42 Verbs to Use for the Word blotting

My suicide would not have bettered matters; it would rather have left an added blot upon our family name.

The watchers saw the dark blot of men and stretcher slip under the wires, and slowly, very slowly, creep on through the long grass.

People may surmisemay invent, but they cannot know your secret unless you tell it to them, and their imaginings take so many forms, the multitude of things that they create blot out all definite design.

Now this your sects the more unkindly take (Those prying varlets hit the blots you make), Because some ancient friends of yours declare, Your only rule of faith the Scriptures are, Interpreted by men of judgment sound, Which every sect will for themselves expound; Nor think less reverence to their doctors due For sound interpretation, than to you.

We have abolished slavery there, and thus wiped out the only blot of territorial responsibility on our escutcheon.

In the preface to the folio edition of 1623, it is stated that "his mind and hand went together; and what he thought he uttered with that easinesse that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers.

He makes fewer blots in addressing an audience than any one we remember to have heard.

Though they had been driving steadily all the afternoon, save once when, far to the south, they had detected the blot of a grazing herd, they had seen no sign of human presence.

By a penetration that discovered blots in their wisest measures?

Mary Coombe drew her hand across her eyes as if to clear them of film and, trying to rise, slipped down beside the elm-tree seat, a soft blot of whiteness on the green.

When he was released, at twenty-two years of age, he did the best he could to efface the blot on his reputation.

The Egyptians, in common with all Eastern nations, attached the greatest importance to the preservation of the name, and any person, who effected the blotting out of a man's name was thought to have destroyed him also.

But in one of the last she had said (to excuse a bad blot and an incoherent sentence): "Everybody's talking to me at once, and I don't know what I'm writing.

It would fain blot out his life and much of his poetry if, without them, it could preserve the best and grandest of his writings,that ill-disguised autobiography which goes by the name of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," in which he soars to loftier flights than any English poet from Milton to his own time.

Each time, on his return, he found the hill neglected, whereupon he complained, feeling this a blot upon his reputation and an insult to his magistracy.

And if you will look at the right-hand corner of this page, you will find a great splashy blot.

It was not long after this that the Christmas vacation hove in sight, and the Dozen forgot the blot upon its escutcheon in the thought of the delight that awaited it in renewing acquaintance with its mothers and other best girls at Lakerim, not to mention the cronies in the club-house.

Do forgive the blots; I am tearing away on this letter so that I forget myself and dip up too much ink.

The murder of Joan of Arc formed the sole blot on the escutcheon of John Duke of Bedford, and the faults and vices of his companions in arms were the offspring of the times in which they lived.

I have always thought your objection to church-going a blot upon an otherwise estimable character.

And what a whirligig of time was here, that I should have saved Elzevir from having that blot on his conscience, and then that he should save my life, and now that Maskew's daughter should be the one to praise Elzevir when he lay dead!

In much corn is some cockle; in a heap of coin here and there a piece of copper: wit hath his dregs as well as wine; words their waste, ink his blots, every speech his parenthesis; poetical fury, as well crabs as sweetings for his summer fruits.

Could you but gain the interested, could you eternize rapacity, and preserve inviolate the blot of the English name, what laurels would not your lordship deserve?

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

Why, ay, you never use to miss a blot, Especially when it stands so fair to hit.

42 Verbs to Use for the Word  blotting