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Definition of Sullying
1. sully [v] - See also: sully
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sullying
Literary usage of Sullying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eminent British Lawyers by Henry Roscoe (1830)
"of his own choosing, and not one of their state trumpery.' But his lordship had
deeper reflections ; that, besides the sullying his character, ..."
2. The Works of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë by Charlotte Brontë, Patrick Branwell Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë (1896)
"Child-torturers, slave masters and drivers, I consign to the hands of jailers ;
the novelist may be excused from sullying his page with the record of his ..."
3. The Odes and Epodes of Horace by Horace, William Sewell (1850)
"Teeming with crime, hath age on age Our bridals first, and lineage, And household
hearths been sullying ; And, streaming down from this well-spring, ..."
4. The Lusiad: An Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, Thomas Moore Musgrave (1826)
"... her bright and conqu'ring star, The sullying spot her valiant Sons eras'd,
And all her glorious splendor re-appear'd. " In front the promontory, Tingis, ..."
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