Soiled

Examples

• On the ledge at the side, were an empty laudanum-bottle and a tortoise-shell handled penknife--soiled, but not with ink. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• His spirits had risen, and he heartily enjoyed a good slip in the moist earth under the hedgerow, which soiled his perfect summer trousers. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Photographs can be transferred and preserved for years which would have been soiled, faded, and ruined if allowed to remain on the card. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• They were much soiled, but otherwise unhurt. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The sea they turned into a murderous alley and a soiled road of commerce, disputed like the dirty land of a city every inch of it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Each put on one nice light glove, and carried one soiled one, and all pronounced the effect quite easy and fine. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It was a history of the lives and trials of great criminals; and the pages were soiled and thumbed with use. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Everything is a ghoulish replica of the real world, a replica, a ghoul, all soiled, everything sordid. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This formidable baron was clad in a leathern doublet, fitted close to his body, which was frayed and soiled with the stains of his armour. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But her dress was both shabby and soiled, even rather dirty. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I never saw anything that did not proclaim the lady--nothing sordid, nothing soiled. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The steam-engines shone with it, the dresses of the Hands were soiled with it, the mills throughout their many stories oozed and trickled it. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It was a strange handwriting, and the paper was much soiled and blotted. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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