All this occurs upon an enormously swollen and inflamed skin, disfiguring every feature of the face and wellnigh obliterating every external distinction between the scalp, nose, eyes, and mouth.
It is thus seen to be the seat of multiple, slightly depressed, shining scars of a dead white color, which in the course of time lose somewhat of their disfiguring prominence, but which when typically distinct persist for a lifetime.
He brought out the best aspect of the older French literature, and cleared away some disfiguring encumbrances from it, but he imported nothing new.
As a historian Froissart is, as we should expect, not critical, and he carries the French habit of disfiguring proper names and ignoring geographical and other trifles to a most bewildering extent.
Late syphilis in the skin and bones, while horrible enough to look at, and disfiguring for life, is not the most serious syphilis, because we can put up with considerable loss of tissue and scarring in these quarters and still keep on living.
The eruption is not necessarily conspicuous, and may be entirely overlooked by the patient himself, or it may be so disfiguring as to attract attention.
In rubbing out, "eternal vigilance" and plenty of care and caution are factors of the utmost importance, if scratching and disfiguring the surface would be avoided.
As the hoarseness left his voice, and the disfiguring redness disappeared from his face, Percival distinguished signs of refinement and culture which he wondered at himself for not perceiving earlier.
Yet in a moment or two he felt himself grateful for those great disfiguring glasses from behind which his host was temporarily, at least, blind to all that passed.
Andrew Pelham, his old chum, sitting there with his huge, disfiguring glasses and bowed head, was surely the type of all that was pathetic.
She should avoid looking at, or thinking of ugly people, or those marked with disfiguring diseases.
She carries her dressing to the extreme limit of idiocy, disfiguring her body and ruining her health.
It is of chief interest to point out that even where no other factors are at work, disfiguring eruptions on the face are not infrequently caused by errors in this respect.
Then he turned to Keeko and his steady eyes regarded her seriously under the disfiguring mask.
Every disfiguring line of suffering had passed out of the beautiful, youthful face.
The better to mould him to the form he has chosen, he begins by disfiguring him in the arms of his mother, whom with his father and his family he scruples not to calumniate.
The disfiguring freckles which had been produced by the juice of the euphorbia naturally vanished from Michal's face after she had washed herself twice or thrice with the Aqua Regina.
From this Zurdoki's crafty intellect concluded that if the roses and lilies on Dame Kalondai's face were not of artificial growth, the disfiguring freckles must have been painted on designedly, and there must be some reason for it.
No disfiguring effect whatever is produced by these mountain railways; the trains have even ceased to emit smoke since they were worked by electricity.
The carriages on these are hauled up long, straight gashes in the mountain side, which have a hideous and disfiguring appearance.
I believe we cut Grass when we want hay, or soft turf to play on, but disfiguring a noble tree is not a necessary part of our work either for our profit or pleasure.
As she put aside her cloak, and disclosed to me the pallor of her face and the disfiguring red about her gentle eyes, telling of tears and sleeplessness, all my own trouble seemed to vanish in the contemplation of her affliction.
And how did you get thisdisfiguring blow, my dear Edward?
He was deadly pale, with every appearance of exhaustion, and a most disfiguring patch on his left brow, which he had tried in vain to hide with his hair.
With a swinging motion of her lithe young body she was gone; the room seemed strangely empty; the disfiguring marks upon her girlish face were already forgotten; and a sense of companionship within me turned somehow lonely and bereft.
Her face, I noted, beneath the disfiguring marks, was rosy, and the grey-green eyes were very bright.
The horsehair easy-chairs bore disfiguring antimacassars, the photographs which adorned the walls were grotesque but typical of village ideals, the carpet was threadbare, the closed door secured by a latch instead of the usual knob.
He wore huge, disfiguring spectacles, and he had the protuberant lips of a negro.
His mass of brown hair seemed more unkempt than usual, his hard face sterner than ever by reason of its disfiguring frown.
There were many women at that time, upon whom the time laid a dreadfully disfiguring hand; but, there was not one among them more to be dreaded than this ruthless woman, now taking her way along the streets.
Of the ancient and universal Methods of disfiguring the Person 19 V.
I have omitted the bracketed words, as a disfiguring gloss.
It belongs to the demonstrably legendary and disfiguring interpretations which shall be studied further on.
They were hurting him, sorely, sorely, dismembering and disfiguringthe dear, living body which she loved.
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