stainlessness

Example Sentences

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There was something surreal in the crystal stainlessness of her delivery and tone.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 14, 2018

He spoke of the past, humbly, as though once more asking forgiveness of that stern father who to him, the son, seemed almost supernatural in his absolute virtue and stainlessness.

From Small Souls by Couperus, Louis

Master of Fate through self-control And utter stainlessness of soul! p. 168And when war’s weary sign was furl’d, Prompt with both hands to welcome in The white-wing’d Peace he warr’d to win!

From The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History by Morley, Henry

He knows his wife has the same right to demand purity in thought, word, and deed from him, as he has to ask absolute stainlessness from her.

From Threads of Grey and Gold by Reed, Myrtle

The grime that comes through loving service is better than the stainlessness of inactivity; as the poet Spenser puts it, "Entire affection hateth nicer hands."

From Problems of Conduct by Drake, Durant