Then go all over the ham with a dull knife, scraping off every bit of removable grease or soilure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference

For a few years his power increased, without one base measure, without any soilure on the blazon of increasing prosperity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873] Reference

All hearts sink; Latinus goes with torn raiment, in dismay at his wife's doom and his city's downfall, defiling his hoary hair with soilure of sprinkled dust.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

Elysium, some few of us to possess the happy fields; till length of days completing time's circle takes out the ingrained soilure and leaves untainted the ethereal sense and pure spiritual flame.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

We see in all his private and political life "the soilure of his revolutionary origin," — proofs that he loved money and power far more than he loved honor, and himself far more than his country or mankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference

That love knew no soilure in the passage of the years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Robert Browning] Reference

His coarse, ill-matched attire was whole and, but for the soilure of foot-travel, clean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana] Reference

He must feel perfectly clean and free -- fresh, as if he had washed away all the years of soilure in this morning's sea and sun and sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trespasser] Reference

And she was intimately conscious of a soilure, a moral stain, as the result of her recent contacts with the man of business in her husband.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leonora] Reference

When Flora the next evening stole a passing glance at the ugly trinket in its place she was pleased to note how well it retained its soilure of clay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kincaid's Battery] Reference

There, holding it in her claws, she proceeded to wash it thoroughly, sousing it up and down till there was not a vestige of soilure to be found upon it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life] Reference

Insanely he switched on the electric torch and flashed it up and down the niche, though in the dazzling moonlight its rays were but a small circular soilure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Judge] Reference

The delicate "baby blue" attracted him by its perishability, its suggestion of impossible refinements beyond the soilure and dust of his own grimy circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Exile and Other Stories] Reference

You could see that he prided himself on the spotlessness of his linen; his cuffs were turned up to avoid alcoholic soilure; their vast links hung loose for better observance by customers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demos] Reference

Their opposites would have convicted me (the flat and earthly comparison must be allowed) of intrusion into some Place of beauty and serenity for which the soilure of my birth disqualified me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Widdershins] Reference

And to save from soilure the dainty fabric she was working at, I would rise and wipe her fingers with my handkerchief; whereupon she would coo out the sweetest "thank you," in the world, and perhaps hold up a diminutive garment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel] Reference

He must feel perfectly clean and free — fresh, as if he had washed away all the years of soilure in this morning’s sea and sun and sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trespasser] Reference

For me, just parted from the desperate battle, with slaughter fresh upon me, to handle them were guilt, until I wash away in a living stream the soilure .... ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

Bryan: Vastidity is a noun, not an adjective; if you're going to say "...soilure, tortive, and vastidity, which mean, as one might expect, staining, twisted, and..." you have to finish with a grammatically parallel form, in this case "bigness" or the like.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MORE BAD WRITING.] Reference

To compare The Firs with that plain little dwelling on the skirts of a Yorkshire manufacturing town which she called her home, was to understand the inestimable advantage of those born into the material refinement which wealth can command, of those who breathe from childhood the atmosphere of liberal enjoyment, who walk from the first on clean ways, with minds disengaged from anxiety of casual soilure, who know not even by domestic story the trammels of sordid preoccupation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Life's Morning] Reference

Then fearing rust or soilure fashioned for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Idylls of the King] Reference

From soilure of ignoble touch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems of William Watson] Reference

For all my spirit's soilure is put by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gloucester Moors and Other Poems] Reference

And all my body's soilure, lacking now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gloucester Moors and Other Poems] Reference

Not making any scruple of her soilure—.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act IV. Scene I. Troilus and Cressida] Reference

Of shameful soilure for a shameless deed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Plays in English Verse] Reference

7: Then fearing rust or soilure fashion'd for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lancelot and Elaine] Reference

Clean of the soilure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giant Hours with Poet Preachers] Reference

I don't want this to be any longer than it has to, and I respect the intelligence and literacy of my readers, so I will simply quote a series of sentences, putting in bold the bits that reveal bad style or plain idiocy and adding the occasional bracketed remark: "Among those Shakespeare used, but he almost alone, were soilure, tortive, and vastidity, which mean, as one might expect, staining, twisted, and big.".    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MORE BAD WRITING.] Reference