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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
While few ventured to asperse the character of President Menocal himself, his administration was vilified as corrupt and inefficient.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 4 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
Stop, Ernest, you are beside yourself," said Mrs. Linwood, and the mounting color in her face deepened to crimson,—"you shall not thus asperse a good and guileless man.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz
You have presumed—in a company, certainly, where the hazard of contradiction was small—to asperse a gentleman of whom you know nothing,—not one single fact,—not one iota of his life, character, or fortune.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever
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
Florentius, a priest in the neighboring country, though unworthy to bear that sacred character, moved by a secret jealousy, persecuted the saint, and aspersed his reputation with grievous slanders.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
No pleader would ruin himself by defending a girl thus heavily aspersed.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet
For of late years the character of the British sparrow has been aspersed in this country, but more particularly abroad; and I think he ought to have a fair and impartial trial.
From In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life by Gordon Stables
On those very boards whence Dryden was to have derived the means of his existence and his fame, he saw his foibles aggravated, and his morals aspersed.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
He had brought this suit against Le Journal of Paris for libelously aspersing his patriotism as an Alsatian.
From Time Magazine Archive
J. Without unfairly aspersing Homer Cummings, it can be said that the D. o.
From Time Magazine Archive
She went still further, and wreaked her vengeance on St. James for the wounds he had inflicted on her vanity, by aspersing and slandering the innocent Rosalie.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz
I understood the persistence of Alexis in aspersing her character.
From Marie; a story of Russian love by Marie H. de Zielinska
The enormous excitement caused in 1709 by Sacheverell's sermon in St. Paul's Cathedral advocating passive obedience, denouncing toleration, and aspersing the Revolution settlement, forms a striking chapter in the reign of Queen Anne.
From The Age of Pope (1700-1744) by John Dennis
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