How To Use Defile In A Sentence

In Katine sub-county we hear about rape, defilement and child abuse, mostly of girls.
Around his neck he wore his white robe, the bottom of which was stained red by the blood that now defiled the sacred hall's floor.
Sanctification, so far as it relates to the removal of spiritual defilement, is illustrated; and that man cannot purge himself from his natural pravity is proved, iv. Pneumatologia
Are these textiles Baroque draperies, shrouds or the curtains of a luxurious four-poster bed defiled and destroyed?
Instead, all the clifty defiles of the ranges were filled with the roar of flames and the crackling of burning timbers as town after town was given to the firebrand, and the homeless, helpless Cherokees frantically fleeing to the densest coverts of the wilderness, -- that powerful truculent tribe! The Frontiersmen

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Why'd you have to come here and... "the contempt deepened"... and... defile everything? GALILEE
learn to speak pure English undefiled
The defile itself continues but you, unless you are hardy and ambitious, do not.
And she called the undefiled daughters of the Hebrews, and they led (attended her). Word from the Desert
A jagged chasm ran across the cavern, and on the other side of the defile was a writhing sea of furred flesh and sharp teeth. Curse of the Shadowmage
Shetland has been almost totally denuded while at least some remnants of ancient woodland remain on Orkney, hidden in deep defiles and remoter islands.
And that consideration which ingenerates shame and self-abhorrency on the account of the defilement of sin is taken peculiarly from the holiness of God. Pneumatologia
Forbearing to engage in the open field, where the gain would lie wholly with the enemy, he lay stoutly embattled on ground where the citizens must reap advantage; since, as he doggedly persisted, to march out meant to be surrounded on every side; whereas to stand at bay where every defile gave a coign of vantage, would give him mastery complete. 46 Agesilaus
In this passage, Oothoon's rhetoric of purity and defilement reveals her unwitting capitulation to Theotormon's ascetic dualism (which opposes chastity to harlotry), while her use of the verb "rend" in her instruction to Theotormon's eagles implies, most appallingly, an invited repetition of Bromion's act of rape. Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_
He says we mythify rivers in poems and literature, even as we defile them with human use CNN.com
The I understanding the cause of his miserable estate, sayd unto him, In faith thou art worthy to sustaine the most extreame misery and calamity, which hast defiled and maculated thyne owne body, forsaken thy wife traitorously, and dishonoured thy children, parents, and friends, for the love of a vile harlot and old strumpet. The Golden Asse
It's people like Prather who trivialize the world, turning a buck on whatever rare loveliness they can defile in the name of commerce. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
'Professor Palafox/the maestro thundered,' usury is usury and we inust allow the merchants of Antwerp no Mexican loophole through which they can defile the law of the church. ' Mexico
Nippur's Holy of Holies is defiled.
They find the Temple defiled and turned into a pagan sanctuary.
The defile was narrow, with the sensation of narrowing further rather than opening out as it neared the lake. THE LAST RAVEN
Not desiring to defile the wall of the consecrated place, I went round the corner to spit into the gutter.
Compare "undefiled" and "unspotted from the world," Jas 1: 27; 4: 4, 8, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
My dove, my undefiled is one," says the Song of Solomon (So 6: 9). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Few Japanese of the better classes have ever visited such a village; and even the poorest of the common people shun the place as they would shun a centre of contagion; for the idea of defilement, both moral and physical, is still attached to the very name of its inhabitants. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints
There's a defiled cemetery in the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the city I was born in. People who can't afford to pay funerary services often bury their loved ones here.
In Buddhist terms this necessity of alternation is called the defilement of apprehending the two truths as if they were different entities. Becoming Enlightened
Pourtant, et alors que je commençais à me faire une raison, en me persuadant qu'avec un jean je n'aurais peut-être pas l'air trop ridicule (quoi que?) je me suis sentie comme soulagée lorsqu'une phrase prononcée par une commentatrice de défilés de mode m'est revenue à l'esprit: "Cette année, être tendance n'est plus tendance". Mode
_Delight_ is naturally formed by the participle _de_ and _light_, to make light, in the same way as "debase," to make base, "defile," to make foul. Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850
A large proportion of these were peace offerings, which afforded to the people the means of festive enjoyment. all Israel ... from the entering in of Hamath -- that is, the defile at Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
He seemed so tranquil and his features were so soft and undefiled.
