Tainted

Examples

• Her surprise increased with her indifference: he almost fancied that she suspected him of being tainted with foreignness. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• This is now a tainted place, and I well know the taint of it clings to me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Why the tainted wether of the flock, am I not struck to earth among the first? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They have injured the finest mind; for sometimes, Fanny, I own to you, it does appear more than manner: it appears as if the mind itself was tainted. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Here is the Napoleonic view of the political uses of Christ, a view that has tainted all French missions from that time forth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You have been tainted with it for a long time now. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But, suddenly, this simple emotion of pleasure was tainted, poisoned by jealousy. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The plague is in London; the air of England is tainted, and her sons and daughters strew the unwholesome earth. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Adrian's countenance flitted across, tainted by death--Idris, with eyes languidly closed and livid lips, was about to slide into the wide grave. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The atmosphere seemed tainted with the smell of coffins. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• To keep meat for several days from becoming high or tainted: Place it for twenty or thirty minutes in an aqueous solution of 8 drachms of salicylic acid to one gallon of water. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• I have been set down as tainted and should be cheapened to them all the same. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You look as if you thought it tainted you to be loved by me. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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