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A diminutive, deformed, sickly-looking man was Mansfeld, but he had the soul of a soldier in his small frame. No sooner was his standard raised than the Protestants flocked to it, and he quickly found himself at the head of twenty thousand men.
When I got out, through the sand-hills, on to the beach, there she was, in her little straw bonnet, and her plain grey cloak that she always wore to hide her deformed shoulder as much as might be there she was, all alone, looking out on the quicksand and the sea. She started when I came up with her, and turned her head away from me.
It would be economical for masters to starve or flog such to death. The incurably diseased and maimed. In all such cases it would be cheaper for masters to buy poison than medicine. The blind, lunatics, and idiots. As all such would be a tax on him, it would be for his interest to shorten their days. The deaf and dumb, and persons greatly deformed.
"But his earthly hope it was that I alluded to; what chance for him? Poor, weakly, deformed; he had better be at rest than knocked from pillar to post, as he must be in this hard, cold world of chance and change." "And that shall never be while I live, Ernie," I said, taking him again in my lap, at his silent solicitation. "Why, Mrs.
Sometimes he was tall and dark and stern. Again he was short and heavy and somewhat deformed of body. But always he was everywhere in the night about her. All this she pondered as they began the ride up the valley, but as the long journey continued, and the hours and the miles rolled past them, a racking weariness possessed her and numbed her mind.
Vasari relates that when Spinello had finished this work the devil appeared to him in the night as horrible and deformed as in the picture, and asked him where he had seen him in so frightful a form, and why he had treated him so ignominiously. Spinello awoke from his dream with horror, fell into a state of abstraction, and soon afterwards died.
Bradwardine, 'with which the early history of distinguished families was deformed in the times of superstition; as that of Rome, and other ancient nations, had their prodigies, sir, the which you may read in ancient histories, or in the little work compiled by Julius Obsequens, and inscribed by the learned Scheffer, the editor, to his patron, Benedictus Skytte, Baron of Dudershoff.
What appears beautiful may chance to be deformed; what wealthy, a very beggar; what infamous, praiseworthy; what learned, a dunce; what lusty, feeble; what jocund, sad; what noble, base; what lucky, unfortunate; what friendly, an enemy; and what healthful, noisome.
The saving of deformed and ailing infants or children whose parents did not care to have the trouble of rearing them, required the establishment by the Christians of another set of institutions, Foundling Asylums and Hospitals for Children. Until the coming of Christianity parents were supposed to have the right of life and death over their children, and no one questioned it.
She was talking, the mean while, with the neighbors, who were sitting there on a bench, knitting or sewing. The face of the child was deformed, and had scarcely a human expression. Both Rollo and his mother were much shocked at the spectacle. "It is a cretin is it not?" said Mrs. Holiday to her husband, in a whisper, as soon as they had passed by. "Yes," said Mr. Holiday.
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