"Soiled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... however, into an unhealthy pallor, and the stubbly beard which covered his cheeks and chin did not improve his appearance. Besides he was terribly out at elbows; his coat was green with age, his boots were broken, and his cuffs frayed and soiled. His hat was unnaturally shiny, and dented in two or three places. Altogether he looked as unlike a brother of the immaculate Oliver and the exquisitely-dressed Rosalind as could possibly have been found for either in the ...
— Brooke's Daughter - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... napkins, soiled by the supper of the previous night, might have enlightened the purest innocence. Claparon, thinking himself very clever, pressed his invitation ...
— Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau • Honore de Balzac
... she found herself confronted by an ill-looking fellow whose dusty and travel-soiled garments revealed the character of ...
— Do and Dare - A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... dead. Myself and two policemen followed him to the grave; and the cross of Dannebrog, with a much soiled red ribbon, was carried on a velvet cushion ...
— Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
... days at the Jardin des Plantes, watching the animals, observing their postures and movements, aiming to pluck the heart out of the mystery of each organization. In 1828 he went to England, and, although he disliked the country, its architecture, the ill-made shoes and soiled stockings of the women, he carried back with him powerful impressions from Constable and from Kean's impersonations of Shakespeare which animated all his later work. His picture of "Hamlet," although it was not completed until 1843, owes its conception to this period. His lithographs of ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 • Various
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