One day he loves that woman and wants her to marry him; the next, he defaces her picture.
"Hand and Ring"
Anna Katharine Green
A thousand things well done, and one forgot, defaces obligation by that blot.
"A Poetical Cook-Book"
Maria J. Moss
For sleeping sound in death's embraces, On their clay-cold beds they lie, Death, grim death, alas defaces, Youth and pleasure which must die.
"The Battle of Bunkers-Hill"
Hugh Henry Brackenridge