Act of rubbing out

Usage examples of erasure.

Q Factor, though high, is not of any such extraordinary highness as to justify an attempt at psychosurgery to correct the aberration, it is therefore recommended that subject be released from the Communipath Creche on her own recognizance after suitable indoctrination erasure.

I was obliged to remain at Sens, soliciting my erasure from the emigrant list, which I did not obtain, however, till 1797, and to put an end to a charge made against me of having fabricated a certificate of residence.

I was then ignorant that my erasure from the emigrant list had been ordered on the 11th of November, as the decree did not reach the commissary of the Executive Directory at Auxerre until the 17th of November, the day of our departure from Milan.

Until the middle of the year 1801 the erasures from the emigrant list had always been proposed by the Minister of Police.

She pleaded as an excuse that the sheets of paper were old, written upon, covered with scribbling and erasures, and that she had taken them in preference to nice, clean paper, thinking that I would care much more for the last than for the first.

There were signs of recent erasure and redraw- ing at many spots, and here and there little colored hiero- glyphs of mysterious import.

Then he shuffled it into another stack, smeared with erasures and chalk dust, and lashed out with a foot, catching the floor scrubber a hard blow in the ribs.

The silly pretext of difficulties by which my erasure, notwithstanding the reiterated solicitations of the victorious General, was so long delayed made me apprehensive of a renewal, under a weak and jealous pentarchy, of the horrible scenes of 1796.

No plaint is heard, yet this piece seems dirgelike all the same, an urban portrait of hell, not the fiery traditional hell we usually imagine, but the icy hell of erasure and nullity.

There followed a troubled hour, as he dictated, ordered erasure, redictated, ordered rereadings, skipped back and forth, in the effort to frame the secret agreement in the fewest and simplest, and least startlingly unlawful, words.

After effecting the erasure the spot is often rubbed over with a powdered alum or gum sandarac, or coated with gelatin or size.

Redemption of debt, erasure of guilt, a balancing of the Kosmic books, a release from transfinite insanity.

The erasure and removal of most inks from paper can be accomplished by the application of the chemicals heretofore enumerated.

Woody Allen type, or even a sort of social amnesia, the public erasure in which the Stalinist airbrushes remove Trotsky from the photographs of the makers of the Bolshevik revolution.

And so my cousin despatched it to my head-quarters in town, where from the table it looked up in my face, with a broad red seal, and a countenance scarred and marred all over with various post-marks, erasures, and transverse directions, the scars and furrows of disappointment and adventure.