Utiliser "tarnish" dans une phrase

1. encrusted in thick frames of tarnished gold,

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2. is something within yourself and is not tarnished or determined by what

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3. have been silver, but was now very tarnished and damaged

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4. He provided silver plates, tarnished with age, but undoubtedly silver

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5. neither tarnished nor afraid

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6. Jason had considered two parts of our history that were tarnished with the elements of imperialism

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7. Kosmo’s sartorial splendor was tarnished only by a trace of cigar smoke that broke through his heavy

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8. The purity the radical Left likes to claim has been badly tarnished by the e-mail scandal, but that will not slow them down

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9. Were not tarnished by the taste of blood

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10. door and has tarnished the reputation of the RCMP," said retired Staff-Sgt

11. door and has tarnished the reputation of the RCMP," said retired Staff-

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12. tarnished Conservatives, where they limped through the election in 1997

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13. The responsibility for the success or failure of the mission rested on silver eagles, but many quick and important decisions remained with slightly tarnished gold bars

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14. without being tarnished by thought

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15. reputations have been tarnished, some even to the point of them quitting the business,

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16. Jesus again points to human pride tarnished by sin as the cause of the

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17. was a small island girl with a tarnished image

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18. At the same time as he retrieved the boat, the fisherman shot his other hand into his tackle-bag and produced three travel-worn, tarnished plates

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19. The water was the color of tarnished silver

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20. His boots were of Kordavan leather, his hose and doublet of plain, dark silk, tarnished with the wear of the camps and the stains of armor rust

21. But far below, the floor shone like tarnished silver, and the gold thread sparkled undimmed

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22. Barnacled with age, bearded with kelp, mottled iridescent with cracked, tarnished scales, shimmering, bright, soulful-eyed, glorious, monstrous and free, a fish – oh such a fish! - awoke

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23. In all of his life he could never have been as frightened as at that moment, but he had a dignity and presence that spared him from humil-iation and a genuine elegance that was defeated only by tarnished hands and nails that had been shattered by rough work

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24. The brass buttons of the jacket were tarnished with age and the folds looked as if they had been undisturbed for a very long time

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25. There was no doubt it was a shell that had been discharged after firing a hunting rifle and left to deteriorate in the elements without a second thought; furthermore, the uncorroded and shiny appearance of the casing indicated that it must have been left here fairly recently, within the last few days, or the metal would have become dull and tarnished as a result of the weather and the salty sea air

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26. The hair was slightly grey but mostly concealed beneath the tattered, once-dainty grey cap, the kind generally worn by sea captains, which adequately matched the equally tattered grey wool suit adorned with dull, tarnished brass buttons though several were missing

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27. There was a family vault in a small clearing at the end of the path ahead of him, the marble dark and chipped in various places and the heavy brass ornamentation tarnished black that suggested it dated back several generations

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28. had been slightly tarnished

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29. His tarnished Saxon assistant remained without, only

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30. of those baneful tarnished and the fair!

31. and some thirty of the tarnished raging villains they slew

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32. By the most putrid of tarnished craft

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33. Two more stinging defeats inflicted on Army units in Korea, first on July 5th in Osan, then in Chonan just yesterday, along with a series of blunt articles about the shocking lack of preparation of the American Army, had deeply tarnished the image of the Pentagon in the eyes of the public, which was now asking for heads to roll

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34. filth and tarnished blood of the nether-mortal inferior,

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35. It was old, tarnished and dented

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36. tarnished brass key in Jed’s waiting hand

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37. The paint was tarnished, cracked and dull, yet it was the imperfections which relayed its deep history

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38. Recalling the incident in which the homicide department’s reputation had been tarnished by several police mistakes in a high-profile murder investigation involving a city councilman’s wife, Graisco sighed and replied, “I know, but it still doesn’t make it any easier to accept

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39. After all it was Japan who had tarnished American honour at Pearl Harbour, not Germany

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40. fighting, was too fearful and tarnished to press the issue of bringing the Khmer Rouge leaders to justice

41. “Spare me the monologue,” Millie snapped as the car came to a halt in front of a tarnished, brick and iron office building

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42. find homes for all of those poor girls who the state can no longer care for because no one wants to adopt an older slave, or one that has been cut, tarnished, or otherwise damaged

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43. have his reputation tarnished because you’re too prideful to seek out legal representation

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44. thesis, someone didn’t like you, maybe because of that stunt with the moons, or someone was trying to prevent Spock’s reputation from being tarnished by the publication of this paper,” McCoy said

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45. Inside, his desk was already tarnished with token legislation requiring his attention, and he hesitantly took his seat

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46. tarnished before your eyes

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47. The weight that had tarnished his life had been what saved him from a painful death

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48. Credibility of the movement has been tarnished by the inability of its members to resolve the long war between Iran and Iraq, the Vietnamese invation of Cambodia and Africa problems

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49. a hero in a black hat, wearing a tarnished star?

