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  • Also see Natalie Robins, “The Defiling of American Writers,” The Nation, October 10, 1987, 367.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • Also see Natalie Robins, “The Defiling of American Writers,” The Nation, October 10, 1987, 367.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • Defiling the rights of its citizens and ignoring international law are minor matters by comparison and easily ignored as Canada sinks into the same moral swamp as America.

    Reviewing Linda McQuaig's Holding the Bully's Coat 2007

  • Also see Natalie Robins, “The Defiling of American Writers,” The Nation, October 10, 1987, 367.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • Defiling the rights of its citizens and ignoring international law are minor matters by comparison and easily ignored as Canada sinks into the same moral swamp as America.

    Reviewing Linda McQuaig's Holding the Bully's Coat 2007

  • Defiling the trunks of the trees were broad maculations of crimson, and blood dripped like dew from their foliage.

    Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909

  • Defiling the trunks of the trees were broad maculations of crimson, and blood dripped like dew from their foliage.

    Can Such Things Be 1893

  • Ten years earlier the Judge had written to the Boston schoolmaster, begging him to "insinuate into the Scholars the Defiling and Provoking nature of such a Foolish Practice" as playing tricks on April first.

    Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • Defiling the trunks of the trees were broad maculations of crimson, and blood dripped like dew from their foliage.

    Can Such Things Be? Ambrose Bierce 1878

  • Defiling by the right, having cautiously thrown out a flanking regiment under Colonel Hall, of Maryland, the army pushed on by a circuitous course towards Rawdon.

    The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1835

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