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Definition of Soilures
1. soilure [n] - See also: soilure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soilures
Literary usage of Soilures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Italy, Past and Present by Antonio Carlo Napoleone] [Gallenga (1848)
"... wash off the soilures by which long thraldom has defiled their national character.
Their princes could only allure, not force them to immorality. ..."
2. The Chief European Dramatists: Twenty-one Plays from the Drama of Greece by Brander Matthews (1916)
"... life is stained with soilures; \nd all is but a mass of crime and filth; ib-1
ven, for my punishment, I pee it plainly, Would mortify me now. ..."
3. Continental Drama: Calderon, Corneille, Racine, Molière, Lessing, Schiller by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Molière, Jean Racine, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Schiller (1910)
"... I am wicked, I am guilty, A miserable sinner, steeped in evil, The greatest
criminal that ever lived. Each moment of my life is stained with soilures; ..."
4. Continental Drama: Calderon, Corneille, Racine, Molière, Lessing, Schiller by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Schiller (1910)
"Each moment of my life is stained with soilures; And all is but a mass of crime
and filth; Heaven, for my punishment, I see it plainly, ..."
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