The streets and the prisons were polluted with the massacre of the innocent. "Madame Roland, Makers of History" by John S. C. Abbott

Look ye- the abomination has gone so far that the tabernacle itself is being polluted. "Master Olof A Drama in Five Acts" by August Strindberg

At least, the image- breakers, had been actuated by an idea, and their hands were polluted neither with blood nor rapine. "Project Gutenberg History of The Netherlands, 1555-1623, Complete" by John Lothrop Motley