The upper strip, a cornice of fir trees etched against the sky; below the tinted mass of forest crowding down to the floor of the defile by the waters of the blue Arazas.
From here a footpath runs north, through a narrow defile between Meall na h-Aodainn Moire and Creag Bhreac past Loch a'Choire and up steep slopes to the summit ridge.
Stream, and yew and arbutus, as well as tropical cryptogamia and Alpine plants, overgrow every available spot along the sides of the rough defile. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway
Where the Gloss is, If those plagues come by the insufflation of the devil, which do not defile the man. From the Talmud and Hebraica
There were several narrow defiles and one unfordable mountain stream along the road.
These are the defilements of sensuous desire, ill-will or anger, sloth and torpor, agitation and worry, and doubt.
And there was the allurement, the gathering of the data; the great critical point where purity reaches dreamy hands towards pitch and refuses to call it pitch -- till defiled. CHAPTER 7
Or tear their name defiled from Slavery’s mournful page. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
If yogi cannot escape these defilements, he cannot go on to higher stages of insight.
We have not treated our brethren in the animal kingdom well and we've defiled much of the space they need to live.
A third factor that has made Lopez an accomplice to the defilement of the Peten is the need for energy.
The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.
Will variations in trafficability or lane width force changes in formations or movement techniques or require defile drills? FM 71-1 Chapter 2 Battle Command
However, about 80 percent of the Canadian boreal forest is still undefiled.
That reached, compensation for the ugly scenery we had to pass through began when we entered a beautiful mountain defile, about two hours from Damascus. The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
One who does not know the topography of mountains and forests, ravines and defiles, wetlands and marshes cannot maneuver the army.
You can’t touch pitch without being defiled.
Before us the defile was a slit which was half choked by rock falls from above. Year of the Unicorn
Why'd you have to come here and... "the contempt deepened"... and... defile everything? GALILEE
I, at least, am certain that I speak the truth, when I call my patroness a virgin undefiled. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth
Habitually, the dismounted scouts would be let off the vehicle at least four kilometers from the defile, out of sight and sound of the enemy's suspected screen line.
You can’t touch pitch without being defiled.
Speaking of defiles: ever wonder how to get your force through a restrictive mountain pass?
We have allowed ourselves to be dirtied, to be defiled; and the worst of it is that we have done this to ourselves.
And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen hands, they found fault. Mark 7.
Chinatown child, you're a Chinatown child, cursed by the temple your father defiled.
My friend, Mr. Webster puts it this way: Profane1: Not being concerned with religion or religious purposes, secular 2: Not Holy because unconsecrated, impure, or unsanctified 3: Serving to defile what is Holy.
About 1500 all the long i-vowels, whether original (as in write, ride, wine) or unrounded from Anglo-Saxon ü (as in hide, bride, mice, defile), became diphthongized to ei (i.e., e of met + short i). Chapter 8. Language as a Historical Product: Phonetic Law
The defile was a death trap, where huge pistons shot out and slammed across from side to side. Worldshaker
On the ground itself there is no defile, no gorge, no precipitous mountain pass, nothing which can remotely be called a Gap from the point of view of anybody on the ground.
We find imprecations against people who break laws, defile a sanctuary, commit perjury, or pollute a grave, amongst other things.
Tombstones in a Jewish cemetery had been defiled.
He would not have her name defiled in the mouths of such men as drank his wine daily and nightly, and disputed the existence of any virtue in woman. The Golden Dog
The disciples, whose minds were occupied with their lack of provisions, the moment they heard the word leaven, thought of bread, concluded it must be because of its absence that he spoke of leaven, and imagined perhaps a warning against some danger of defilement from Unspoken Sermons Second Series
Spiritual impurity or moral defilement starts on the inside.
And if the flesh in its lusting will immix itself with our good actions to their defilement and impairing, why may not the Spirit in the ill The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
It's a shame that such a beautiful area has been defiled by a rubbish dump.
It was a grassy, briery, moist defile, affording some shelter to any person who had sought it; but the party perambulated it in vain, and ascended on the other side. Wessex Tales
But what are these defilements and pollutions which make us unmeet to approach unto the presence of God, The Sermons of John Owen
The only way through this barrier was an infamous pass known as the Cilician Gates, a narrow defile barely wide enough for a handful of men to march side by side. Alexander the Great
It's a shame that such a beautiful area has been defiled by a rubbish dump.
