1 While earnestly wishing to erase from his mind the trace of my former offence, I had stamped on that tenacious surface another and far deeper impression, I had burnt it in.
2 But late in the evening, when they were alone, Anna, seeing that she had regained complete possession of him, wanted to erase the painful impression of the glance he had given her for her letter.
3 We would accept our Life Mandate, and we would work for our brothers, gladly and willingly, and we would erase our sin against them, which they did not know, but we knew.
4 Between that earth and that sky I felt erased, blotted out.
5 It so far deepened the stain which a previous and very similar event had left upon the reputation of the French commander that it was not entirely erased by his early and glorious death.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18 6 At the third call, unanswered, your name is erased from the list.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET 7 Leblanc erased the three words.
8 He erased it once more and then took himself out of temptation by driving the other boys together and joining them.
9 I observe among you some lines of an institution, which, in its original, might have been tolerable, but these half erased, and the rest wholly blurred and blotted by corruptions.
10 On the white steps an obscene word, scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, stood out clearly in the moonlight and I erased it, drawing my shoe raspingly along the stone.
11 Once order had been restored, every trace of those events would have been erased and everything would take its previous course once more.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContext Highlight In Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - The... 12 Thirty years ago, this quarter was disappearing under the erasing process of new buildings.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727