Sometimes if a sheet is stretched forcibly and allowed to retract quickly, the hitherto clear surface will be seen to be marred by a "rusty" deposit.
As a consequence, consignments of rubber are often marred by the inclusion of defective specimens.
Like all young composers, Chopin insisted on copying his own band parts, and the result was that the Krakowiak had to be cut out of the programme, and the concert marredby an apology.
The opening chorus is characteristic enough; the rest is all dominated by the influence of Handel and Mendelssohn; a labour that is lost by conformity with an alien method, a gift that is marred by the very means taken to render it acceptable.
His life was secure from sordid anxieties, unvexed by the contests and intrigues that have so often marred an artistic reputation, rich in the love of friends and the priceless gift of genius.
The chance idea for a moment troubled her--it suggested the black line of shadow which had marred the sunshine in the olden days.
I am quite as willing to be marred as to be married," said the young lord, "and married I will be if all the powers on earth conspire against me.
We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so.
He regretted that her splendid array of teeth had been marred by the loss of one upon the left side of the mouth, and told how a wound had been received, whose cicatrice appeared upon one of her limbs, stating exactly its location.
The crowd is orderly and good-humored, and the occasion is rarely marred by any act of rowdyism or lawlessness.
Strive, mankind, though strife endure through endless obstruction, Stage after stage, each rise marred by as certain a fall!
But the soul is not the body:" and the breath is not the flute; Both together make the music: either marred and all is mute.
But for many miles to come the scenery of Val Maggia does not rise above the ordinary boldness of a granite district, here graced by a slender cascade, there marred by a stony waste.
The distant panorama was marred by clouds; in its main features it must be a repetition of the lovely western view gained from every high summit of the Bernina group.
The fair hair and blue eyes of Helen Le Grande and Lizzie Heartwell distinctly contrasted with the jetty locks and eyes of Bertha Levy and Leah Mordecai--the beauty of neither style being in any degree marred by such close contact.
Fish is the staple article of food, and when the summer catch has been a poor one a winter famine is the invariable result, and this is what had marred our progress.
Only one circumstance marred my satisfaction at having successfully negotiated the pass; three of our deer had perished from exhaustion.
Then, poverty and unhappiness had marredher beauty.
Her bright brown eyes, though large, contained a boldness of expression that rather marred their fine shape and size.
Nor is the space shortened or the silence marred because, one by one, men in multitudes have been alone there before.
Nor are the decivilized to blame as having in their own persons possessed civilization and marred it.
Games of cards were continually played, with shells for counters; their course was much marred by cheating; and the end of a round (above all if a man was of the party) resolved itself into a scrimmage for the counters.
The effect was marred by the levity of the magician, entertaining his patient with small talk like an affable dentist, and by the incongruous presence of Mr. Osbourne with a camera.
Fortunately the day was very calm, and the least disturbance, the fall of the thistle's down, marred the bright surface of the Fiord.
Simrock's speculations, though marred by his standing tendency to claim over much for German tradition, are full of his usual acute and ingenious, if somewhat fanciful, learning.
Two slight accidents marred their visit: to begin with, my cousin fell upon the Stair, and afterwards, while we were out driving, a Stone caused the horse to slip.
Not easily, indeed; old Carleton, to his infinite surprise, played a most surprising game, marred only by a tendency to slip up on easy shots after he had made a run of those which almost any amateur in the city might have envied.
This unpleasing peculiarity of expression marred the good looks which the shape of his face and the fit of his curly black whiskers unquestionably gave him.
Their gentleness is marred by human infirmity, and sometimes turns to harshness.
The dream-joy of this acquisition, and the pride of driving up to the Bullers' door and offering to take Matilda for an expedition, was only marred by one of those freaks which spoil the pleasure of so many dreams.
