Vocabulary Word
Word: sully
Definition: defile; soil; tarnish; Ex. sully one's hands in menial labor
Definition: defile; soil; tarnish; Ex. sully one's hands in menial labor
Sentences Containing 'sully'
``He will sully it then,''returned Lucien;``for I am low very low.''
Having ascertained the places which it frequents and passes, they stop the way to them with mud, and then rousing it, drive it towards the spot, and as soon as the ermine comes to the mud it halts, and allows itself to be taken captive rather than pass through the mire, and spoil and sully its whiteness, which it values more than life and liberty.
When she had administered these restoratives, as I was still quite hysterical, and unable to control my sobs, she put me on the sofa, with a shawl under my head, and the handkerchief from her own head under my feet, lest I should sully the cover; and then, sitting herself down behind the green fan or screen I have already mentioned, so that I could not see her face, ejaculated at intervals, 'Mercy on us!'
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