Recognising the value to the bank of a
spotless reputation for its officers, the President drew his check for the amount of the shortage and the Cashier was restored to favour.
She had never entered its doors; from the outside she had sometimes caught glimpses of
spotless damask and shining crystal, and soft-stepping waiters serving people of fashion.
Smooth,
spotless, unbroken, the shallow snow lay everywhere.
Yes; and many is the time, when, after the severest uninterrupted labors, which know no night; continuing straight through for ninety-six hours; when from the boat, where they have swelled their wrists with all day rowing on the Line, --they only step to the deck to carry vast chains, and heave the heavy windlass, and cut and slash, yea, and in their very sweatings to be smoked and burned anew by the combined fires of the equatorial sun and the equatorial try-works; when, on the heel of all this, they have finally bestirred themselves to cleanse the ship, and make a
spotless dairy room of it; many is the time the poor fellows, just buttoning the necks of their clean frocks, are startled by the cry of There she blows!
"I see a band of spirits bright, That taste the glories there; They all are robed in
spotless white, And conquering palms they bear."
Something like a reading-desk was in front of this rostrum; and a small mahogany table from the mansion-house, covered with a
spotless damask cloth, stood a little on one side, by the way of an altar.
He must keep his honor
spotless. Those laws were his chart; his course was marked out on it; if he swerved from it by so much as half a point of the compass, it meant shipwreck to his honor; that is to say, degradation from his rank as a gentleman.
He had exchanged his shirt of mail for an under tunic of dark purple silk, garnished with furs, over which flowed his long robe of
spotless white, in ample folds.
But do not despair; you have life before you, my dear Albert, for you are yet scarcely twenty-two years old; and as a pure heart like yours wants a
spotless name, take my father's -- it was Herrera.
An area of about half a mile square presents a level surface of white clay or fuller's earth, perfectly
spotless, resembling a great slab of Parian marble, or a sheet of dazzling snow.
Indirectly, by means of tact and a
spotless name, a lady could accomplish much.
And yet, dearest," he quickly added, observing now the remark had cut her, "I know you to be the most honest,
spotless creature that ever lived.