"Contaminate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... my eyes that were seeking his, he turned his back on me and stepped up to a little table laden with books. He studied the titles for a while, then, turning suddenly, held a small volume towards me. His arm was out-stretched as if he feared to contaminate ...
— Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess • Henry W. Fischer
... principally English soldiers; and you will remark that the man in whose house the priest was discovered generally shared his fate. But it was useless. They were hung, they were tortured, they were transported to Barbadoes, and, finally, such numbers were captured, that it was feared they would contaminate the very slaves, and they were confined on the island of Innisboffin, off the coast of Connemara. Yet more priests came to take the place of those who were thus removed, and the "hunt" ...
— An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 • Mary Frances Cusack
... be afraid I should contaminate them. I wouldn't, Wilfrid, I wouldn't. I wouldn't ...
— The Immortal Moment - The Story of Kitty Tailleur • May Sinclair
... capital crimes, which is by putting them into a large iron caldron, and pounding them to pieces with wooden pestles, because none of their royal blood must be spilt on the ground, it being, by their religion, thought great impiety to contaminate the divine blood by mixing it with earth." When Kublai Khan defeated and took his uncle Nayan, who had rebelled against him, he caused Nayan to be put to death by being wrapt in a carpet and tossed to and fro till ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer
... foreigners! We Catholics know what foreigners are, how they work for evil in places high and low. One cannot take up a daily paper without seeing some exposure of their many-sided viciousness. They contaminate the land with their godless depravity. Nobody can count on immunity. The highest officials in the land, the very Ministers of the Crown, are subjected to their vile disguised attempts at bribery and corruption, no humble peasant girl, no ...
— South Wind • Norman Douglas
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