Mr. Endecott was also left out, and called into question about the defacing the cross in the ensign; and a committee was chosen, viz.
Letter from the Council of State to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City, for defacing statues of James I and Charles I.
Letter from the Council of State to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City for defacing statues of James I and Charles I.
He desires to thwart the divine plan for man’s redemption, to cast dishonor upon God, by defacing and defiling His handiwork; he would cause grief in heaven, and fill the earth with woe and desolation.
They desecrated its churches, turning Notre-Dame into a saltpetre factory, stealing the church bells to sell them, pulling down the steeples and towers, and defacing the monuments.
It was no casual act, this defacing of a son's well-loved features.
The chief is ordinarily superimposed over the tressure and over the bordure, partlydefacing them by the elimination of the upper {134} part thereof.
Now I wish you to tell me, dear Punch, supposing he is taken up, can they send him to prison, and cut his hair off, and make him eat gruel for defacing the coin?
It remained for France and French influence to accomplish what Rome had vainly striven to achieve, and it is to be deplored that France should have succeeded in the defacing task.
For this reason the lovely cloisters, despite the defacing stamp of restoration and the preposterous glare of white plaster, win you to fervour and lure you to reverie.
In one day, contracts were entered into with masons for defacing images which for centuries, had been partly concealed under the dusty webs of generations of spiders.
One morning on the Salvatore heights would wash her clear of the webs defacing and entangling her.
There lay the huddled, ruined, mangled body; there grinned the already dry and blackened blood-clot defacing the desert's visage.
How often had I breathlessly watched those features quicken and grow mobile as thedefacing sun departed.
Wilfully altering or defacing marks or brands on such animals is larceny (Pen.
For branding or altering or defacing the brand on cattle with intent to steal, the penalty is imprisonment for not more than five years.
The old gateway and wall next Bridge Street were taken down, part of the green yard was taken in, and the old city library room was rebuilt over the gateway, thusdefacing all that part of the hall.
He had in his hands a volume of Wycherley's rhymes, and he wrote to say that this volume was so full of faults that he could not correct it without completely defacing the manuscript.
A printed warning is important to the effect that any cutting or defacing of library books or periodicals is a penal offense, and will be prosecuted according to law.
Books are frequently lettered so carelessly that the titles instead of aligning, or being in straight horizontal lines, run obliquely upward or downward, thus defacing the volume.
It is with much difficulty that tourists in the Yellowstone are prevented from defacing the formations around the geysers, which have been centuries in making.
The wheels were trundled out one by one from the rear end of the truck, and the men, six in all, fell to work with their tools, defacing the serial numbers and substituting others.
We haven't finished defacing the numbers," Molberg told him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "defacing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
