The moment she found her services required for Mistress Gracie, she climbed the gate of the close, from the top of it stepped upon the new wall, thence let herself down on the disfeatured road, and set out to follow its track, turn for turn, through the ploughed land.
"Warlock o' Glenwarlock"
George MacDonald
Then I arose and fared on a day and a night, till I came to the house of my master, who saw me pale and disfeatured for fear and hunger.
"Tales from the Arabic Volume 3"
John Payne
Cornelia figured to him while he walked away as, by contrast and opposition, a massive little bundle of data; his impatience to go to see her sharpened as he thought of this: so certainly should he find out that wherever he might touch her, with a gentle though firm pressure, he would, as the fond visitor of old houses taps and fingers a disfeatured, overpapered wall with the conviction of a wainscot-edge beneath, recognise some small extrusion of history.
"The Finer Grain"
Henry James