild asses defile the grave of thy maternal grandmother.'†   (source)
  • It is my mind and soul that he has tortured and defiled.†   (source)
  • They would defile it, and make it shameful.†   (source)
  • Nor could the litter be set down, lest it defiled the temple by becoming a throne.†   (source)
  • Pushing heavy cannon up mountain defiles, the elephant's brow is majestic.†   (source)
  • In the meantime d'Artagnan was defiling with his company.†   (source)
  • They seemed to realize the impossibility of touching TAR without being defiled.†   (source)
  • 'I am defiled by breathing the air with such creatures.†   (source)
  • When Sir William push'd the German, Dieskau, thro' the defiles at the foot of the Hori—†   (source)
  • Tell me, can he be allowed to go on defiling the earth?†   (source)
  • I may degrade and defile myself, but I am not anyone's slave.†   (source)
  • Never; that ring is defiled, d'Artagnan.†   (source)
  • Nations come and go without defiling it.†   (source)
  • To the south stretched the defile, or rather broken plain, so often mentioned.†   (source)
  • You have seduced this young girl; you have outraged, defiled her.†   (source)
  • Miss Bart caught the startled glance of Mr. Percy Gryce, whose own lips were never defiled by tobacco.†   (source)
  • And Sue defiled!†   (source)
  • Ivar had lived for three years in the clay bank, without defiling the face of nature any more than the coyote that had lived there before him had done.†   (source)
  • But as he repeated the fables of his fathers it did not occur to him to believe them, or to stoop in fear before their God of Wrath—or to gain ease by permitting Hunziker to defile his discovery.†   (source)
  • And then Leonora would say suddenly something like: "I should think myself defiled if Edward touched me now that he has touched you."†   (source)
  • Never, no matter what the circumstance, must he dare to bite the god who was lord and master over him; the body of the lord and master was sacred, not to be defiled by the teeth of such as he.†   (source)
  • When they rode out of the narrow defile into the valley the sun was rising red and bright in a notch of the mountains.†   (source)
  • The teachers in these institutions came not to keep the Negroes in their place, but to raise them out of the defilement of the places where slavery had wallowed them.†   (source)
  • But all talking of Clyde and Sondra—this horrible crime and the probable social destruction of all those who had in any way been thus innocently defiled by it.†   (source)
  • She passed through hours of unintelligible shame and impotent rage and futile striving to reason away her defilement.†   (source)
  • Ah, how she hated her—hot, hypocritical, corrupt; with all that power; Elizabeth's seducer; the woman who had crept in to steal and defile (Richard would say, What nonsense!)†   (source)
  • I really don't recollect now what decent little port on the shores of the Baltic was defiled by being the nest of that precious bird.†   (source)
  • People fled before this tortured thinker, for whoever he managed to buttonhole was subjected to a passionate torrent of words intended to awaken a deeper sensitivity to the hopeless irrationality of this mystical ratio and to its shameful defilement of the human spirit.†   (source)
  • Rocks obstructing his advance, the narrow defiles he had to squeeze through, the hard sharp edges tearing his shirt, the smell of the hot earth, the glaring sun—all seemed obstacles that put the fact of Indians in the background.†   (source)
  • The presence of Haze Ruff, the astounding truth of the contact with his huge sheep-defiled hands, had been profanation and degradation under which she sickened with fear and shame.†   (source)
  • He bore cynically with the shameful details of his secret riots in which he exulted to defile with patience whatever image had attracted his eyes.†   (source)
  • But the blight Shefford had dreaded to see—the withering of the exquisite soul and spirit and purity he had considered inevitable, just as inevitable as the death of something similar in the flower she resembled, when it was broken and defiled—nothing of this was manifest in her.†   (source)
  • Atalanta is not the first or the last maiden whom greed of gold has led to defile the temple of Love; and not maids alone, but men in the race of life, sink from the high and generous ideals of youth to the gambler's code of the Bourse; and in all our Nation's striving is not the Gospel of Work befouled by the Gospel of Pay?†   (source)
  • The thought unhallowed the memory of that last hour, made a mock of the word he had come to speak, and defiled even the reconciling silence upon which it fell.†   (source)
  • A long line of boys carrying crates of striped tulips, and of yellow and red roses, defiled in front of him, threading their way through the huge jade-green piles of vegetables.†   (source)
  • On each of the seven days of the week he further prayed that one of the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost might descend upon his soul and drive out of it day by day the seven deadly sins which had defiled it in the past; and he prayed for each gift on its appointed day, confident that it would descend upon him, though it seemed strange to him at times that wisdom and understanding and knowledge were so distinct in their nature that each should be prayed for apart from the others.†   (source)
