Sentence examples for stain of a from inspiring English sources

Though pure before, I now shall carry into exile the stain of a mother's blood.

The sofa stain of a previous occupant untouched by housekeeping would normally be a cardinal sin in my husband's book.

There is pathos and a stylish brittleness in her intonations, and her thin, papery voice matches a phrase used by her character: "the stain of a scream".

Then, huddled against the rugged pine-clad hillsides, there's the sudden, almost shocking, white stain of a village, a "pueblo blanco".

The horizons in Hughes's poems are creation and the infinite, while a dark malevolence and a 'legendary depth' lurk in simple things, like the thistles that bear the 'dark stain of a Viking'.

It is shocking to realise that there are still people alive today who were unjustly criminalised in their youth, and who have carried the stain of a criminal record, as a sex offender, through almost their entire adult lives.

(iii) Negative staining of Ad particles.

Perhaps merely the stain of an ongoing criminal investigation; see explanation one, above.

"Pure water will not wash away the stain of an im moral war, he declared.

Over 3,500 executions are merely the first stain of an atrocious report card of human rights violations.

After the Liberation, my grandfather was jobless for a few years because of the stain of being a Kuomintang officer.