302 examples of defaced in sentences

Little had they now to remind one of their late magnificent array, with their hulls battered and defaced, their masts and spars gone or fearfully splintered by the shot, their canvas cut into shreds and floating wildly on the breeze, while thousands of wounded and drowning men were clinging to the floating fragments, and calling piteously for help.

After Mr. Beauclerk's death, when it became Mr. Langton's property, he made the inscription be defaced.

All these, and all that els the comick stage With seasoned wit and goodly pleasance graced, 200 By which mans life in his likest imáge Was limned forth, are wholly now defaced; And those sweete wits which wont the like to frame Are now despizd, and made a laughing game.

Image of hellish horrour, Ignorance, Borne in the bosome of the black abysse, 260 And fed with Furies milke for sustenaunce Of his weake infancie, begot amisse By yawning Sloth on his owne mother Night, So hee his sonnes both syre and brother hight, He, armd with blindnesse and with boldnes stout, 265 (For blind is bold,) hath our fayre light defaced;

thy kingdoms is defaced quight, Thy scepter rent, and power put to wrack; 400 And thy gay sonne, that winged God of Love, May now goe prune his plumes like ruffed* dove.

Base hands how impotently you disclose Your rage 'gainst Camdens learned ashes, whose Defaced Statua and Martyrd booke, Like an Antiquitie and Fragment looke.

The Gothic church of Saint Pierre, built by the English in 1434, is a fine old structure: having been much neglected for many years, and greatly defaced during the Revolution, it was at this time restoring.

Methinks nothing more shews the Weakness of their Cause, than that no Division of their Fellow-Creatures join with them, but those among whom they themselves own Reason is almost defaced, and who have little else but their Shape, which can entitle them to any Place in the Species.

of the "Inferno," which is full of historic and biographic material of great interest, but throughout defaced by the license of the translator, occurs a passage in regard to the Romagna, which is curious not only as exhibiting the former condition of that beautiful and long-suffering portion of Italy, but also as applying to its recent state and its modern grievances.

The building bears every internal mark of neglect and dilapidation, defaced walls, broken plaster, &c. Upon entering the lecture-room, a quantity of eighteen-inch square boxes full of moisture suggest the idea of a rainy day and a roofless chamber.

" She reached for the grimy book, "Grit's Bible," the most offensive article in the room, and with sudden determination tore the book in two, and was about to throw the defaced volume into the basket along with the earthen jug when fear arrested the motion of her hands.

The engravings in some places are much defaced or worn by time, so that they cannot be made out; but generally they are deep and distinct,so deep, indeed, that I used those which run horizontally as steps whereby to climb up the face of the ledge.

A quarter of a mile to the southward are other smaller rocks with figures, too much defaced, however, to be traced satisfactorily.

The curtains are dingy and threadbare the walls dingy; the ceiling, though lofty, dingy; the boxes on either side for Plaintiff and Defendant are scratched and defaced by the innumerable witnesses who have blundered into them, kicking their shoes against the woodwork.

Defaced and sinister, above her battlements, she looked at the house and made it terrible, moon-haunted.

The grass has overgrown the pavement of the courtyard, and the rude sculpture upon the walls is broken and defaced....

The waters hereabouts were dark and brackish, and the snowy surface of the plain was often defaced by them.

At Fort Mackenzie we saw a number of women defaced in this hideous manner.

Over the N. aisle there is a curious arch, with some defaced carving (apparently a crucifixion) above it.

In the nave remark (1) Dec. W. window, defaced to carry modern glass, (2) stone pulpit and adjoining window.

Externally should also be noted (1) the vigorous, though defaced, series of gargoyles above the S. porch, representing an amateur orchestra; (2) the remains of a stoup; (3) the curious chamber at the S.E. end of the S. transept.

Outside the churchyard is a much defaced cross.

At the extremity of the graveyard is a defaced effigy.

Within the church remark (1) fine rood-screen (cp. Dunster); (2) carved Elizabethan altar; (3) oak box and black-letter books; (4) canopied tomb of priest in eucharistic vestments, and holding fragment of chalice; (5) curious wooden arch to vestry; (6) fine font; (7) defaced brass of a lady under the tower.

In the interior note (1) the foliage round the capitals of the arcade piers; (2) the fine ancient glass in two windows in the N. aisle, representing seven saints; (3) the octagonal font, with carved sides (much defaced), seven of them supposed to represent the seven sacraments; (4) the effigies under two E.E. recesses in the S. aisle, representing (i) a crusader, (ii) a knight (hip-belted) and his lady.

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