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With this threat blazoned, the British note went on to asperse individually and by name five officials of the Soviet Government.

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The hereditary duties of the King's Champion are to "gird himself in complete armor," ride out upon a noble charger, fling down his gauntlet, offer to fight all "liars and traitors" who asperse King Edward.

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Let no man write my epitaph; for, as no one who knows my motives dares now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them.

From Shakspere, Personal Recollections by John A. Joyce

Thus far we may credit him— but what man of common sense can believe, that Richard went so far as publicly to asperse the honor of his own mother?

From Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Horace Walpole

To impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; to reproach.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

During the first nine months of 1923 there were: Births 584,458 Deaths 506,007 Birth rate excess 78,451 The Paris press aspersed U. S. lib erty.

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The King's personal courage Pitt had publicly and wantonly aspersed; Hanover and the Hanoverians he had held up to every form of public hatred and contempt.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery

Her heart, I dare say, performed its grave duties properly, and should not be aspersed; some bilious derangement was no doubt at the bottom of her singular conduct.

From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie

He sent two gentlemen to Boston to obtain satisfaction, and received only a letter "clearing the magistrates, but not the generalty, still aspersed without any known cause, complaint or notice."

From A Memoir of Sir Edmund Andros, Knt., Governor of New England, New York and Virginia, &c., &c. by William Henry Whitmore

Once more, all the old, worn-out charges were trumped up, including even that by which the Princess Margaret’s name had been so cruelly aspersed.

From Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century by Emily Sarah Holt

He had brought this suit against Le Journal of Paris for libelously aspersing his patriotism as an Alsatian.

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J. Without unfairly aspersing Homer Cummings, it can be said that the D. o.

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Here we see the origin of the tale relating to the duchess of York; nullus certus & incorruptus sangnis: from these mistaken or perverted words flowed the report of Richard's aspersing his mother's honour.

From Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Horace Walpole

The clerk goes before the cross-bearer and the bishop bearing his holy-water vessel and his sprinkler for the purpose of aspersing the spectators.

From The Parish Clerk by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

Nel didn’t tell you, I suppose, while he was engaged in aspersing my character, that there is a feud of long standing between us which is principally of his making?”

From The Shadow of the Past by F.E. Mills Young