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Example sentences for "blemishes"

Lexicographically close words:
bleeze; bleiben; bleibt; blemish; blemished; blemishless; blench; blenched; blend; blende
  1. Certain individuals may develop this class of blemishes without being subject to any unusual conditions.

  2. Unsoundnesses interfere with the use of the part or the use of the animal for a certain work; blemishes do not.

  3. He even pointed out blemishes in the cuisine or cellar departments of some of the more august London restaurants, a species of Higher Criticism which was listened to by Vanessa in awe- stricken admiration.

  4. There is the great lesson, Tom; you grow lenient to everything save the reprobation of wrong, and that you set down for rank hypocrisy, and cry out against as the blackest of all the blemishes of humanity.

  5. It brought many lamentable blemishes to light; but it entitles him to be considered pure from every blemish which has not been brought to light.

  6. Blemishes and imperfections there are in the noble translation which we have been called upon to revise; blemishes and imperfections will assuredly be found in our own revision.

  7. Their blemishes had in this resurrection become their greatest beauty.

  8. Their disfiguring splinters were now covered and kissed, shrouded and decorated; all blemishes were obliterated in the universal whiteness.

  9. His want of wisdom was shown (we may assume) by the grave blemishes and defects in his Endymion, the wilful faults and perverse excesses and extravagances which mark its composition, and wantonly invited attack.

  10. It cannot be denied that some of the blemishes which it points out in Endymion are real blemishes, and very serious ones.

  11. Both in the 'Revolt of Islam' and 'Tarquin and Lucrece,' blemishes resembling his own constantly occur.

  12. The faults of his poems were perceptible enough, yet even these were the blemishes of latent strength, and the book was every where welcomed with a hope.

  13. With a fine pencil brush and Indian ink, go over the prints and carefully touch up all the white spots and other blemishes that may be found on the surface, so that they harmonize in color with the surrounding [p080] parts.

  14. It should be of a fine texture, showing clearly the most delicate lines and markings, [p235] evenly coated and free from spots or blemishes of any sort.

  15. These are not faults for which it could ever be worth while to revise a Prayer Book, but they are blemishes of which the revisers of a Prayer Book ought to take note.

  16. They are blemishes upon the face of its literary perfectness.

  17. A document much more to the point than Baxter's Liturgy was the formal catalogue of faults and blemishes alleged against the Prayer Book, which the Puritan members of the conference in due time brought in.

  18. One who is actuated by this Spirit is almost under an Incapacity of discerning either real Blemishes or Beauties.

  19. The Reliefs of the Envious Man are those little Blemishes and Imperfections, that discover themselves in an Illustrious Character.

  20. These blemishes of feeling and education did not prevent Ralegh from behaving as a polished English gentleman to a polished Spanish hidalgo.

  21. An exception is Mr. Spedding, who could not well let judgment pass against his idol without a word of defence for one of the worst blemishes in a pitiful official career.

  22. In voices of extremely nasal or throaty sound these blemishes can, of course, be detected by the ordinary hearer.

  23. In addition to their blemishes as musical tones, the faulty notes of the voice also convey to the critical listener an idea of the state of the singer's throat in producing them.

  24. But these petty blemishes are abundantly redeemed by the rest of the fable, which is beautiful in choice of thoughts and language, and may be classed with the best in the collection.

  25. But such blemishes are lost in the majestic simplicity, the holy calm, that ennoble many of these short compositions.

  26. One of the petty blemishes which, though lost in the splendour of Lord Bacon’s excellencies, it is not unfair to mention, is connected with the peculiar characteristics of his mind; he is sometimes too metaphorical and witty.

  27. Besides the blemishes of construction in some of his plots, which are pardonable but still blemishes, there are too many in his style.

  28. It is possible that we might hesitate to own this superiority; but several blemishes have been removed, and the conduct is perhaps more noble, or at least more fitted to the French stage.

  29. He thought a while, and I heard him say: 'The blemishes do not come from within the body, nor were they upon it at birth, but have been inflicted by the violence of man and beast.

  30. We did not open this book with any wish to find blemishes in it.

  31. All great vices therefore, misfortunes, and notorious blemishes of mind or body, are improper subjects of raillery.

  32. All the minor blemishes which you and I, not being made in the stamp of bluff old Oliver, dislike to see perpetuated in our counterfeit presentments, must be carefully stippled out.

  33. But these are the minor blemishes of a poem otherwise conspicuous for power and charm.

  34. He has been kind enough to collaborate with me from the beginning, and to his minute lexicographical knowledge I am deeply indebted for discovering not a few blemishes which would have been "nuts to the critic.

  35. If I be a judge, the reverse is the case: the brilliant and beautiful version thus traduced is almost entirely free from the blemishes and carelessness which disfigure Lane's, and thus it is far more faithful to the original.

  36. The more blemishes he can see in men, the more excellence he sees in man, and the more bitterly he laments the fate of each particular soul, the more reverence and love he has for the soul in its ideal essence.

  37. Grievous as such blemishes are, it is seen at a glance that they must be set down to nothing worse than tasteless assiduity.

  38. Had the blemishes been capable of being reckoned up, it might have been worth while to try to remedy some of them.

  39. Still it cannot be doubted that their studied avoidance of uniformity in the rendering of the same words, even when occurring in the same context, is one of the blemishes in their work.

  40. Whenever we can trace back a religion to its first beginnings, we find it free from many of the blemishes that offend us in its later phases.

  41. We shall learn that religions in their most ancient form, or in the minds of their authors, are generally free from many of the blemishes that attach to them in later times.

  42. Each candlestick has certain beauties in it, little touches which invite respect and regard, but each also contains blemishes detracting from the exact symmetry which was the character of the earlier types.

  43. But the Sheffield platers never added blemishes of their own to the silver they copied.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blemishes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.