Witness exclude, excommunicate, excrescence, excursion, exhale, exit, expel, expunge, expense, extirpate, extract; in no instance does ex fellow its connubial mateit invariably precedes.

Erase, expunge, cancel, efface, obliterate.

In 1770 he wrote:'I either soften or expunge many villainous, seditious Whig strokes which had crept into it.'

He was too proud to submit, even for a moment, to be the object of ridicule, and instantly retaliated with such keen sarcastick wit, and such a variety of degrading images, of every one of which I was the object, that, though I can bear such attacks as well as most men, I yet found myself so much the sport of all the company, that I would gladly expunge from my mind every trace of this severe retort.

A proposal was made in parliament to expunge the offensive declaration from the journals, a more comprehensive bill of indemnity was introduced, and other [Footnote 1: Journals, ix.

I now implore the reader to expunge the line.

I must needs except Lipsius and the Pope, and expunge their name out of the catalogue of fools.

Great Britain readily consented to expunge this article from the treaty, and subsequent attempts to arrange the terms of the trade either by treaty stipulations or concerted legislation having failed, it has been successively suspended and allowed according to the varying legislation of the parties.

"Then I mustn't expunge old Crouch?

And I do most sincerely hope that those persons who have any influence over the stage, will use their utmost endeavours, speedily, to expunge every thing thus calculated to promote evil inclinations in the minds of children, and vicious habits in the lives of men.

Were he now to reprint his work I am convinced he would find it necessary, for the sake of his reputation, to expunge a great deal, and to correct much that he has misstated and misapprehended.

I have a true tiddle-de-winks feeling for you, anyway, and that is what counts, isn't it, sweetness?" Carlotta laughed and averred that she was going to expunge herself anyway as Phil was waiting for her downstairs.

With all my soul;the imputed charge rehearse; I'll own my error and expunge my verse.

To expunge faults where there are no excellencies is a task equally useless with that of the chymist, who employs the arts of separation and refinement upon ore in which no precious metal is contained to reward his operations.

Our Book's communication To goodly themes applied, None of its pages would we wish To change, expunge, or hide.

Expunge same; and say"in the style of orations.

Expunge the, and let dedicating and giving here stand as participles only; for in the construction of nouns, they must have not only a definitive before them, but the preposition of after them.

Expunge the and the last of, that denying may stand as a participle.

Expunge the last not, or else change nor to and.

X is sharp, when it ends an accented syllable; as in exercise, exit, excellence: or when it precedes an accented syllable beginning with a consonant; as in expand, extreme, expunge.

Expunge this last word, "participles."

But the teachers of the doctrine of the right divine do not expunge from human affairs the passions, errors, and vices of the individuals who put their systems in practice; and absolute power, which is the greatest of all demoralizers, entails before long upon communities, whether civil or religious, the disorders, abuses, faults, and evils which it is the special province of governments to prevent or keep under.

Till he knows the success of a composition, he intrenches himself in general terms; there are some new thoughts and beautiful passages, but there is likewise much which he would have advised the author to expunge.

As for me, I must take that passage alone for my Bible, or expunge it.

He had no wish to expunge the ideals of others, so long as they were sincerely formed rather than meekly received.