What is "befoul"

Usage examples of "befoul".

Something was surging in my innards, and from the taste leaping into my mouth--even befouled as it was--it was some sort of mutton.

Iterate, Iterate, iterate, harp on the trite: Our preacher to win is the supple in stiff: Yet always in measure, with bearing polite: The manner of one that would expiate His share in grandmotherly Laws, Which do the dark thing to destroy, Under aspect of water so guilelessly white For the general use, by the devils befouled.

Before him sat a fouler traitor then he had dreamed could befoul his city.

Hours later, after he had rested in the palace, changed his bloody, befouled clothing, and washed his faceblood having sprung from his ears, nose, and even the corners of his eyes as he had lain on the ground outside the wallshe and Captain Otei returned to the top of the rear wall, then slowly walked the circuit of the walls before descending to tour the casemates and praise the tired gunners, all gunpowder-black now, no matter their original colors.

Something was surging in my innards, and from the taste leaping into my mouth--even befouled as it was--it was some sort of mutton.

Huge factories befouled the air with thick, black, poisonous gases, while unbiodegradable refuse was dumped into landfills and into the seas.

Thus she might have been expected to befoul her room, yet never could anyone, whether man or beast, have shown more nicety in such matters.

Upon seeing the Lady Chayla, the newcomers scorned those who had taken her, and rode away south to where the High Warlord befouls the sands outside Stronghold.

But the evidences of unhallowed atrocity which lay athwart the path of the squadron had more than a few men frantically unlocking visors and fighting down beavers that the interiors of their helms might not be befouled with the spewed contents of their stomachs.

He held aloft the golden knife one last time, and to his warriors called out that the Azhrei had so befouled the woman with his evil that it wrapped her like a shroud.

But, too jacked on his throbbing palang to enter the grace of a profound descent, he spent fitful hours drifting in an imaginary dugout on the current of his breath into the twilight country at the borders of consciousness, ending eventually amid a haunted grove of ironwood trees festooned with hundreds of dismembered arms and legs dangling like gaudy ornaments in all the colors of corruption from frazzled ropes of human hair, this grotesque mobile swinging silently in the soupy green light of the forest, blood dropping in a scattered singsong rhythm upon the outstretched leaves, the tumbled logs, the swaying ferns, the befouled beds of sodden moss.

Finally they uncoiled, rose to their feet, befouled the yard in a most lavish manner, and skulked away.

I order its wells befouled so that no man, woman, or child may think to take shelter in the ruins.

The soldiers passed in front of the egg stand, and Rani could at last make out the words on the befouled banner: DEATH TO ALL TRAITORS.

He yelled out once, then lay there on his back moaning, eyes smashed shut under his befouled arms.