  • For was this not an ineradicable stain which was likely to defile all—himself, his fiancee, Bella, Myra, his parents—and perhaps cost them their position here in Lycurgus society?†   (source)
  • For even they, the very devils, when they sinned, sinned by such a sin as alone was compatible with such angelical natures, a rebellion of the intellect: and they, even they, the foul devils must turn away, revolted and disgusted, from the contemplation of those unspeakable sins by which degraded man outrages and defiles the temple of the Holy Ghost, defiles and pollutes himself.†   (source)
  • Go at once, this very minute, stand at the cross-roads, bow down, first kiss the earth which you have defiled and then bow down to all the world and say to all men aloud, 'I am a murderer!'†   (source)
  • It comes from country places, where there was once no harm in it — and it creeps through the dismal streets, defiled and miserable — and it goes away, like my life, to a great sea, that is always troubled — and I feel that I must go with it!'†   (source)
  • At midday the Russian baggage train, the artillery, and columns of troops were defiling through the town of Enns on both sides of the bridge.†   (source)
  • The sight of the well-known objects that defiled before her eyes gradually diverted Emma from her present trouble.†   (source)
  • Then La Beresina, then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of Gelenhausen; then Montmirail, Chateau-Thierry, Craon, the banks of the Marne, the banks of the Aisne, and the redoubtable position of Laon.†   (source)
  • Would not the people start up in their seats, by a simultaneous impulse, and tear him down out of the pulpit which he defiled?†   (source)
  • There was a good deal of difficulty in getting all the platoons (there were six) to look the same way; but, by the time they reached the defile of the bridge, the troops were in sufficiently compact order.†   (source)
  • He met us hard by, in our outward march to ambush his advance, and scattered us, like driven deer, through the defile, to the shores of Horican.†   (source)
  • Cedric and Athelstane, who were at the head of their retinue, saw the risk of being attacked at this pass; but neither of them having had much practice in war, no better mode of preventing the danger occurred to them than that they should hasten through the defile as fast as possible.†   (source)
  • We pitched the tent, and then occupied ourselves with preparations for the next day, when it was my intention to penetrate the country beyond the defile, and make a longer excursion across the savannah, than had yet been undertaken.†   (source)
  • Thus defiled by fours, with the divers insignia of their grades, in that strange faculty, most of them lame, some cripples, others one-armed, shop clerks, pilgrim, ~hubins~, bootblacks, thimble-riggers, street arabs, beggars, the blear-eyed beggars, thieves, the weakly, vagabonds, merchants, sham soldiers, goldsmiths, passed masters of pickpockets, isolated thieves.†   (source)
  • Moreover every shop pitched out half its contents upon trestles and boxes on the kerb, extending the display each week a little further and further into the roadway, despite the expostulations of the two feeble old constables, until there remained but a tortuous defile for carriages down the centre of the street, which afforded fine opportunities for skill with the reins.†   (source)
  • —Defiler of the Temple!†   (source)
  • The celebration went off with admirable pomp; monks in black robes, white robes, and russet robes stopped to look after the carriages; wandering peasants in fleeces of sheep, begged and piped under the house-windows; the English volunteers defiled; the day wore on to the hour of vespers; the festival wore away; the thousand churches rang their bells without any reference to it; and St Peter denied that he had anything to do with it.†   (source)
  • The train entered the defiles of the Sutpour Mountains, which separate the Khandeish from Bundelcund, towards evening.†   (source)
  • At present our houses are cluttered and defiled with it, and a good housewife would sweep out the greater part into the dust hole, and not leave her morning's work undone.†   (source)
  • He drew up his pistol, examined it, pointed it towards that point in the defile where the first man would appear.†   (source)
  • But now his spirit was incapable of sustaining itself at the height to which the early enthusiasm of passion had exalted it; he fell down, grovelling among earthly doubts, and defiled therewith the pure whiteness of Beatrice's image.†   (source)
  • History was already defiled with the record of the scourging of an English king with whips—it was an intolerable reflection that he must furnish a duplicate of that shameful page.†   (source)
  • Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.†   (source)
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