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  • Deface and maim his features and figure, and by letting him see that to appear and be admired is not the same thing, you will render him irresistible. '

    Camilla 2008

  • Deface the Nation The Atlantic magazine ended up with egg on its face because of what its photographer, Jill Greenberg, did to John McCain's.

    On a Short Leach 2008

  • Deface the Banner of the Nation for an Idle Rag yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Deface the Banner of the Nation for an Idle Rag'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: As voters reflect on the anxiety and anger they feel watching the orchestrated economic emergency directed by the republican White House, they should pay close attention to the associations McCain has chosen to help elevate himself into the presidency.'

    Deface the Banner of the Nation for an Idle Rag 2008

  • Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier.

    The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

  • Deface the beautiful countenance of chastity, which is found in the bosom of girlhood, and you not only mar the happiness of girlhood, but you deface and obliterate the families of the future, for without that priceless treasure, virtue, the eternal principles of conjugal love becomes a barren waste without a single oasis.

    Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light Bernard Fresenborg

  • Deface a silver dollar and fifty cents of its value goes off yonder among the silent stars.

    Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O Various 1870

  • Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier.

    Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841

  • Deface the president with a goatee? iIf so, then you must participate in the 200 Megapixel Hasselblad Camera Costs $45,000 Cicadas On a Six Story Wall Are Very Noisy Modern Art Pyramid Contains 72,000 Bottles of Beer How skillful advertisers can word-jack your brain %userName% took away %your% star %userName% promoted %your% comment %userName% approved %you% %userName% took away %your% approval

    Gizmodo Kelly Hodgkins 2011

  • Deface and maim his features and figure, and by letting him see that to appear and be admired is not the same thing, you will render him irresistible. '

    Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth 1796

  • It should seem by this charge, which is repeated (v. 23), that there were some among them that privately kept in their closets the images or pictures of these dunghill-deities, which came to their hands from their ancestors, as heir-looms of their families, though, it may be, they did not worship them; these Joshua earnestly urges them to throw away: "Deface them, destroy them, lest you be tempted to serve them."

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721

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