Thy blemished face shall matter not one jot; To mount thy throne she'll think a happy lot.
Look now upon this blemished face--here where the cruel sun may shew thee all my ugliness, every scar--behold!
Yolande, Yolande, this poor blemished face is nothing changed since then; such as I was, such I am!
Heaven, that saved him from death and delivered him from captivity, that saved my father, too, from shedding the blood of one who would not have blemished a hair of his head, that Heaven must guide me out of this labyrinth.
To offer a blemished thing to Him was simply to prove the absence of all true sense of what became Him, and of all real heart for Him.
Is there not much that answers to the offering of the lame and the sick, the blemished and the ill-favored?
They neglected their Temple dues, and impudently presented to their God polluted bread and blemished beasts which they would not have dared to offer to their Persian governor.
His researches in British annals, begun at the time when he was still in quest of a theme, convinced him that the whole story of Arthur was "obscured and blemished with fables.
His argument is sometimes destroyed or blemished by the fire that it kindles, his narrative overwhelmed in the tide of passions that it sways.
Your service of God will no more be mixed and blemished with imperfections.
The Spartans were warned by an oracle against a lame king, as the Mackenzies were warned by the Brahan seer against a set of physically blemished lairds.
There was the same blemished appearance as before, and the crack in the vase was now plainly visible.
For the most apt and elegant Word in the whole Language was rejected, like a Diamond with a Flaw in it, if it appearedblemished with a wrong Letter.
See his Landscape at Sunset, and the Bathers (les Baigneuses), an agreeable scene somewhat blemished by careless drawing.
Jehovah could not have a blemishedpriest at His altar, or a blemished sacrifice thereon.
This unhandsome act blemished his gift so much that he seemed to reap hatred for it instead of thanks.
Halfdan rejoined that she brought against him two faults: one that his blood was not illustrious enough; another, that he was blemished with a cracked lip whose scar had never healed.
He saw the footsteps of a man printed deep on the snow; for the rime was blemished by the steps, and betrayed the robber's progress.
Their intense dislike of what is ugly and misshapen is the reason why they so much practise "the legerdemain of changelings," stealing away finished, handsome babies, and leaving blemished and defective ones in their stead.
Dora’s selfishness was marring her offering, as Agnes’s pride had blemished hers.
The Israelites were expressly forbidden to offer any creature in which there was a blemish or fault, and our offerings are certainly blemished and spoilt if we mix with them jealousy and pride.
Here, however, the circumstance is noteworthy that a plate that has been blemished by rubbing can be made to do the reverse, namely, to take color, by means of light grinding with water.
The Expulsion of King Bres* Nuada of the Silver Hand should now have been ruler of the Danaans, but his mutilation forbade it, for no blemished man might be a king in Ireland.
Wipe every apple dry with a cloth, and see that no blemished ones are left among them.
Take good ripe free-stone peaches, pare them, and cut them into small pieces, seeing that none are blemished in the least.
