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  • June 17, 2009 at 1:34 pm if its tomato-baysd stayns, wut wurks for me iz aftur washing, dont put in teh dryer, let teh clofs ayr-dry in teh sun, make shur teh stayned part gets full sunliet, teh sunlite will bleech owt teh tmoato stayn.

    Yay! I’m tall enough to see what they… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • We catched him and kleens his feets an teh karpit, teh floar, teh furnichoor, teh ruggs, but teh dye in teh payns stayned his feets.

    I haz no idea - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • The code began with a noble paragraph: “no mans life shall be taken away,” or his “honour or good name … stayned, or his person arrested, or his goods taken, except by the vertue or equity of some expresse law of the Country, or in defect of a law in any particular case by the word of God.”

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • The code began with a noble paragraph: “no mans life shall be taken away,” or his “honour or good name … stayned, or his person arrested, or his goods taken, except by the vertue or equity of some expresse law of the Country, or in defect of a law in any particular case by the word of God.”

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • The code began with a noble paragraph: “no mans life shall be taken away,” or his “honour or good name … stayned, or his person arrested, or his goods taken, except by the vertue or equity of some expresse law of the Country, or in defect of a law in any particular case by the word of God.”

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Reputation be either altogether inviolable, or at the least not stayned with common Tinctures.

    George Washington's Rules of Civility Conway, M D 1890

  • The chaste Ladie was so wrapt of wittes for the straungenes of the case, and for the griefe whiche she concerned, to see the vnshamefast hardinesse of the varlette, as she could not tell how to make him aunswere: but in the ende breaking silence, and fetching a great sighe from the bottome of her harte, her face stayned with a freshe Vermilion rudde, which beautified her colour, by reason of disdaine conceiued against this impudent Orator, she aunswered him verie seuerely.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • Helpe me then to traine this corps out of my father’s house, wherein I was first defloured, then will I tell thee what thou shalt doe: for like as mine honestie is stayned and published abrode, euen so will I the reuenge to be manifeste, crauing that his bodie may be exponed to the viewe of all men.”

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • "_Item_, j stayned cloth of the ymage of St. Nicholas.

    The Customs of Old England

  • 2.62.8: If pale colour, which loue alas hath stayned:

    "Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other" 1557

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