The route to the village lies through the mile-long Alikhel gorge, a narrow defile that is perfect for an ambush - as the mujahideen had found against the Russians.
The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it
No heart will be left unsatisfied; no spirit will mourn in unrequited love, for that happy region is the abode of love – of love without the defilements or the disquietudes of mortality, for there it is an everlasting, pure enjoyment. The Scottish Chiefs
Down on the floor of Hualapai Canyon we swung right and entered a gradually narrowing, slowly descending defile.
The apostle takes this for granted: Seeing you have, &c. To purify the soul supposes some great uncleanness and defilement which had polluted it, and that this defilement is removed. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
The descent was rugged and romantic, along deep ravines and defiles, overhung with crags and cliffs, among which they beheld numbers of the ahsahta or bighorn, skipping fearlessly from rock to rock. Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains
What's remarkable about his filmmaking is the ability to present scenes of shocking defilement without a hint of prurience or gratuitousness.
You can’t touch pitch without being defiled.
Best described as the twang that rang throughout the world and originally performed by The Shadows in the sixties after Bert Lordan bashed it out on a ukulele, Apache has been defiled by jazz musicians as well as Moog-munting Danes. Computerworld
She had been training to become a priestess, when she had been defiled.
The absence of a good moral character defiled perceived beauty, making the latter superficial.
You can’t touch pitch without being defiled.
It's a shame that such a beautiful area has been defiled by a rubbish dump.
There they found that they could light the Menorah for only one day, due to a lack of undefiled oil.
Scattered along the bottom of the defile were the men who had fallen at the first fire, and Sanderson's eye glinted with rage when he looked at them; for he recognized some of them as men of the outfit for whom he had conceived a liking. Square Deal Sanderson
That which he doth, is only to conskite, spoil, and defile all, which is the cause wherefore he hath of all men mocks, frumperies, and bastinadoes. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Such was the story of Pontitianus; but Thou, O Lord, while he was speaking, didst turn me round towards myself, taking me from behind my back where I had placed me, unwilling to observe myself; and setting me before my face, that I might see how foul I was, how crooked and defiled, bespotted and ulcerous. The Confessions
From every one talked to it is clear that men that defile girls or rape women have no excuse whatsoever.
But this is the most genuinely gracious fear of sin, when we dread the defilement of it, and that contrariety which is in it to the holiness of God. Pneumatologia
The air is filled with sulphurous gas, the streets are covered with debris from fireworks and rivers are defiled by chemicals.
But compared with sickness that is always real and palpable, defilement not resulting from disease (e.g., ritually impure food), is fictional.
Habitual preparation: "I will wash my hands in innocency; I will carefully watch against all sin, and keep my conscience pure from those dead works which defile it and forbid my drawing nigh to God. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
For at what time he ministred the sacrament of baptisme to him; shortlie after he came into this world, he defiled the font with the ordure of his wombe (as hath beene said:) whervpon Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8) The Seventh Boke of the Historie of England
_Delight_ is naturally formed by the participle _de_ and _light_, to make light, in the same way as "debase," to make base, "defile," to make foul. Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850
Defile, and then flee to the bliss of oblivion.
No homely Boston phrase defiled their anglicized lips, their great collars stood up under their chins in an ecstasy of stiffness, and their shirt - fronts bore two buttons, avoiding the antiquity of three and the vulgarity of one. An American Politician
You can’t touch pitch without being defiled.
You can’t touch pitch without being defiled.
The hoodlums defiled the church with their scurrilous writing.
Now you know what it feels like to have your property defiled by ill-bred scum.
The scale, after all, is not gigantic; but the light and shadow come in grandly at certain hours, throwing one side of the defile into brilliant sunshine and the other into profoundest gloom, with an effect never to be obtained in either Pfeffers or Trient. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
Nor do they only thirst after blood, but with other iniquities are their fingers defiled (v. 3); they wrong people in their estates and make every thing their own that they can lay their hands on. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
The heart must be kept pure from fleshly lusts, all unchaste thoughts and desires; and from worldly lusts; covetousness is called filthy lucre; from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, all that which come out of the heart, and defiles the man. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
There are many sins, little ones, that in our practice pass for venal and uncontrolled; but look on the filthy loathsome nature of all sin, and hate the least offence, for it hath a kind of infiniteness in it, and blotteth the soul, defileth the person. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
The lotus flower symbolises the complete purification of the defilements of the body, speech and mind, and the full blossoming of wholesome deeds in blissful liberation.
