1 From a sky of untarnished blue, the sun beamed down upon the city.

2 Comparatively, Northridge came through almost untarnished, and Los Angeles emerged shaken but hardly slammed.

3 In the other enclosure, the food was always untarnished.

4 Round 1900 his repute was still untarnished.

5 Because he and others loved moving, living, untarnished waters, we now have some left to cherish.

6 And untarnished by smoke.

7 It is difficult for heroes to remain untarnished, still less Soviet ones, but on the 50th anniversary of the first human travel in space, such a fate is reserved for Yuri Gagarin.

8 The untarnished beauty of nature has deepened our aesthetic sense and sublimated it into a conscious feeling for the environment.

9 The juxtaposition of pure and untarnished souls versus those souls ripped apart by murderous acts has been clearly set up with Harry's undamaged soul vs.

10 Only the healthiest citizens and those with an untarnished political record are allowed to live in Pyongyang, a "city of the elite".

11 But more important than these human aspects is the virtually untarnished natural history of the refuge.

12 The nation rising from the brine with its missile-launchers still untarnished.

13 Under Mr Yarrow's guiding hand, the reputation of the school was untarnished, these five long years.

14 Those wanting a 21st-century assessment will have to wait for a new generation, untarnished by forgotten feuds and loyalties, to read Marx with unblinkered eyes.

15 The amazing part of Shonnetta's journey is that not only was she able to break a destructive cycle of poverty, but that she helped others how to do the same with an open and untarnished heart.

16 The feeling seems to be that he is a force of nature, a noble primitive, raw,[] untarnished and smelling faintly of peat and bog water.

17 There is the hope that there is no suppressed resentment from the coach because of Messi's youth and his untarnished reputation.

18 Will the Deathly Hallows be the souls of the departed who, in their untarnished and undamaged state, can assist with the destruction of Horcruxes?

19 They were spartan, butincluded a pitcher of cold water and a washbasin and a good, untarnished mirror.