They have to support the honour of an ancient family, and to hand down the name untarnished to their posterity. From Wordnik.com. [Diary in America, Series Two] Reference
I like to think that you have come out of all your troubles quite unscathed, young, your name untarnished, your hands clean. From Wordnik.com. [Don Orsino] Reference
I have tried my best during my years of public service to keep that name untarnished and respected, unmarked by sorry compromises for expediency. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
22, 1512, he left behind a name untarnished, a reputation for probity unsullied. From Wordnik.com. [Amerigo Vespucci] Reference
Max Abelson and Michael McDonald of Bloomberg News debunked her "untarnished" track record and Spaceballs-worthy jabberwocky. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
While its strings were unbroken, untarnished its gold?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
It is not dirty nor silly; it is nature's untarnished truth. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Is an untarnished reputation of more importance to a woman than to a man?. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
He did more than anyone else to preserve untarnished the public credit and honor. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
One that for all her ups and downs she had striven and contrived to keep untarnished. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
Like as the lotus is untarnished by the water, so is Nirvana by any evil dispositions. From Wordnik.com. [The Essence of Buddhism] Reference
Judy, and what she did is entirely second, in my untarnished picture, to what she was. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
It was bright and untarnished, but indifferently struck, and it felt light in the hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
The first is whether an untarnished page is possible in the wake of an illegitimate war?. From Wordnik.com. [David Coates: "Turning the Page" in Iraq and Afghanistan] Reference
The razor was to keep, bright and untarnished, the traditions and prestige of the British Army!. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Tank] Reference
Teach him to honor and revere this record, and hand it untarnished down to the remotest posterity. From Wordnik.com. [Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.] Reference
At length it was actually summer -- summer in the first flush of her fresh, untarnished loveliness. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
For himself, he wanted only to keep his honor untarnished and to pass his last days as a simple citizen. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Bolivar, the Liberator] Reference
The man who endeavours to blacken the characters of others should himself possess an untarnished reputation. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Consider the transformation of poor Columbus's once relatively untarnished reputation, only a few years back. From Wordnik.com. [Goodbye, Columbus] Reference
For one thing, America's record on Bosnia has not been an untarnished triumph, nor Europe's an utter failure. From Wordnik.com. [Reaching Out] Reference
Gephardt stayed true to form, his boy-scout image untarnished and his ambitions unfulfilled in two presidential runs. From Wordnik.com. [No Sure Thing] Reference
It is the general sympathy with the desire to preserve one's selfhood untarnished that gives point to Henley's lines. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
If this blade had lain untouched, and untarnished, in its scabbard for over twenty years, it had to be what he thought. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
John sailed for England on the 12th of August, with his character either in a military or civil point of view untarnished. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
And so she bewailed them, as women will even when their hearts are brave and when their devotion is untarnished and undimmed. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
Over the tall mantelpiece there were crossed two untarnished swords which had been worn by the judge's father in the Revolution. From Wordnik.com. [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference
He bore an untarnished name, he had always a pleasant, if pompous greeting for every one, and he preached and lived like a gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
Its clean and white appearance, the untarnished splendour of the gilded railings which surround that sacred spot, pointing eastward towards. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference
He cares infinitely more, however, for their moral cleanness, spiritual growth, untarnished fidelity, unconquerable faith, and everlasting honor. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference
They meant that the officer should be secure in his tenure as long as his personal character remained untarnished and the performance of his duties satisfactory. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
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