stain,

Of her unblemished lineaments, a whiteness with no stain,

Collected Poems William Butler 2002

For he who can afterwards rectify a defect, and does, as it were, wash away a stain,

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

To sigh the glass dim with their own breath's stain,

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

And the clouds, with their fringes of crimson stain,

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Till some serpent distill'd through her bosom the stain,

Poems (1828) Thomas Gent

That night the rain came down apace, and wash'd each gory stain,

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various

Which o'er the land hath spread its noisome stain,

The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision Dedicated to the House of Peers Anonymous

_Butchers_, whose hands are died with blood's foul stain,

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828 Various

Till some serpent distill'd through her bosom the stain,

Poetic Sketches Thomas Gent

No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain,

Quotations 1919