"Unsullied" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this day heard that a rumor has been spread of my possessing lands in America, and exciting an interest in certain high quarters. I now declare that this is all false. I am the son of a late accountant in Ostrau, and I inherit from my parents hardly any thing beyond an unsullied name. You, madam, have been kind enough to invite me, an insignificant stranger, to take part in your reunions this winter. After what I have just heard, I dare do so no longer, lest I should thus substantiate the idle reports I have mentioned, and be suspected of imposing ...
— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag
... myself with all the decorum and nicety befitting the person of Sir Paul's wife? Have I preserved my honour as it were in a snow-house for these three years past? Have I been white and unsullied even ...
— The Comedies of William Congreve - Volume 1 [of 2] • William Congreve
... the unsullied, the fine theoretical moralist, was to return along that road a thief. A thief of parts, of ...
— Bunker Bean • Harry Leon Wilson
... my courtesan go on the stage? No, she shall be a pure courtesan, she shall remain unsullied of any labour. She might appear once on the boards;—no, no, she must remain a pure courtesan. Charming subject! It will make a book. Charming opportunity for wit, satire, fancy. I shall write the introductory letter ...
— Mike Fletcher - A Novel • George (George Augustus) Moore
... unknown, and the half-starved settlement in and around Sydney represented the sole wealth of that isle of continent; when the Cape of Good Hope was looked on only as a port of call; when the United States numbered less than five and a half million souls, and the waters of the Mississippi rolled in unsullied majesty past a few petty Spanish stations—the plantations of the West Indies seemed the unfailing mine of colonial industry and commerce. Under the ancien regime, the trade of the French portion of San Domingo is reported to have represented more ...
— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose
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