1 From this came the first taint of ill; from this did Ulysses ever threaten me with fresh charges, from this flung dark sayings among the crowd and sought confederate arms.
2 Those seeds have fiery force and divine birth, so far as they are not clogged by taint of the body and dulled by earthy frames and limbs ready to die.
3 The gloomy taint that was in the Murdstone blood, darkened the Murdstone religion, which was austere and wrathful.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE 4 Bounderby and Gradgrind now walked, was a triumph of fact; it had no greater taint of fancy in it than Mrs. Gradgrind herself.
5 A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.
6 He was a shopkeeper in whom there was some taint of the monster.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S... 7 Most fortunate, therefore, was it for Rome that her kings grew corrupt soon, so as to be driven out before the taint of their corruption had reached the vitals of the city.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII. 8 "Then, you must think all my money is tainted," cried Scarlett beginning to be angry.
9 When within a few yards of the cover, he fitted an arrow to his bow with the utmost care, while the antlers moved, as if their owner snuffed an enemy in the tainted air.
10 A man like yourself; and one whose blood is as little tainted by the cross of a bear, or an Indian, as your own.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26 11 A few books and writings were on an old bureau in a corner, the furniture was decent and sufficient, and, though the atmosphere was tainted, the room was clean.
12 The atmosphere seemed tainted with the smell of coffins.
13 I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.
14 I began to fear that the fatal spell of the place was upon her, tainted as she is with that Vampire baptism.
15 From this spring two results, the land impoverished, and the water tainted.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA