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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"By Saint Denis, I would not have been the man to asperse their blood thus, in their old halls at Grenada!"

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever

A sudden message from the king absolutely forbade them to asperse any of his majesty’s ministers, otherwise his majesty would instantly dissolve them.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

The ladies of the parish themselves had not dared to asperse her character to the gruff captain, but were contented with ignoring her existence and setting their husbands to the fray.

From Strangers and Wayfarers by Sarah Orne Jewett

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is at once a coward to the strong, and a tyrant to the weak; one of those despicable characters which get our nation unjustly aspersed.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

She had to take this "dear lady" as applying to herself; which disconcerted her when he might now so gracefully have used it for the aspersed Kate.

From The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by Henry James

On the first Sunday of his residence at the convent, as he went to high mass, he observed the friar who was sprinkling the holy water, hesitate when his turn came to be aspersed.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

When I remonstrated for more seamen, I was called an enemy to Government: now I am told that I want to strew the King's pillow with thorns: am traduced, aspersed, calumniated from morning to night.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

A third manifestation is, aspersing a man’s actions with mean censures, intimating that they proceed from wrong motives and principles.

From Talkers With Illustrations by John Bate

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

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