"You gave us to understand that it had obliterated for you all distinctions of right and wrong, didn't you?" "Did I go as far as that?" he laughed.

Two months later Calébar returned, and was shown the almost obliterated footprint.

And the names which recall Elizabeth and whose syllables are a part of our mother tongue, are obliterated by such jargon as these.

The Ordinance of 1787 torn to shreds and scattered to the winds,the line drawn in 1820, which the slaveholders plighted their faith Slavery should never overstep, insolently as well as infamously obliterated,Slavery presiding in the Cabinet, seated on the Supreme Bench, absolute in the halls of Congress,no man can say what shape its next aggression may not take to itself.

They had been obliterated by artillery.

Towns and food supplies, fields and granaries, were obliterated.

Afterwards he would have discovered that while much of what he had admired was preserved to him, much was also most wisely obliterated.

or what makes the difference between this crime and any other, that this alone must be immediately punished, or immediately obliterated, and that a lucky flight is equivalent to innocence?

The pretty garden, near the well, among the lime trees, that our darling mother was so fond of, is all but obliterated with weeds and grass, and since my first visit I have not had heart to go near it again.

In midsummer the bed is dry, and almost obliterated by the drift.

Gradually the distinction between the soldier and the civilian was entirely obliterated.

Amongst the amusements which time has not obliterated, but which, on the contrary, seem destined to be of longer duration than monuments of stone and brass, we must name dancing, which was certainly one of the principal amusements of society, and which has come down to us through all religions, all customs, all people, and all ages, preserving at the same time much of its original character.

Mary's terrible fear that father and son might meet made her ill and delirious for weeks; Tom and his trusty servant kept watch, then heard from a passing cattle-dealer that the gang had been "utterly obliterated" by Captain Desborough, the chief of policebut the captain had escaped.

I looked at him from head to foot, but he was an absolute blank to me until my eyes rested on his slender, elegant polished shoes; then it seemed that indistinct and partly obliterated films of memory began, at first slowly, then rapidly, to unroll, forming a vague panorama of my childhood days in Georgia.

In this state they suggest a greater majesty and beauty than any finished human work can show; the crumbling traces of the half-obliterated design producing somewhat of the effect of the first idea of any thing admirable, when it dawns upon the mind of an artist or a poet,an idea which, do what he may, he is sure to fall short of in his attempt to embody it....

The perioplic ring has become obliterated, and the varnish-like appearance of the healthy wall destroyed.

As a consequence the bone affected is greatly increased in density, and many of the Haversian canals by this means obliterated.

Later the thinning of the cartilage progresses until at last it becomes entirely obliterated.

In suppurative arthritis, for instance, we have the synovial membrane destroyed, the articular cartilages partly or wholly obliterated, and the former boundaries of the joint entirely lost.

When, therefore, Miller saw these men and women scampering into the bushes, he divined, with this slumbering race consciousness which years of culture had not obliterated, that there was some race trouble on foot.

But again at our next interview the simple vivacity of my manner restored his tranquillity, obliterated the emotion of which I had been the cause, and placed things afresh in their former situation.

Some magnetic force drew her toward that obliterated line in the roadway.

The natural man does not reflect, and does not discuss his religion; whilst seeking to recover the obliterated ideal of nature, the philosopher halts on the road at the principles of Louis XIV.

His very ignorance and debasement are to be welcomed by a country eager to exhibit the plastic power of its divine idea,how animal restrictions can be gradually obliterated, how superstition and prejudice must die out of stolid countenances before the steady gaze of republican good-will, how ethnic peculiarities shall subserve the great plan and be absorbed by it.

The house at which our call was paid was set down in the midst of the Pine Barren with half-obliterated roads and paths round it, suggesting that it might be visited and was inhabited.