On his tomb, Clio with moving finger has carved one of his own sentences, nor all your tears shall blot a line of it.
The only protest came from the Pope, who turned Protestant and in all the Catholic churches in Rome ordered special services, to partially mitigate the blot upon the fair record of the "Holy City.
These things were not exaggerations, they were sober truths; and he held that the toleration of such a state of things was a discredit to humanity, and a foul blot upon the fame of civilised nations.
It may be described as a monstrous blot of barbarism hanging on the skirts of civilisation.
The Skipping Rope Lessons now at last are over, Books and slates are put away; Hymns attentively repeated, Copy without a blot completed, Now's the time for fun and play.
The great actor Macready was charmed with the poem, and young Browning haunted Macready's dressing-room at the theatre for years; but their friendship ceased in 1843 when A Blot in the 'Scutcheon was acted.
This world's no blot for us, Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good: To find its meaning is my meat and drink.
The only blot on the thing from his point of view was that it wasn't doing a bit of good to the old vocal cords, which were beginning to show signs of cracking under the strain.
It was the blot on the escutcheon of the Excelsior--the stain on its reputation--which was tormenting her.
Ponz a century ago wrote: "It is marble, an enormous affair in which it would have been better to have forever in the bowels of the hills of Carrara than to have brought it here to be a real blot in the Cathedral.
But perhaps we should not grumble, great a blot on an impressive landscape and down streets that have not altered since the spurred and belted centuries, as this grasping and mendicant race is.
There is but one blot on them, due to her husband and the terrible Torquemado, the introduction of the Inquisition into Castille.
Ere I that awful name record, That is spoken so lightly among men, Let me pause awhile and wash my pen; Pure from blemish and blot must it be When it writes that word of mystery!
That goodly folio standing yonder, Without a single blot or blunder, Would not bear away the palm from mine, If we should compare them line for line.
Such laws as these are cruel and oppressive; A blot on this fair town, and a disgrace To any Christian people.
So dark, so deep, so damming a blot rests not upon the escutcheon of any other nation upon earth.
Time or angel's tears can never blot out the damning stigma that rests upon the escutcheon of Great Britain for personal abuse and the wanton destruction of private property during the Revolutionary War.
Not a blot could be found upon the fair fame of his public or private character.
The burning of heretics stands as a most fearful moral blot upon the page of the church's history.
The burning of Servetus, in 1553, for his theological opinions, is a frightful blot upon the Reformation, and upon the man who sanctioned such an unchristian proceeding.
Focusing his attention with some reluctance upon this blot on the horizon, he discovered that the exploiter of rainbow waistcoats and satin ties was addressing him.
He merely stared at him as if he were a blot on the arrangement of the furniture, and said, 'Well?
For the moment I knew he repented him of his attempted wrong, though I could not know that a day of manly reparation would come to blot out his sin against her.
Volney looked past the man with a wooden face that did not even recognize the fellow as a blot on the landscape.
It's so big he's ready to dope out a hundred thousand dollars to the man who can blot out the fellers trading there, and grab their trade.
I write with burning tears, but they cannot blot out the past, nor recall a single wasted hour.
I have often been advised--it is easy enough to say the words--"Make up your mind to blot his name from your memory.
One devout person placed on the corners eighteen images of the Conception of our Lady, with a legend reading, "Without blot of original sin.
Once, through the darkness, he heard voices, and caught a glimpse of a light dancing about; but the next moment the water was thundering in his ears, and its blackness seemed to blot out all vision.
For it was an intensely dark night: the moon would not rise for some hours, and, to make it more obscure, there was a heavy bank of clouds to blot out the stars.
Nothing can ever blot from my memory what you have suffered in defence of your writings.
Could you imagine it possible for a mere human to blot you from my heart?
I can even, it may be, blot out and forget my recollections up to my immediate past; but at least I keep the consciousness of my present reduced to its extremest poverty, that is to say, of the actual state of my body.
Let me go away unquestioned; and blot my image from your heart for ever when I am gone.
The belief that Jesus was divine is a blot on the intelligence of this century.
Nor is he merely a blot in his own composition; his presence secretly infects and denaturalises everything in it.
It will be his finitude, his inordinate claims, his enormous effrontery in having any will or any preference in particular, that will seem to him the source of all evil and the single blot on the infinite lucidity of things.
Then the thing began clambering up the side of the observatory, and he saw its black outline gradually blot out the skylight.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
