"Attaint" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... never wont disclose, But when as monsters huge he would dismay, Or daunt unequall armies of his foes, 295 Or when the flying heavens he would affray; For so exceeding shone his glistring ray, That Phoebus golden face it did attaint, As when a cloud his beames doth over-lay; And silver Cynthia[*] wexed pale and faint, 300 As when her face is staynd with magicke ...
— Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I • Edmund Spenser
... search'd with Reason's eye, This desp'rate guilt he had not known, Nor branch and root his house o'erthrown." Nor wholly scorn, nor yet attend Too much at what the tatlers vend, Because there's many a sad neglect. Where you have little to suspect; And treach'rous persons will attaint Men, against whom there's no complaint. Hence simple folks too may be taught How to form judgments as they ought, And not see with another's glass; For things are come to such a pass, That love and hate work diff'rent ways, As int'rest or ambition sways. Them you may know, in them confide, Whom ...
— The Fables of Phdrus - Literally translated into English prose with notes • Phaedrus
... King, "we may not, in respect to your followers, refuse to the injured widow and orphans, the complainers, the grant of a proof by ordeal of bier right, unless any of them should prefer that of combat. For yourself, you are, by the Prince's evidence, freed from the attaint." ...
— The Fair Maid of Perth • Sir Walter Scott
... puberty had sexual intercourse with the Devil. This is even stated as a fact by so great an authority as Bodin: 'Les diables ne font point de paction expresse auec les enfans, qui leurs sont vouez, s'ils n'ont attaint l'aage de puberte.'[681] The details of the trials show that this statement is accurate. 'Magdalene de la Croix, Abbesse des Moniales de Cordouee en Espaigne, confessa que Satan n'eust point copulation, ...
— The Witch-cult in Western Europe - A Study in Anthropology • Margaret Alice Murray
... captured only by a gentleman, not by any such homunculus as the mountain dweller. Her interest, perhaps; the man possessed the bizarre attraction of the freakish. But anything else was absurd. And the knight was inclined to attaint his lady for a certain cruelty in the matter; she was being something less than ...
— The Unspeakable Perk • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... believe the new law. Wherefore was the joy great in the castle for that their death should now be respited, and that they should be released of all terror of the knight that was their foe, whom they dreaded even to the death, and of the sin of the false law whereof they had heretofore been attaint. ...
— High History of the Holy Graal • Unknown
... condemnation, conviction, judgment, penalty, sentence; proscription, damnation; death warrant. attainder, attainture[obs3], attaintment[obs3]. V. condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, sequestrate; nonsuit[obs3]. disapprove &c. 932; accuse &c. 938. stand condemned. Adj. condemnatory, damnatory[obs3]; guilty, condemned &c.v.; nonsuited &c. (failure) 732[obs3]; self-convicted. Phr. mutato nomine de te ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... replied: "That post shall be my care, Nor that alone, but all the works of war. How would the sons of Troy, in arms renown'd, And Troy's proud dames, whose garments sweep the ground, Attaint the lustre of my former name, Should Hector basely quit the field of fame! My early youth was bred to martial pains, My soul impels me to the embattled plains: Let me be foremost to defend the throne, And guard my father's glories ...
— Mosaics of Grecian History • Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson |
