It is to these men we look as the salt of the earth, who preserve us still from the corrupting, disintegrating influence of doubt.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
For days, for weeks, Caponsacchi's name had been ringing in her ears: in jealous explosions on her husband's part; in corrupting advice on the part of the waiting-woman who brought letters supposed to be sent to her by him; in declarations of love which her first glance at his face told her he could not have written.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Otherwise it might be shaken by the new proofs of the insidious, corrupting, anti-truthful nature and effects of the Roman Catholic belief.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond