attaint

Example Sentences

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What simple thief brags of his own attaint?

From The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Clark, William George

Others of his following failed not in the "attaint," and horses and troopers floundered in the sand.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart

Thou canst attaint even those among the watch Of most integrity, and teach even those To waver who had thought to waver never.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den

They paused facing each other, and examined eagerly into their respective means of defence before hazarding a blow, which, if it missed, its attaint would certainly be fatally requited.

From Waverley Novels — Volume 12 by Scott, Walter, Sir

With such janissaries and a penal code comprising everything in its elastic obscurity, there was no need for exceptional laws in order to attaint all Paris.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.