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    1. remove the tarnish on the metal setting, the stone itself had


    2. Where has it been written that a Great Nation must commend itself to the parochial interests or jealousies of ancient traditions that have lost their comparable standing or concede its leadership position among the Community of Nations, rather than conforming to its (own) enlightened self-interests? Such designs must inevitably tarnish that nation‘s highest historical achievements that it should (otherwise) enjoy and (rightly) pass along to posterity


    3. There are (special) moments in our lives that many of us have experienced at one time or another that should be properly filed away for safe keeping and never revisited again lest we tarnish the exceptionable qualities that made those moments (in retrospect) special to begin with


    4. Even those who simply went through the motions, however, did so in a manner that was unlikely to tarnish either their own good name or the dignity of their sport


    5. If any of them happens to succumb, it will tarnish your


    6. A decision was taken to discard all bones with tarnish marks on them, into the holes which belong to the crematorium


    7. She would never want to tarnish that glimmer Dad held when he looked at her


    8. Liz shining through the tarnish of his life


    9. It was no wonder her father had not wanted Martha to marry into a family that could bring scandal and tarnish the Sharpe name


    10. I pray that you allow God to remove the tarnish of your lower nature so that you can truly shine brightly with the reflection of the character of Christ

    11. He had a feeling that if this moment was done out of wedlock, it would somehow tarnish the beauty and wonder of their first time together


    12. It has obliged her to hide all her beauties and all that could fascinate the male heart and tarnish it with forbidden lusts, so that she must be serious in her choice of words and strict and earnest in her speech, without speaking softly, or using gentle phrases, or turning aside from speaking about anything other than essential subjects


    13. Ye must clear yer minds of all that will tarnish this ritual


    14. And you shouldn't tarnish Ananda Ali's reputation


    15. But let’s not tarnish every single policeman and woman – or journalist for that matter – with the same accusations


    16. "All this to tarnish the Jedi's reputation?" asked Malorum


    17. The effectiveness of force the mass produce will tarnish as the radius that separates the material from


    18. effectiveness of force the mass produce will tarnish as the radius that separates the material from each


    19. What happens if you try to tarnish a polished idol of the masses?


    20. I’m hoping that by adding the gold and some other elements that the copper will keep its rich color and not tarnish

    21. He was probably only paying Miles Hart the money to save his ‘name’ any further tarnish


    22. What money would be drawn out of Tellson's henceforth, and what would lie there, lost and forgotten; what plate and jewels would tarnish in Tellson's hiding-places, while the depositors rusted in prisons, and when they should have violently perished; how many accounts with Tellson's never to be balanced in this world, must be carried over into the next; no man could have said, that night, any more than Mr


    23. There was a great fire, and that was all the light in the huge apartment, whose floor had grown a uniform grey; and the once brilliant pewter dishes, which used to attract my gaze when I was a girl, partook of a similar obscurity, created by tarnish and dust


    24. Shockingly, Hinckley still pines for Jodie Foster, telling the New York Times in a bizarre letter, “My actions of March 30, 1981 have given special meaning to my life and no amount of imprisonment or hospitalization can tarnish my historical deed


    25. Edmond, my friend, do not compel me to tarnish that noble and pure image reflected incessantly on the mirror of my heart


    26. The tarnish of shame and guilt that enveloped her spread to him as well


    27. but the beauty of mithril did not tarnish or grow dim


    28. Honour’s like a Badge of Merit: worthless at Pawn, useless to warm the Bones, inedible, and sooner to tarnish than a silver Watch


    29. Everything in Matty’s life was going directly down the drain: dead parents, pregnant girlfriend who was saying the baby wasn’t his, and tarnish on his sterling reputation that might get him booted out of the big league


    30. Stood in the silver tarnish of a half-moon and glanced up to a sky riddled with stars

    31. There was a great fire, and that was all the light in the huge apartment, whose floor had grown a uniform grey; and the once brilliant pewter-dishes, which used to attract my gaze when I was a girl, partook of a similar obscurity, created by tarnish and dust


    32. The actions of a few can tarnish the image of the hard-working professionals whose complete focus is on improving their clients’ performance


    33. Still, this was a tarnish on IBM’s otherwise sterling report


    34. in which they described how the Internet was going to flatter, not tarnish, the check business


    1. encrusted in thick frames of tarnished gold,


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


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


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


    5. neither tarnished nor afraid


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


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


    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


    9. Were not tarnished by the taste of blood


    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-


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


    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


    14. without being tarnished by thought


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


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


    17. was a small island girl with a tarnished image


    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


    19. The water was the color of tarnished silver


    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


    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


    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


    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


    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


    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


    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


    28. had been slightly tarnished


    29. His tarnished Saxon assistant remained without, only


    30. of those baneful tarnished and the fair!

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


    32. By the most putrid of tarnished craft


    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


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


    35. It was old, tarnished and dented


    36. tarnished brass key in Jed’s waiting hand


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


    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


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


    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


    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


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


    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


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


    46. tarnished before your eyes


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


    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


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


    50. It had been tarnished bronze







































    1. He prefers to die that to be an object to what tarnishes his reputation or his honour


    2. So other politicians will see what happens when a public person tarnishes their sacred duty to be unselfish in a public office


    1. Unfortunately for her, I had a feeling that the finish on the trophy was tarnishing


    2. actually be harming your online image and tarnishing those vital relationships


    3. was bamboozled into tarnishing the image of a well-mannered


    4. Carla carefully lifted it from the box, using a clean hand towel to prevent oils from her hands tarnishing the gleaming metal


    5. thy slinking feline shall lay with the tarnishing mouse,


    6. All the tarnishing poisons


    7. victimized by the most tarnishing debauchery


    8. Wickland already knew that and agreed with the need to keep any unnecessary negative publicity from tarnishing the reputation of one of their civil servants


    9. ” he twirled the coin between his fingers, dazzled by the brilliance of the never tarnishing gold


    10. "I'm tarnishing His Excellency Raden Burhanuddin Ali's reputation? So what are you saying? Are you going to have me stoned to death?"

    11. future to develop enough gravity because the factor of what mass supposedly should have is tarnishing


    12. and tarnishing as the Universe expand


    13. If the dark matter did not develop enough contraction at this time, there is no chance in the future to develop enough gravity because the factor of what mass supposedly should have is tarnishing and tarnishing as the Universe expand


    14. At the maximum, he could have been removed from the White House, tarnishing and likely ending his career


    15. “Yes, if the rate of tarnishing doesn’t increase


    16. Setting strategic plans has the same effect: A CEO is very likely to do things to remain committed to meeting his or her stated plans because the consequences of not meeting them are that the stock goes down, thereby reducing the value of stock options or tarnishing the reputation and credibility of the management team


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    Synonymes pour "tarnish"

    tarnish defile maculate stain sully dull blot taint soil smear smudge dirty blemish defame slander embarrass blacken