| 1. | "The slur on my name and honor--that's all apart from myself.. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 2. | what A slur on my name A misfortune for life Oh, that's nonsense," he thought. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 3. | And their happiness in their love seemed to imply a disagreeable slur on those who would have liked to feel the same and could not--and they felt a prick of conscience. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | Their stiff wise men I call them wise, not stiff--thus did I learn to slur over words. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 5. | I pass over the sort of slur conveyed in this suggestion on the character of my beloved indeed, when you are far away, Janet, I'll try to forget it I shall notice only its wisdom which is such that I have made it my law of action. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 6. | But he regarded such a refusal as a slur on his father's memory, which he held sacred, and therefore would not hear of refusing and accepted the inheritance together with the obligation to pay the debts. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |