I took it for a mother's sickly favourite, deformed in character to compensate for physical deformity.

The prostrate wretch lifts up her arms in prayer; 110 Her arms grow shaggy, and deformed with hair, Her nails are sharpened into pointed claws, Her hands bear half her weight, and turn to paws; Her lips, that once could tempt a god, begin To grow distorted in an ugly grin.

Michelangelo left little in this group for the chisel of Montelupo to deform by alteration.

R. [Footnote 1: Abbé Paul Scarron, the burlesque writer, high in court favour, was deformed from birth, and at the age of 27 lost the use of all his limbs.

The peoplethe beggars that hound youare as poor, as dwarfed and deformed as the gnarled trees that try to live on the naked rocks.

His spine had been deformed through an accident in infancy, and to Tom he was simply a humpback.

Thou art lame of body, deformed to the eye, yet this hinders