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If it were not for his visit at Rome, he says, he might fear that he was slandering the Popes in what he wrote about them.

From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)

Mrs. Carleton glanced at the patient old horse, whom the doctor was slandering, with a slightly alarmed manner.

From After a Shadow and Other Stories by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

It was Lee who first warned Washington that Jefferson was slandering him in secret, and who kept him closely informed as to the political manuvres in Virginia.

From The True George Washington [10th Ed.] by Ford, Paul Leicester

By the suppression of truth she was slandering her. 

From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Conrad, Joseph

It seemed she thought I was slandering the man after slipping into his shoes.

From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)