The pretended revolution of the thirty-first of May, 1792, which has occasioned so much bloodshed, and which I remember it dangerous not to hallow, though you did not understand why, is now formally erased from among the festivals of the republic; but this is only the triumph of party, and a signal that the remains of the Brissotines are gaining ground.

Unfortunately, even the briefest of episodes have a way of not erasing themselves as conveniently as most of us would like to have them.

This, curiously, was erased by some unknown hand; King asserts it must have been done by Gore, as he is certain it was not by either Cook or Clerke, who took command after Cook's death.

The heavy sirocco that soon succeeded drove the waves athwart the islet of the ruins, effectually erasing its stains of blood, and sweeping every trace of le Feu-Follet and of the recent events into the sea.

Some farmer walking over his field of swedes would find the great spoor of his feet and the evidence of his nibbling hungera root picked here, a root picked there, and the holes, with childish cunning, heavily erased.

Henceforth I erase it from the tablets of my brain.

the varlet is right;" said the Genoese, hurriedly erasing the marks of his recent weakness from his cheeks.

(1790), i, Pt. ii, 838, where a plaintiff sues for damages because defendant, a curate, maliciously erased the original name in an instrument of excommunication and inserted plaintiff's name, "and read it in the church, whereupon he was inforced to be absent from divine service, and to be at the expence to procure a discharge for himself" (1599).

But the blood which had left Dorothea's face rushed back as she saw that the trinket had been roughly erased.

Hamlet, suspecting some treachery, in the night-time secretly got at the letters, and skilfully erasing his own name, he in the stead of it put in the names of those two courtiers, who had the charge of him, to be put to death: then sealing up the letters, he put them into their place again.

A part was very absurdly erased by the owner of the burying ground, to make way for the names of some of his kindred.

Suspecting this self-betrayal, he erased the grin swiftly, but not so swiftly that Karslake failed to note it.