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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

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

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

"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

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 claims of the shippers were instantly allowed by the secretary of state, with the usual interest; and Mr. Dowling, who had been aspersed by the local government, was amply vindicated by the commissioners.

From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West

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

The offender must bathe in the ocean; the kumu then aspersed him with holy water, uttered a prayer, ordered a penalty, an offering to the kuahu, and declared the offender clean.

From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Nathaniel Bright Emerson

This lady's charms the nicest could not blame, But vile suspicions had aspersed her fame; That was with sense, but not with virtue, blest:240 And one had grace, that wanted all the rest.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Alexander Pope

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.

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I understood the persistence of Alexis in aspersing her character.

From Marie; a story of Russian love by Marie H. de Zielinska

He did not mind discrediting the Council, aspersing its most devoted members, so that he resented a trespass on his vanity.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary

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