Smith, we know, would even save them from cowardice by a system of military training, and from fanaticism by an established Church, because, he said, cowardice and fanaticism were as great Deformities of manhood as ignorance or disease, and prevented a man from having command of himself and his own powers quite as effectually as violence or oppression.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Archy Bates had stopped short in his catalogue of the captain's Deformities as though he had been suddenly throttled.
"Command"
William McFee
Skin diseases and Deformities are common; nevertheless, many of their women are given in marriage to both the Malays and Chinese; but I know of no account of the mixed progeny.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham