unblotted

• “She wept silently, her mouth stretched open, her tears falling unblotted to the tabletop.”

  Simon & Schuster: DIAMOND RUBY

• “And for everyone who voted in 2004 for George W. Bush, the stain of their personal participation and guilt remains unblotted and indelible.”

  Mirror, mirror . . .

• “Now I realize it would have been wiser to leave the restroom unblotted, because a hand reaching into one's stall is surely a Craig-like signal.”

  Barbara Ehrenreich: Fear of Restrooms

• “It was a sight to behold Tim Linkinwater slowly bring out a massive ledger and day – book, and, after turning them over and over, and affectionately dusting their backs and sides, open the leaves here and there, and cast his eyes, half mournfully, half proudly, upon the fair and unblotted entries.”

  Nicholas Nickleby

• “We no longer suffer them to appeal at the prison gates to the charity and compassion of the passersby; but we still leave unblotted the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of succeeding ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness.”

  The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

• “Whose history, in the category of nations, is unblotted?”

  New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?

• “And he began to picture to himself the arrival of all the villagers from church, the sad gaze of the Parson, the bent brow of the Squire, the idle, ill-suppressed titter of all the boys, jealous of his unblotted character -- character of which the original whiteness could never, never be restored!”

  The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851

• “Primal, yes, and almost unblotted by such new things as men and sheep.”

  Died in the Wool

• “Switzerland in silver and star-grey, unblotted by people.”

  Living Alone

• “One of them rushed in with a still unblotted report.”

  The Ear in the Wall

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