He is habitually rapid and slovenly; an improvisatore on the spot whore his fancy is kindled, writing currente calamo, and disdaining the "art to blot."

Then he recited some verses, with the following meaning: "In thee, O Hadifah, there is no beauty; and in the purity of Cais there is not a single blot.

You never penned a line which for its own sake you need, dying, wish to blot.

The fact that the Puritans copied a bad example, instead of setting a new one, should, at least, be remembered in palliation of the unfortunate blot upon their otherwise clean escutcheon.

The shadow passed over the mountain's brow and reappeared far below, a rapidly decreasing blot, flying eastward over the golden green.

13 Horror covers all the heath, Clouds of carnage blot the sun: Sisters!

He never could find a pupil of whom he could entirely approve; many had good points, but if there were a single blot, the master could not bear it.

The levity with which he continually speaks of the assassination of Caesara man who had never treated him, at any rate, with anything but a noble forbearanceis a blot on Cicero's character which his warmest apologists admit.

These were written many times over, and I had to present the pages to him, without one blot or smudge, at the end of the week.

And, of course, there is no decent-minded person nowadays but wants to put an end to that ugly blot upon our civilisation, the publication of whatever is most spicy and painful in divorce court proceedings.

But from its memory, time, in vain Shall strive Napoleon's name to blot.

The cause was obvious: Rasula had convinced them that Death already was lifting his hand to blot out the lives of those who opposed them.

" His ready talent for composition was singular, and perhaps unparalleled; his mind and hand ever went together, and it is reported he was never known to blot a line.

"You have kindly asked me to make this little speech, and I do not wish to turn it into a sermon, but I must conclude by saying that, splendid as is the history of England in many points, there is one black blot upon the page, and that, the act of hers by which she renounced Christ's Vicar, by whom kings reign.

Many of the slaves had kind masters; but was slavery any the less an iniquitous outrage upon humanity, a curse upon the land, a blot that could only be wiped away by a bloody war?

Back of it, stretching northward, a vivid green blot, lay a field of sod corn: the ears already formed, the ground whitened from the lavishly scattered pollen of the frayed tassels.

He sometimes wished to have in his arm all the blind forces of Nature in order to blot out his enemies with one blow.

And the horrified captain, poring over her sad profile with its purpling temple, thought that he never would be able to blot that ghastly vision from his memory.

Yes, it might blot from life every semblance of light As the clouds blot the moon on a storm-troubled night.

Yes, it might blot from life every semblance of light As the clouds blot the moon on a storm-troubled night.

So the blot was wiped off her scutcheon, and Emily's secret was still intact, for no one ever asked again what Hinpoha had been doing in the electric room on the afternoon of the Thessalonian play.

Happily it has long been wiped out, this blot on the city's scutcheon.

But to stand deliberately face to face with a fellow-humanalive, pulsing, breathing, fearing, hoping, loving, living,point a weapon at him that would take his life, blot him from the earth, negate twenty or thirty years of childhood, youth, maturity, and make of him in an instantnothing!

Let me not (Thou all perfection) merit such a blot For my true zealous faith.

O Perigot, Thou that wast yesterday without a blot, Thou that wast every good, and every thing That men call blessed; thou that wast the spring From whence our looser grooms drew all their best;