It's a shame that such a beautiful area has been defiled by a rubbish dump.
It is also one of unredeemed and unredeemable ugliness, of a landscape despoiled and defiled.
It is sickening that old men and grandfathers can develop this ‘who-gives-a-damn’ attitude and go on the rampage to defile young girls, some of them only a few months old.
In fact, I plan on doing a lot of so-called defilement right away. Acorna's Rebels
Not a scrap of paper or a sheet of plastic mars its ancient premises in sharp contrast to the clutter that usually defiles our heritage sites.
Compare "undefiled" and "unspotted from the world," Jas 1: 27; 4: 4, 8, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The students defiled through the gate of the school.
The defilements lead to unskillful actions, which generate karma, the infallible operation of cause and effect in the mental continuum of each individual.
R. Ishmael understands “he may defile himself” as granting the kohen permission, if he so chooses, while “R. Akiva says, It is obligatory” (BT Sotah 3a). Akiva, Rabbi.
Unauthorized duplication is a defilement of applicable laws.www. newwestrecords.com '/' 6''07396-6089-2'8''multimedia'disc '. Archive 2009-12-01
They also say that the tower defiles the hills around Chimayo, which are venerated by the Tewa people. Errors of Enchantment » Can the Government tell us what to do with our property?
When sin and defilement accumulate in our hearts, we need to be cleansed.
The revelations have been received gleefully in French publishing and literary circles, where the author is regarded as a jumped-up interloper who has defiled French literature.
Oh, no, Ember only pretended to make out with Cale, so her lips are still undefiled.
And so the Path led me by many narrow defiles and crumbling ridges to the mouth of a cave.
The infidels defiled the holy shrine.
Bear in mind, then, that expressions of regret over the defilement of sacred images are likely to attract rebukes from certain ‘modern’ and ‘spiritual’ types of Westerner.
Then all the foreign matter, the defilement which earth pours into them, falls to the ground, and into them the trout work up for life and health and food; and through their swift yet yielding eddies -- _moulding themselves to every accident_, _yet separate and undefiled_ -- shine up the delicate beauties of the subaqueous world, the Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife
Hindus attach great importance to food, and her presence where it was prepared defiled everything the community ate.
He had defiled the sacred name of the Holy Prophet.
Pentateuch and the Prophets is an evidence of his power: the unity of his name is inscribed on the first table of the law; and his sanctuary was never defiled by any visible image of the invisible essence. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Defiler: Repulsion: Reduces attributes by a set amount instead of a percentage. Duration increased.
They are: (i) to meditate on the evil karmic consequences of birth and death, (ii) to increase the seeds of good, and (iii) to crush out all the defilements(28).
A Cossack is inclined to hate less the dzhigit hillsman who maybe has killed his brother, than the soldier quartered on him to defend his village, but who has defiled his hut with tobacco-smoke. The Cossacks
There's a defiled cemetery in the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the city I was born in. People who can't afford to pay funerary services often bury their loved ones here.
Jeames's was a very delicate hand; Miss Flouncy admired it very much, and of course he did not defile it by menial service: he had in a young man who called him sir, and did all the coarse work; and Jeames read the morning paper to the ladies; not spellingly and with hesitation, as many gentlemen do, but easily and elegantly, speaking off the longest words without a moment's difficulty. Burlesques
It was plainly said, "Not that which goeth into a man's mouth, but that which cometh out of a man's mouth, defileth him," and therefore the question of baptizing the uncircumcised could only have arisen among men who, though they loved their Master and dimly felt the grandeur of his teaching, still did not understand the teaching itself very clearly. The Kingdom of God Is Within You
And when the provost heard this he was greatly moved, and sent for a multitude of people, and made Eugenia to be brought with the other servants of Jesu Christ bound in iron, and established a day when they all should be delivered to beasts for to be devoured, and then were they called tofore the provost, which said to Eugenia: Say to me, thou right cursed wretch, if your God hath taught you to do such works as for to corrupt and defile the women forcibly against their will? The Golden Legend, vol. 5
I declare, and I must declare, that the Order is innocent. Its purity and saintliness have never been defiled.
