All 8 Uses of
sully
in
Jane Eyre
- 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.†
Chpt 14
- He was dressed now: he still looked pale, but he was no longer gory and sullied.†
Chpt 20
- 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.†
Chpt 27
- 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.†
Chpt 27
- You make me a liar by such language: you sully my honour.†
Chpt 27 *
- 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.†
Chpt 32
- "I shall sully the purity of your floor," said he, "but you must excuse me for once."†
Chpt 33
- I did wrong: I would have sullied my innocent flower — breathed guilt on its purity: the Omnipotent snatched it from me.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(sully as in: sully her reputation) to spoil or cast doubt upon a reputation -- especially one that was previously unblemished