soiling

• “Even though the so-called soiling was infinitesimal, I could not recover from the shock of it, the feeling that what was happening to my body was a perversion.”

  Simon & Schuster: a better woman

• “The "soiling" paint consists of very thin glue, called size, mixed with lampblack; on an emergency a raw potato may be cut in half, and the work to be soiled may be rubbed over with the cut surface of the potato.”

  On Laboratory Arts

• “To his credit, however, it may be said, that, in the same book, he urged the system of "soiling" cattle, -- a system which even now needs its earnest expounders, and which would give full warrant for their loudest exhortation.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864

• “He could preach three times a day without "soiling" his collar.”

  Unwritten History

• “soiling" with fireclay or using an oxidising flame; but the erratic behaviour of spelter in this respect is the greatest drawback to its use in apparatus construction.”

  On Laboratory Arts

• “When the unwashed get wind of this, they'll start making a lot of noise again at their tea parties (protest rallies) and screaming at the town halls (thanks for soiling that American tradition.)”

  CNN Poll of Polls: Obama approval holding steady

• “We now know the Bush II Administration were fairly soiling themselves with fear.”

  Think Progress » Powell Dismisses Cheney’s Claim That Obama Made U.S. Less Safe: ‘I Don’t Think That’s Borne Out By The Facts’

• “The criticism is so ridiculous short of saying “President Obama should be personally strip searching anyone boarding a plane” and even the lardest, imbOcile trolls hiding behind a broom are soiling themselves because the muslins are coming to get them.”

  Think Progress » GOP Sen. Dick Lugar rebukes Cheney criticism of Obama as ‘unfair.’

• “Think you can stop sobbing and soiling yourself in terror long enough to make up a vaguely convincing reason why no snow at the Winter Olympics is double-super-secret proof that global warming is a hoax?”

  Think Progress » After warmest January in history, Vancouver airlifts in snow for Winter Olympics.

• “Can you imagine the soiling of the Depends that would have occurred if a Dem/librul had ever dared show up at Bush rally packing?”

  Think Progress » Stupak receives death threats after voting for health reform.

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