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  • Valerianus's Catalogue of "Literary Calamities;" the deformed Hay's Essay on "Deformity;" the projecting De Foe's "Essays on Projects;" the liberal

    Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Isaac Disraeli 1807

  • Excellence of Virtue, if they did not comprehend in the Notion of it all possible Perfection [s]; and therefore did not only suppose, that it was transcendently beautiful in it self, but that it made the very Body amiable, and banished every kind of Deformity from the Person in whom it resided.

    The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

  • Deformity of the pellet is a good thing to broaden wound channel and transfer energy to the squirrel but even that is a non-issue at this speed.

    Which is the better Gamo Pellet for squirrel hunting? Magnum Pellets, or Hunter Pellets. 2010

  • Deformity of the pellet is a good thing to broaden wound channel and transfer energy to the squirrel but even that is a non-issue at this speed.

    Which is the better Gamo Pellet for squirrel hunting? Magnum Pellets, or Hunter Pellets. 2010

  • Deformity, at its worst, can put a stamp of inferiority on the faces of these helpless children, who essentially begin their lives feeling shame.

    The Beauty of Love Laura Posada 2010

  • When fully drest, a Lady might have kept a Deformity out of Sight by means of a Muff or a Shawl, something impossible in the Course of ordinary domestick Life.

    What is the sound of one hand on a children's TV show host? Ann Althouse 2009

  • In fine, every Thing appear'd to me with an hideous Face, and was the more terrible, by Reason that my self was the only Cause of this Deformity of

    Exilius 2008

  • All this her Friends knew, or at least suspected; but thought it Complaisance, not Choice in her; and that she consider'd her own Imperfections, and Deformity; and therefore, was willing to take no Notice of her Husband's Fancy in the Embraces of this

    A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

  • Asbella's Eyes, that gave Way to loose Glances and alluring Looks, are now only Blindness and Deformity; and her Ears, that were open to the soft Whispers of unlawful Love, are now shut from all

    Exilius 2008

  • Deformity of body, sickness, baseness of birth, peculiar discontents.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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