| Tony was reluctant to let anyone else touch the wallet, as if alien fingers might sully the purity of his dad's memory. |
| Don't even imagine spilling a fleck of gravy on it, and it seems a shame to sully that highly polished cutlery with messy old food. |
| This is a cautionary tale about what happens when you allow innuendo to sully your life. |
| By drawing nearer to the condemned man, let us learn to overcome our repugnance to see those wounds that sully our own humanity. |
| A thing so cheap, so tacky, so sordid that I scarcely dare sully these pages with an account of it. |
| Because Gauguin simplified and archaized the figures, he did not sully the dignity of the four Arlesian women arrayed as if in ritual procession. |
