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A little cloud then cloaked us, and there flew an irised rain, And the Atlantic dyed its levels with a dull misfeatured stain, And then the sun burst out again, and purples prinked the main.

From Satires of Circumstance, lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces by Hardy, Thomas

They were united; but the matrimony was not holy, and the result of the union was a misfeatured child named Gaming.

From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume I (of II) by Steinmetz, Andrew

Three finenesses that foulness keep from sight— Fine manners in the most misfeatured wight; Fine shapes of art by servile fingers moulded; Fine wisdom from a cripple's brain unfolded.

From A Celtic Psaltery by Graves, Alfred Perceval