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50. It had been tarnished bronze

51. small tarnished brass looking buckle

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52. Now, when I take my poets up with into the forest, and sit on one of those dusky pine-grown slopes where the light is subdued to a mysterious gray-green and the world is quieted into a listening silence, and far away below the roofs of Jena glisten in the sun, and the white butterflies, like white flowers come to life, flutter after each other across the blue curtain of heat that hangs beyond the trees, now when I open them and begin to read the noble, familiar words, will not those other words, those anecdotes, those personal descriptions, those suggestions, those button holing, leer at me between the lines? Shall I, straining my ears after the music, not be shown now for ever only the instrument, and how pitifully the ivory has come off the keys? Shall I, hungering after my spiritual food, not have pushed upon my notice, so that I am forced to look, the saucepan, tarnished and not quite clean, in which it was cooked? Please don't tell me you can't understand

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53. I sprang the tarnished gold clasp and raised the lid, then thumbed hurriedly through my misplaced daily diary of life, all the pages written before I had sailed onboard this clippership

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54. What would it be like, taking up her filialities again, and all of them henceforth so terribly tarnished? She would be a returning prodigal for whom no calf was killed, but who instead of the succulences of a more liberal age would be offered an awful opportunity of explaining her conduct to a father who would interrupt her the instant she began and do the explaining himself

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55. The combination of the two tarnished any feeble chance he had of being remotely attractive to a young girl

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56. I’m sure in its heyday this engine would have been slick, polished steel; but now it was tarnished and dirty

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57. This led to the claims that Hong Kong’s reputation as a world financial centre, carefully built up over the years and repeatedly vaunted, had been seriously tarnished

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58. “Perhaps as a French national you would be better placed than many others here,” he began “The history of your people has been tarnished sufficiently for you to have learned over generations

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59. There can be no doubt that the reputation and credibility of the British media, so highly respected for generations around world, has been badly tarnished

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60. We could not afford to have our reputation tarnished by your mother's foolishness

61. The lovely wood and metal bed frame tarnished with abandonment

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62. “No, but …if he thought he would be tarnished

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63. I felt good, I had something to prove, and as much as my enjoyment of the season had been tarnished, I still wanted to play as long as I could

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64. the one nature that of the meek sufferer is tarnished by

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65. Columbus was eventually acquitted, but his reputation had been tarnished

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66. Round and slightly tarnished, the charm was etched with a medieval-looking crest

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67. At the end of a short corridor rose some knotted stairs, trodden and tarnished by the

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68. However, it only went to show how impossibly far she was away from my own tarnished past that stood out more starkly with each passing moment I was with her

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69. It was pretty tarnished when I picked it up

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70. The old cult was tarnished so they couldn’t use the same name but they managed to keep the name only with the letters in a different order

71. Despite many legislative achievements, his career was tarnished by a propensity for drink and women

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72. Here a plaque of the Green Man sees all, there an ancient sword shines above a war-battered, tarnished shield

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73. Already had his fair fame been tarnished by one horrid scene, and in circumstances fearfully resembling those under which he now found himself

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74. Some of these things had done duty three Christmases ago and although they were in some instances slightly tarnished most of them were as good as new

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75. The chandeliers in the drawing-room and the dining-room were of massive brass, but they were all blackened and tarnished

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76. There were none there, and she took from her pocket a yellow set of ivory tablets, mounted in tarnished gold, and wrote upon them with a pencil in a case of tarnished gold that hung from her neck

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77. It is beautifully ugly and tarnished in just the right way

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78. Of course not—they were worried only about their tarnished image

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79. It was reported in Sulaco that up there "at the mountain" Don Pepe walked about precipitous paths, girt with a great sword and in a shabby uniform with tarnished bullion epaulettes of a senior major

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80. Dirt and rust tarnished the lustre of his short beard

81. battered scabbard smartly slapping his high boots, his tarnished spurs dully gleaming— He stood with military straightness in his old uniform, his pistol in its worn holster, his Major Ashley Wilkes, C

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82. It might have been the first song in the stack for King of America, but then my notebooks of that time were filled with these tarnished, exhausted views of love

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83. Then they all rode home in one of the largest wagons, in the company of a broad tarnished moon that had risen from the ground to the eastwards, its face resembling the outworn gold-leaf halo of some worm-eaten Tuscan saint

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84. She took from the drawer a large purse of red velvet with gold tassels, edged with a tarnished fringe of gold wire,—a relic inherited from her grandmother

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85. It was Thorin, but you could only have told it by his golden chain, and by the colour of his now dirty and tattered sky-blue hood with its tarnished silver tassel

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86. They were a high-class firm, and they thought their reputation might be tarnished if word got out that they were dealing in bankrupt paper

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87. I knocked, Conklin called out, and then I rapped on the door with the tarnished brass knocker

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88. Revelations about his private life have tarnished the image, but more serious is the accusation that he didn’t actually achieve much for America’s poor or blacks or even for America’s allies abroad

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89. The UN’s image has been so tarnished by failure and scandal in recent years that recalling the enormous optimism it evoked when it was launched is difficult

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90. "Got it at last!" said Huck, ploughing among the tarnished coins with his hand

91. The tomb in the daytime, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough, but now, some days afterwards, when the flowers hung lank and dead, their whites turning to rust and their greens to browns, when the spider and the beetle had resumed their accustomed dominance, when the time-discoloured stone, and dust-encrusted mortar, and rusty, dank iron, and tarnished brass, and clouded silver-plating gave back the feeble glimmer of a candle, the effect was more miserable and sordid than could have been imagined

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92. Aunt Rose's hand lay on the table like cutlery, rare and fine and old; tarnished

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