Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense!

The image of God is defaced in the hearts of the savage.

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.

Among many old books, defaced after the fashion of old times with writing upon their blank leaves and spaces, in the possession of the present writer, is a copy of the second edition of Bartholomew Young's translation of Guazzo's "Civile Conversation," London, 4to., 1586.

Beside one of the most worn and defaced of these slabs the cavaliere stopped.

Let us judge and make an estimate of our greatness by the immutable infinite stamp within us, and which can never be defaced from our minds.

The only chants made wore for the better; the occasion having been improved, to paint and new-vamp the house, which Mr. Daggett's parsimony had prevented him from defacing by modern alterations.