Word: uncleane
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...takes another lover to shade the fruit of her sin. The ghost of old Caukler's incestuous sister?returning through the trances of a fat psychic aunt, Stella, and the gibbering of an idiot aunt, "poor Jinny" ?torments Tamar, tells her a curse is in her blood, inescapable, unclean. Tamar, fearless and fire-souled, refines her sin, lays the ghost by seducing her father. All are consumed?sin, protagonists, accessories?when the idiot crone Jinny, childishly embracing her candle for a star, turns the old house into a holocaust...
...until the blood had thoroughly drained from its lax veins. The ritual has never changed. Meat that is not fit for a sacrifice is, to the orthodox, not fit to eat. If there is any blemish in the manner of the killing, the meat of that killing is treife, unclean; it taints whatever it touches, and it were better for a man to cut off his right hand than to eat of it. Certain beasts are of themselves unclean?the pig, the camel and the hare; all carnivorous beasts, all birds of prey, all creeping things. Others, when slaughtered according...
Corruption. "In 1913, the lobby was scourged from Washington; in 1921, like a flock of unclean birds hastening to the feast, it gathered from the four winds and descended upon the city. The Little Green House in K Street was set up for sinister purposes but partly disclosed. Its occupants and their friends soon proved that they lacked neither zeal nor appetite...
...flock of unclean birds...
...actors guilty of presenting 'an indecent and obscene representation,' sentenced each to $50 fine or 25 days in jail, on account of certain passages in Getting Gertie's Garter, farce-comedy written by me, played by them. Said the San Francisco Chronicle: 'The cry of "Unclean! Unclean!" was raised today...