The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our hands be not defiled: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren agreed to his words.

And if thou make an altar of stone unto me, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up a tool upon it, it shall be defiled.

He who touches pitch shall be defiled therewith.

Down the dusty high roads defiled long streams of heavily-laden mules, all heading to the west, for the gold fever had broken out in California.

Thou art poured out as water, grow thou not; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, and didst defile his couch.

When straight, down-swooping from the hills meanwhile / the Harpies flap their clanging wings, and tear / the food, and all with filthy touch defile, / and, mixt with screams, uprose a sickening stench and vile.