defiled

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In a Brighton coffee shop, I meet Paul Carter, veteran of the 80s tape-trading scene and guitarist and vocalist in Thus Defiled, who’ve spent a quarter of a century rigorously guarding their independence.

From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2017

They were magazines telling of the municipal corruption of "New York, The Vile," "Philadelphia, Defiled but Happy," "Chicago, the Base," and "St. Louis, the Decayed."

From Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent by Butler, Ellis Parker

Defiled is the temple, Its beauty laid low, On God’s holy altar The embers faint glow, By love yet rekindled, A flame may be fanned; Oh, quench not the Spirit, the Lord is at hand!”

From Secret Power or the Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work by Moody, Dwight Lyman

My hands were stained with marks of toil, Defiled with dust of earth; And I my work did ofttimes soil, And render little worth.

From Quiet Talks on Power by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)

Son of the Father, elder brother mine, See thy poor brother's plight; See how he stands Defiled and feeble, hanging down his hands!

From A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul by MacDonald, George