A victorious Russia might well afford such a concession; for it would involve no strategic dangers and would, especially if conveyed in the graceful form of a wedding dowry, triumphantly efface the last traces of Russophobe feeling that still linger in Roumania.

It was stupendously effective to the man from prison, that gesticulating little figure in a halo of light, in a halo of rich and swaying sounds; behind it, partially effaced as it were, sat its supporters on the platform, and in the foreground was a wide perspective of innumerable backs and profiles, a vast multitudinous attention.

Martin, his father, had nobly effaced the one Black Spot.

If he had in his hands this leaf, O say to him: Let him efface it openly, nor hide

Eternity cannot efface Those records dear of transports past, Thy image at our last embrace Ah!

The past has presumably been effaced from his memory and he lives solely in the present.

He had a conception of a malicious God, and believed in his secret soul that if God knew it was a desirable wind, God would promptly efface it and send a snorter from the west.

"An author may injure his works by altering, and even amending, the successive editions: the first impression sinks the deepest, and with the credulous it can rarely be effaced; nay, he will be vainly employed who endeavours to eradicate it.

Not a trace was indicated of the old wedding customs of the Tahitians, as Christianity had effaced them rigorously, and though the Tahitians had had plenty of ceremonies for all public acts, as had the Greeks and Romans, many had been forgotten under the scourge of orthodoxy before any white wrote freely of the island.

The waves of time silently efface the hours of life; but not the great works which they have seen produced.

So much is all the time going on that one event speedily effaces the impression of another.

But this whiteness was now temporarily effaced by a ruddy mask.

It is true virtuous men are exposed to censure; and they are, indeed, ever reprehensible in this life, through their natural imperfections; but yet the most vicious cannot totally efface in themselves the idea of true virtue.

I could have had the telescope now for as long as I liked: the upper part of the Matterhorn was finally and utterly effaced and swallowed up by dense white mist and cloud.

Instead of which he weakly had effaced himself, had surrendered his rights, had abandoned his wife at a time when most was required of him.

It has been shown that severe emotional shocks, frights, griefs, worries, may beand frequently arecompletely effaced from conscious recollection, while continuing to be vividly remembered in the depths of the subconscious.

Ignorant alike of the Spanish tongue and the intricacies of political life, he willingly effaced himself in the shadow of his imperious and masterful colleague.

Believe in what we have sent down confirmatory of the Scriptures which is in your hands, ere we efface your features and twist your head round backward, or curse you as we cursed the Sabbath-breakers: and the command of God was carried into effect.