attaint

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May He have mercy on him who saith: Look thou thy hoariness preserve from aught that may it stain,      For whiteness still to take attaint is passing quick and      fain.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John

Where you have little to suspect; And treach’rous persons will attaint Men, against whom there’s no complaint.

From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)

And the knight was inclined to attaint his lady for a certain cruelty in the matter; she was being something less than fair to the Unspeakable Perk.

From The Unspeakable Perk by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

He stood attainted by solemn Act of Parliament; and though the judges ruled that the possession of the crown cleared all attaint the stigma and peril remained.

From History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 by Green, John Richard

Unneth thy flocks may feed to see thee faint, Thou lost, they lean, and both with woe attaint.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia by Crow, Martha Foote