"Unstained" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... found, to my surprise, that I was in no fit mood for wooing the muses, and that the rhymes that were wont to be so ready to jig to my whistle were now most fretfully rebellious, and would not come, for all my application. So there I sat and stared at the unstained whiteness of my sheets and grumbled at the sluggishness of my spirit, and presently I applied myself pretty briskly to the wine-flask, in the hope of quickening my spirits. But the wine proved ...
— The God of Love • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... us, Canada! None shall fail who love you While they hold a memory of your fields where flowers are— High the task to keep unstained the skies that bend above you, Proud the life that shields you from the flaming wind ...
— Fires of Driftwood • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
... call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod; They have left unstained what there they found— Freedom to ...
— Leaves of Life - For Daily Inspiration • Margaret Bird Steinmetz
... "Goblin-Market," contains a number of very beautiful short poems; she exhibits, along with a sense of humour, a rare pathos, which, as Professor Saintsbury remarks, often "blends with or passes into the utterance of religious awe, unstained and unweakened by ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... Work-master, to robe another with their glory; men who could relinquish the noblest works of the human genius, that they might save them from the mortal stabs of an age of darkness, that they might make them over unharmed in their boundless freedom, in their unstained perfection, to the farthest ages of the advancement of learning,—that they might 'teach them how to live ...
— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon
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