| 1. | Durst brand my courage, and defame my migh. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 2. | revenged I shall defame him ov'r all there I spea. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 3. | That the world, and men for whom His Son die, will not be given over to monsters, whose very existence would defame Him. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 4. | Oh, ye sentimental dissemblers, ye covetous ones Ye lack innocence in your desire and now do ye defame desiring on that accoun. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 5. | escape To be defamed falsely, if that he Hath trespass'd to my brethren or to me. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 6. | But when one man kills, wounds, beats, or defames another, though he to whom the injury is done suffers, he who does it receives no benefit. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |