Stains

Examples

• The blood-stains were very slight, mere smears and discolourations, but undoubtedly fresh. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The blood-stains in the room and also on the stick are very slight. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I presume, as I see blood-stains upon it, that it is the one which was found in the dead man's grasp. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Wine-stains, fruit-stains, beer-stains, water-stains, paint-stains, pitch-stains, mud-stains, blood-stains! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Paint stains are best removed by the application of gasoline followed by soap and water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Here, its power was only a glare: a stifling, sickly glare, serving but to bring forward stains and dirt that might otherwise have slept. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• That's clear enough, for the stains lie above each other--if you lay it over this way. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The two stains did correspond, but the carpet has been turned round. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Remarkable color-tone finishes are done by acid stains. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• On the path, too, and among the heather were dark stains of clotted blood. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Sometimes these stains can be removed by soaking in milk, and where this is possible, it is the better method. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Red acid stains are destroyed by ammonia, followed by thorough washing with water. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Surely, with stains as well as the track to guide us, he cannot escape us now. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Burn stains of nitric acid are permanent. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Everything about her was warm and soft and scented: even the stains of her grief became her as rain-drops do the beaten rose. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I, in my turn, scrutinised the paper; but saw nothing on it save a few dingy stains of paint where I had tried the tint in my pencil. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• 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.
• According to the country surgeon, the lady had stains upon her face, but none upon her hand. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Anyhow, he never got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Bleaching powder is very useful in the removal of stains from white fabrics. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• How those stains were dispersed about the room! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• At any rate, there were the stains, just visible, on the inside of the dressing-gown. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Varnish and gilding hide many stains. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• If a lady stains her honour, she has only need to swallow one cake and she's cured at once--for it's poison. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.

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