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I am the last person in the world to think him capable of anything disgraceful, but I can't resist the conclusion that he was waiting Oh! Fay, your ears ought not to be polluted by such things was waiting about in the garden because he was attracted by someone in the house." He felt her hand quiver in his. How womanly she was, how pure.
With the high priest of all Christendom a man whose hands were stained with blood and whose private life was marred by every vice, it is not surprising that in all parts of Italy the annals of this time are tainted and polluted in every way.
To him we owe it, that we no longer see our public papers polluted by hateful advertisements of the sale of the human species, or that we are no longer distressed by the perusal of impious rewards for bringing back the poor and the helpless into slavery, or that we are prohibited the disgusting spectacle of seeing man bought by his fellow-man.
The remainder of the faction of Cylon grew strong again, and had continual quarrels with the family of Megacles; and now the quarrel being at its height, and the people divided, Solon, being in reputation, interposed with the chiefest of the Athenians, and by entreaty and admonition persuaded the polluted to submit to a trial and the decision of three hundred noble citizens.
Those who survey with a curious eye the revolutions of mankind, may observe, that the gardens and circus of Nero on the Vatican, which were polluted with the blood of the first Christians, have been rendered still more famous by the triumph and by the abuse of the persecuted religion.
On this Cleisthenes retired from the country, and Cleomenes, entering Attica with a small force, expelled, as polluted, seven hundred Athenian families. Having effected this, he next attempted to dissolve the Council, and to set up Isagoras and three hundred of his partisans as the supreme power in the state.
She sat looking at him, and passed her hand across her eyes, as if to try whether the apparition would not vanish. He, the subtle! he, the mocker! he, the Lucian of Alexandria! he whose depth and power had awed her, even in his most polluted days.... And this was the end of him....
And yet, I remember, the donkeys came up the height loaded with fruit, and with little flat-sided barrels of wine; the people had a good atmosphere except as they polluted it themselves on their high site, and there seemed to be no reason why they should not live a beautiful and jolly life.
The best days of Athens were those of the Persian war; Rome, whose inhabitants were divided from the beginning into two classes, the exploiters and the exploited, knew no such thing as peace. When property is concentrated, society, abusing itself, polluted, so to speak, grows corrupt, wears itself out how shall I express this horrible idea? plunges into long-continued and fatal luxury.
"What do I hear, my beloved?" said she, starting up with horror from the couch on which she was sitting with her face between her knees; "what! is it you that would resign home, friends, character, the possession of a virtuous woman, all for the polluted smiles of an " "Hold! hold! my Eugenia," said I; "do not, I beseech you, shock my ears with an epithet which you do not deserve!
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