Others of his following failed not in the "attaint," and horses and troopers floundered in the sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

The blood of one convicted of high treason is "attaint," and his deprivations extend to his descendants, unless Parliament remove the attainder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc] Reference

That perceived Sir Bors, and suffered him till he was nigh attaint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

But, since thou hast come to this attaint, show thy face here before thy father.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference

There is a need to work in partnership with the institutions created in terms of Chapter 9 of the Constitution to attaint his goal.    From Wordnik.com.  [TRANSFORMATION OF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM] Reference

Similarly, in Terry v. Adams, Rehnquist insisted that the Constitution does not prevent the majority from banding together, nor does it attaint success in the effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rehnquist the Great?] Reference

The pure chastity of her soul is superior to attaint!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna St. Ives] Reference

If tears my cheeks attaint, his cheeks are moist with moan.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles] Reference

If tears my cheeks attaint, his cheeks are moist with moan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia] Reference

Have you been paying any attaint ion to where the problem is?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wal-Mart Watch] Reference

For whiteness still to take attaint is passing quick and fain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III] Reference

Birds, winds, and beasts, what doth my loss your powers attaint?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia] Reference

Here was a bill to attaint persons beyond seas in another kingdom where.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry] Reference

Now Parliament was called on by the king himself to attaint his ministers and his Queens.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the English People Volume 4 (of 8)] Reference

Beaming in beauty, supreme in virtue, the resplendent aegis of truth shields her from attaint!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna St. Ives] Reference

Show me those laws which forfeit your life, attaint your blood, and beggar your wife and children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry]

Ye can see the power with her o 'this foreign fiddler, that it drives her so to attaint her own brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series] Reference

The ftatute which gave attaint in a plea real, being a penal ftatute, was never extended to a plea perfonal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The law of a justice of peace and parish officer: containing all the acts of Parliament at large concerning them, and the cases determined on those acts in the Court of King's Bench. To which is added, a collection of precedents revised and settled by persons of eminence in the law; comprising a greater variety than any other work of this kind extant] Reference

Berkshire; but in 1539, as he declined to surrender the abbey, it became necessary to attaint him of high treason.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

It resembles the process of reversing a verdict of twelve jurors by a verdict of twenty-four by the old writ of attaint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iron Making in the Olden Times as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean] Reference

Again, on the 30th October, a bill was ordered to attaint all such persons as were in rebellion against their Majesties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry] Reference

The defendant, when sued in England on a bill, pleaded the attaint of the plaintiff, who had received the pardon of Macquarie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Tasmania , Volume II] Reference

Gorges, attaint thee of high treason and of compassing the life of our most Gracious Majesty Queen Elizabeth, in company with Antony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland] Reference

Street, or to attaint any man in the kingdom of high treason, without examining witnesses against him, or hearing him in his own defence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)] Reference

He stood attainted by solemn Act of Parliament; and though the judges ruled that the possession of the crown cleared all attaint the stigma and peril remained.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540] Reference

The third attaint is of persons absent before (some time probably before) 5th November, 1688, unless they return before the 1st October, that is, within about fourteen weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry] Reference

3.8.12: With labor long: his strength it shall attaint.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other"] Reference

1.18.8: That I amazed was to hear, how loue could hym attaint.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other"] Reference

For yourself, you are, by the Prince’s evidence, freed from the attaint.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fair Maid of Perth] Reference

I suffered at the thought of their attaint for time’s changes do not modify the images in our memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Regained] Reference

Have you not brought them back from exile by one royal decree, whilst by another you have dispersed the Parliament that was assembled to attaint them of treason? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series] Reference