As the children throughout the school come from the same homes, play with the same companions, attend the same churches, and are subject to the same general influences, it is perfectly clear that the whipping is the distinctive feature of character training that deforms the children.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
If unsuited to this need, it irritates and deforms character, as a plaster cast compresses a limb encased in it.
"The Cost of Shelter"
Ellen H. Richards
Thus wears the month along, in checkered moods, Sunshine and shadows, tempests loud, and calms; One hour dies silent oer the sleepy woods, The next wakes loud with unexpected storms; A dreary nakedness the field deforms- Yet many a rural sound, and rural sight, Lives in the village still about the farms, Where toil's rude uproar hums from morn till night Noises, in which the ears of industry delight.
"Poems Chiefly From Manuscript"
John Clare