The thronging Greeks behold with wondering eyes His manly beauty and superior size; While some, ignobler, the great dead deface With wounds ungenerous, or with taunts disgrace.
This takes even less time than to deface the letter, and leaves it in such shape that corrections can be made quickly and neatly.
Do not deface the letter so that neat corrections will be impossible, unless the mistake is so serious as to necessitate rewriting the entire letter.
But sith there is no enemy in the field, and that but simple suspicion doth assayle me, why breake I not the same, and deface the entier remembraunce of the lightnesse of my brayne?
One stumble is enough to defacethe character of an honorable life.
To deface or soil the next sheet; -- said of the ink on a freshly printed sheet, when another sheet comes in contract with it before it has had time to dry.
A third is, custom of profane scoffing in holy matters; which doth, by little and little, deface the reverence of religion.
Another thing is that Hillsport was careful not to deface school property.
As winter's force cannot deface This branch his hue, So let no change of love disgrace Your friendship true; You were mine own, and so be still, So shall we live and love our fill.
Candied cherries may be treated in this way: first wash them to remove the sugar; let them dry, then pierce them with an artificial stem and dip them carefully so as not to deface the stem.
Wherever the United States has jurisdiction over cemeteries, it has made it a criminal offense punishable by fine or imprisonment to deface a tombstone.
When an owner of a lot has consented to the burial of a body therein, he can not afterward remove the body or deface the tombstone, and to do so would be a criminal offense.
But parentes offence or childrens trespas ought not to deface the vertuous dedes of their posterity.
Let not thys vyce of Femynine Flatterye spoyle the desertes of Noble Chyualrye, and vtterlydeface those merytes with greater ignomynie than the cause of that offence is worthye of disprayse.
It shall cost a man more dollars in the way of penalty and fine, and satisfaction of the outraged law, to deface in wantonness that senseless mass of metal, than to take the lives of twenty human creatures!
Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier.
Glendinning almost rejoiced when he saw that the last misery of life was over, and that the hoofs of the war-horses, amongst which he was compelled to leave her, could only injure and deface a senseless corpse.
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
Therefore one of the first things he did was an attempt to race and deface the most part of these holds.
All this is said onlie (as I thinke) to deface the memorie of Cantaber, who comming from the Brigants, or out of Biscaie, called the said towne after his owne and the name of the region from whence he came.
So now they feel what lordly Love can do, That proudly practise to deface his name; In vain they wrastle with so fierce a foe; Of little sparks arise a blazing flame.
Must they, that rear'd her stately temples up, Deface the sacred places of their gods?
What nature's bond or law's restraint avails, To conquer and deface me every hour.
He would deface all the coinage current in the world.
His aim in life was to do as his father had done, to 'deface the coinage', but on a much larger scale.
