The position, the internal arrangement, and the material being determined upon, the next point is that the structure shall be as little of an eyesore as we can make it.

In those days, there were however, some men from whom the somniferous faculty was withheld: they were, therefore, admonished to repeat their prayers and oblations, in order to win the divinity's favour: and the ultimate and customary resort was, if success did not crown his perseverance, to pronounce it a token, that such patients were an eyesore to the divinity.

you horrible eyesore!

And this man has chosen to build his eyesore on Heron lands, within sight of the house whichwhich he would not have been permitted to enter.

I list not tell, Out of the ocean of adversity, To sit in height of honour's glorious heaven, To be the eyesore of aspiring eyes: To give the day her life from thy bright looks, And let nought thrive upon the face of earth, From which thou shalt withdraw thy powerful smiles.

here is our eyesore.

Eyesore quasi eye-soar.

"A perpetual eyesore," Marshall termed it in private.

And, daughter, I will take thee home again, Since thus he hates thy fellowship; Be such an eyesore to his sight no more: I tell thee, thou no more shalt trouble him.

West Point, therefore, was a great eyesore to the English generals and admirals.

[person who is ugly] eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright; monster; dog [Coll.], woofer [Coll.], pig

Blemish N. blemish, disfigurement, deformity; adactylism^; flaw, defect &c (imperfection) 651; injury &c (deterioration) 659; spots on the sun^; eyesore.

London Bridge is the most terrible eyesore to him that can be.

He is the eyesore of youth and the jest of love, and in the fulness of infirmity the mirror of misery.

He is raised and swells, like a pimple, to be an eyesore and deform the place he holds.

Another eyesore is that want of conduct and navigable rivers, a great blemish as Boterus, Hippolitus a Collibus, and other politicians hold, if it be neglected in a commonwealth.

Many times, too, the servants have more means than the masters whom they serve, which [3960]Epictetus counts an eyesore and inconvenient.

Let Trieste be the rival, even the eyesore, of Venice, still Southern Germany must have a mouth.

There is then left a large and horny-looking scar, which is an even worse eyesore than was the original enlargement.

I know very well that I am an eyesore to many; that they would all willingly get rid of me; and that, since they cannot touch my talent, they aim at my character.

What is now an eyesore shall become an adornment, and what is now a cause of weakness shall be a source of strength, bulwark of protection and mine of wealth to all India.

They had to carry all the rubbish away to some distance, for it would not do to leave it near the cave to be an eyesore during the happy days that they meant to spend there.

" "Still it's there, and I imagine she'd be glad enough to have it made into a pleasant sight instead of an eyesore.

But she had lived to rue her experiment, for to this young man, with his fretful craving for beauty and exactness of proportion, it is an ever present source of complaint; and he had once in a half humorous, half serious way, gone so far as to avail himself of the "eyesore," as he called it, to excuse his constant absence from home, and as a pretence for shutting himself up in his dear college, with his cherished Latin authors.

He proved an eyesore in every way, but they retained him as long as it was possible to do so, and bore with him patiently, as no one else would have him.