Or tear their name defiled from Slavery's mournful page. Mosaics of Grecian History
And then they defiled the sacred name of Christ many times in my presence.
The air is filled with sulphurous gas, the streets are covered with debris from fireworks and rivers are defiled by chemicals.
The view is mind-boggling, with a precipitous drop into the defile of the Lairig Ghru, the great pass that splits the Cairngorms, linking Aviemore and Braemar.
The condemned is reduced to a body to be kept and then eliminated in a ‘ritual expulsion of that which pollutes and defiles’.
Jesus seems neither to have confirmed nor to have denied that eating impure food leads to ritual defilement.
“After the funeral no woman to enter the house save only _those defiled_; to wit — mother, wife, sisters, and daughters; beside these not more than five women and two girls, _daughters of first cousins_: beyond these, none.” ( On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay
We explore Via Mala - a slitlike defile so narrow that only one traveler at a time could trace its gloomy medieval footpath.
‘Your hands are too dirty to defile the hilt of my mentor's sword,’ said Wolfus, as he kept back his sword.
Ignorance, the essence of which consists in believing in the distinction between subject and object, is also called defilement and the highest truth passes through various stages of defilement ending with that where under the influence of egoism and passion the external world of particulars is believed to be everything. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
As Kenneth spoke, I had something of an intellectual breakthrough, a glimpse of understanding about my own sexuality, and it all hinged on the word defiled. Wake Up, Sir!
The church defiled, the cloisters an uncleansed stable, dortoir and frater stripped of woodwork to feed fires, all provisions taken away, all those valuables we had no time or warning to remove, stolen. The Holy Thief
This necessity of alternation is called the defilement of apprehending the two truths as if they were different entities. Becoming Enlightened
It contaminated the buildings that were finished, defiled the churches, debasing their purity of form; this, with the gross license of sculpture and painting, was the great stupration of the cathedrals. The Cathedral
I live by the Bible's command to ‘cleanse ourselves of every defilement of flesh and spirit’.
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the orphan and the widow in their distress, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
Babylonish dispersion, was to go to a people and country equal, if not superior, to his own: but to go to the dispersion among the Greeks, was to go into unclean regions, where the very dust of the land defiled them: it was to go to an inferior race of Jews, and more impure in their blood; it was to go into nations most heathenized. From the Talmud and Hebraica
In some contexts, black represents darkness, evil, death, and defilement.
Besides, she intended to make use of it again, when she returned to her homeland to teach a lesson to the beasts that dared defile the Northlands.
Eustace smiled meekly, but answered somewhat venomously nevertheless — “I, at least, am certain that I speak the truth, when I call my patroness a virgin undefiled.” Westward Ho!
In setting up fire pockets, an advantageous front line configuration is chosen, in gaps between strongholds, approaches to commanding heights, choke points, defiles, valleys, gorges, etc.
But the warning being against lasciviousness, the contrast to "whoremongers and adulterers" in the parallel clause, requires the "in all" in this clause to refer to persons. the bed undefiled -- Translate, as Greek requires "undefiled" to be a predicate, not an epithet, "And let the bed be undefiled. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Of the girls who went "a-maying," Stubbs in his 1585 Anatomie of Abuses says, "scarcely a thirde parte of them returned home againe undefiled. Bel's Fire and Little Green Men
Tanks, AT guns, and AT rocket launchers are commonly used at strong-points by troops defending road junctions, exits from valleys, gorges, tunnels, defiles, and crossings over mountain rivers.
The soldiers deliberately defiled all the holy places.
Pollution traditionally involved an act of defilement and desecration; in previous times, to pollute was to profane, to stain, to sully, to corrupt.
The outward journey was quite uneventful as far as the Wadi Tamit, a steep defile leading down the escarpment on to the coastal plain.
The one who became defiled, _was defiled_, whether intentionally or not; GOD'S requirement was absolute, and where not fulfilled the vow was broken; the sin-offering had to be offered, and the service recommenced. Separation and Service or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII.
It is for them a symbol of purity, undefiled despite its muddy origin.
Any defilement disqualified them from contact with the holy things.
a fit field for stretching muscles and breathing deeply, a place where their ears may remain undefiled by the harsh words of men who strive to the utmost. CHAPTER 20
For it was granted in our illustration of light that the rays of the sun sent down to earth from heaven are not defiled by touching all the mud and filth and garbage.
