expunge
Definition: to obliterate, eradicate
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The Scarlet Letter - By Nathaniel Hawthorne
...As the public disapprobation would weigh very heavily on him, were he conscious of deserving it, the author begs leave to say that he has carefully read over the introductory pages, with a purpose to alter or expunge whatever might be found amiss, and to make the best reparation in his power for the atrocities of which he has been adjudged guilty ....
Villette - By Charlotte Bront
...Or else he would flash through our conventual darkness a reflex of a brighter world, show us a glimpse of the current literature of the day, read us passages from some enchanting tale, or the last witty feuilleton which had awakened laughter in the saloons of Paris; taking care always to expunge, with the severest hand, whether from tragedy, melo-drama, tale, or essay, whatever passage, phrase, or word, could be deemed unsuited to an audience of " jeunes filles . "...
Ten Thousand a Year - By Samuel Warren
...arily won who drew the seventeenth name; seemg that each party having eleven names of those in his opponent 's interest, to expunge out of the thirty-three, " he who luckily drew this prize of the Seventeenth Man, was sure to have six good men and true on the committee against the other 's Five ....
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...But as this collection is not originated now, and was very leniently and favourably received when it was first made, I have not felt it right either to remodel or expunge, beyond a few words and phrases here and there ....
The Son of Tarzan - By Edgar Rice Burroughs
...He told him of all those things that seem most horrible to the creature of civilization in the hope that the knowledge of them might expunge from the lad 's mind any inherent desire for the jungle ....
The New Fiction - By Henry Duff Traill
...But the illustration has given pain, I am told, in a quarter where only deference, and the deference of all who can appreciate one of the purest careers and noblest characters of our time, is indeed due; and, finding that in that quarter pain has been given by the illustration, I do not hesitate to expunge it . '...
The Egoist - By George Meredith
...Total ignorance being their pledge of purity to men, they have to expunge the writing of their perceptives on the tablets of the brain : they have to know not when they do know ....
Edwin Brothertoft - By Theodore Winthrop
...no wish there to expunge or revise the later chapters ....
Amelia - By Henry Fielding, Gustavus Howard Maynadier
...From this day he never mentioned my mother more, and soon after recovered his usual cheerfulness in public; though I have reason to think he paid many a bitter sigh in private to that remembrance which neither philosophy nor Christianity could expunge . "...
Monsieur Beaucaire - By Booth Tarkington, C. D. Williams
...I have endeavored only to expunge a debt I owed to Bath and to avenge an insult offered to yourself through " " Sir, sir, my patience will bear little more ! " "...
Nash's Pall Mall Magazine -
...The conscientious student of Dame Partlet 's character and career will, of course, expunge this stanza altogether ....
The Prose Works - By Walter Scott
...was given, unless we suppose, with the annotator on the Tatlers, that Swift, although not at that time the editor of the Examiners, either countenanced or failed to expunge those personal reflections of which Steele complained ....
The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray - By William Makepeace Thackeray
...Let us expunge the vulgar expression " miserable sinners " out of all prayer-books; open the portholes of all hulks; break the chains of all convicts; and unlock the boxes of all spoons ....
Notes on Novelists - By Henry James
...Matilde Serao is in this connection constantly lugubrious; even from the little so-called pastels of `` Gli Amanti " she manages, with an ingenuity worthy of a better cause, to expunge the note of gaiety ....
The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne - By Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop
...As the public disapprobation would weigh very heavily on him, were he conscious of deserving it, the author begs leave to say that he has carefully read over the introductory pages, with a purpose to alter or expunge whatever might be found amiss, and to make the best reparation in his power for the atrocities of which he has been adjudged guilty ....