42 Verbs to Use for the Word deformities

To take every lineament and feature is not to make an excellent piece, but to take so much only as will make a beautiful resemblance of the whole; and, with an ingenious flattery of Nature, to heighten the beauties of some parts, and hide the deformities of the rest.

The veil was thus rent asunder which had in some measure concealed the deformity of Philip's despotism.

But much of this is not to be expected, whilst the desire of esteem, riches, or power makes men espouse the well-endowed opinions in fashion, and then seek arguments either to make good their beauty, or varnish over and cover their deformity.

In every instance paring of the sole should be discouraged, as it serves but to increase the deformity.

In defending what was dear to her, she has been forced to cast away her garments, and thus to reveal a deformity, of which she herself, before, was scarcely aware, and the existence of which others did not credit.

At other times the disease brings about a deformity of the whole of the foot.

If they over-secrete in an excess which cannot be taken care of by the other glands of internal secretion, the body loses lime, a softening and curving of the bones occurs, and the most horrible deformities and tortures for the sufferer.

Rose, my girl, it is very true he has not thy pretty face, but I know him to be wealthy and liberal; and were he ten times more ugly, these two virtues would be enough to counter balance all his deformity, and if not sufficient actually to alter the shape and hue of his features, at least enough to prevent one thinking them so much amiss.

This will in most cases cure the deformity.

Harvey, John, chief of Carwar factory, demands the surrender of Parker by Kidd; entertains Captain Hudson; marries Catherine Cooke; his deformity; resigns the Company's service; goes to Bombay to wind up his affairs; returns to Carwar; dies.

The princess, left languishing in a bower, is saved by her good Genius, who enables her to discern the true deformity of her betrayer and to escape to the castle of the good Alhahuza, and ultimately into the kingdom of Oozoff, where Ochihatou's magic has no power over her.

" The plot of the Contrast is not, as the reader may perceive, one of fashionable life: it has more of the romance of nature in its composition: the characters are not the drawling bores that we find in fashionable novels, though their affected freaks are occasionally introduced to contrast with unsophisticated humility, and thus exhibit the deformities of high life.

Not once did he relinquish his hold of that faded deformity in art, and neither did I. Surely I surprised myself with the new joys I constantly found in the pigeon-toed ladies and slant-eyed warriors.

"I think he feels his deformity very much.

It is only among children that we find the quality of charity sufficiently strong to forgive deformity.

It was his Lordship's foible to overrate his rank, to grudge his deformity beyond reason, and to exaggerate the condition of his family and circumstances.

To use familiar examples, we cannot distinguish white without having known black, nor evil without having known good, nor beauty without having known deformity.

At his breast an ugly protuberance, outlined vaguely, hinted a deformity.

81, which illustrates a moderate deformity of the hoof occurring after laminitis)

By all these declarations another was encouraged to confess, that if he had been admitted to the honour of paying his addresses to Tranquilla, he should have been likely to incur the same censure; for, among all the animals upon which nature has impressed deformity and horrour, there is none whom he durst not encounter rather than a beetle.

How shall we dare to behold that holy face that brought salvation to us, and we turned away and fell in love with death, and kissed deformity and sins?

There was a mark of a fearful gash which had almost severed the heel from the foot and left a troublesome deformity.

What the Archbishop says, is most true of beginners in sin; but this is the foretaste of hell, to see and loathe the deformity of the wedded vice, and yet still to embrace and nourish it.

The day dawned on a scene entirely different from that which had marked the tempestuous deformity of the night.

What have I got by this revengeful Blow of mine, I have only multiplied my Deformity, and see an hundred ugly Faces, where before I saw but one.

42 Verbs to Use for the Word  deformities