The defile was narrow, with the sensation of narrowing further rather than opening out as it neared the lake. THE LAST RAVEN
One is left to wonder if there is any shred of piety remaining in the one institution God purposed to be a life-long union but is being defiled at will.
When I first read the poem, I immediately fell into misprision by reading ‘do daylight nights defile?’
Among these communities, economic interdependence was inescapable but the boundaries of defilement remained.
And then, you know, the reality is that the image never conforms to the reality and sooner or later, the image is going to be defiled and everybody is going to be enraged.
That is true; I John 3:4 says that sin is the transgression of the law, and it is transgressing God's Law that defiles us.
By his son, Theodorus Van Wyck, Esq., of Fishkill Hook, who remembers to have been shown, within the last forty years, by an individual then living, the bones of a "skinner," or cowboy, still lying unburied in a defile of the mountains. The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes
Israel -- a temporary exclusion, in order that they might be cleansed from the defilement of their native idolatries and gradually trained for admission into the society of God's people. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
In the eye of fancy, she perceived the gleam of arms through the duskiness of night, the glitter of spears and helmets, and the banners floating dimly on the twilight; while now and then the blast of a distant trumpet echoed along the defile, and the signal was answered by a momentary clash of arms. The Mysteries of Udolpho
And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. Jesus of Nazareth, A Biography, by John Mark
He saw in the eyes of his soldiers that they too felt this defilement of the morning, and the manner in which it overshadowed the remainder of each day until it waned unto comfortless darkness.
Osman can scarcely be called imperturbable, for he has his daily and hourly moods, and is of varying temper; but he carries himself always as though conscious of being an outcast, whom nothing can either elevate or defile. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
Your men defiled my sisters and slaughtered my brothers!
If Joshua remembered his history correctly, only one small jar of undefiled oil could be found for the Temple's menorah. ANGELS EVERYWHERE
Even as her parents wept over her defiled body, Medea stirred and came to life! SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
By two usurpers, sin – defiled — An evil path of woe and bane! antistrophe 1 The Choephori
We pull ourselves up through a stunted, moss - webbed forest to gain the lower Bigo Bog, a narrow defile between two walls of dark, wet granite.
It's a shame that such a beautiful area has been defiled by a rubbish dump.
Sapientum_ -- 'a fountain of abundant water, which no heats of summer can ever dry, which no flood can ever defile, which is as a water of life, to them that thirst for life, a stream of cleansing to them that would be pure, and a medicine of such healing virtue that by it, through the might of God and the intercession of His saints, the most grievous wounds are made whole. ' The House of Souls
whited," (Matthew 23: 27) once a year, after the rains before the passover, to warn passers-by of defilement. Smith's Bible Dictionary
This has not been the case recently, as mindless youths disrespect, desecrate and defile the church and its surrounding area.
The defile was narrow, with the sensation of narrowing further rather than opening out as it neared the lake. THE LAST RAVEN
In the time of David Thompson, the Salish ‘crossed the Mountains by a wide defile of easy passage, eastward of the Saleesh or Flathead Lake.’
They may be laid forward of larger minefields, on road verges, or in defiles where men and vehicles will pass.
If yogi cannot escape these defilements, he cannot go on to higher stages of insight.
And since my hubs believes there is nothing more beautiful and perfect than a woman’s body (even one sporting saggy A cups, a dimpled backside, skin streaked with stretch marks and let’s not forget the roll around the middle) getting a tattoo would defile this beauty. A Tat for a Tit @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy
Hold tight to the reality that the conservative wrong wing really is dangerous ... over-stuffed buffoons, winkers, creationists, nature-defilers and all. Paula Gordon: Ridiculosophists
When fighting in the depths of enemy defenses the pressing sub-units concentrate on routing the enemy units defending roads and directions, defiles, narrow roads, and settlements.
Not that any keep themselves here wholly free from defilement; but, as compared with hollow professors, the godly keep themselves unspotted from the world; and when they do contract it, they wash it away, so as to have their robes white in the blood of the Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And she called the undefiled daughters of the Hebrews, and they led her astray. Chinalyst - China blogs in English
Touch pitch, and you will be defiled.
Water metaphors give rise to a fluid cosmology of feelings in which senses of pollution, dirt and defilement are caught up with the need to protect social, moral and bodily boundaries.

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