The menial man who has passed through generations of oppression, and whose life and soul are blotted from the right of manhood, is sensitive of the power that crushes him.
I remember the Players have often mention'd it as an Honour to Shakespear, that in Writing (whatsoever he penn'd) he never blotted out a Line.
My Answer hath been, Would he hadblotted a thousand, which they thought a malevolent Speech.
The night travelling from the East blotted out of the limpid sky the purple stain of the high land.
Singleton painfully sketched in a heavy cross, blotted the page.
Suppose the church had had absolute control of the human mind at any time, would not the word liberty and progress have been blotted from the human speech?
Some of the words were misspelled and the bad chirography was blotted as if by falling tears, but it breathed the spirit of a Roman matron, of a Spartan mother.
I have slain Ambition and blotted thy foolish ignis fatuus from the firmament.
They knew, as God knows, that every scrap of paper on which they wrote was packed in a suit-case as dirty as the intent of their sin-blotted paper.
The wind eased, and a descending fog soon blotted out part of the landscape, horizon and sky.
The cheer of a sunny heaven was blotted from the skies, and the coming of the winter blackness was signalled by the beginning of a warfare of the elements.
The sun was blotted out by inky clouds, and a tremendous wind began to blow.
No sooner had it drifted through their brains that the influence of Gilhooly, Popham, Meigs, and Markham had been blotted out than they lifted their voices in praise of the blessed event.
A cloud drifted across the moon, itblotted out for a moment that glowing, inviting little face.
And now the white dust whirled up by the stout tyres of Sir Josiah's car, blotted it out.
Then, as I made no answer, he carefully blotted the letter he had written, and enclosing it in an envelope placed it in his pocket.
I felt terribly unhappy and cold, all my joy of the day had vanished and I sat among the ruins of the edifice of love which I had built up; it was as if something had blotted out the moon and plunged me into darkness.
I blotted the slip of paper and handed it to her, with some few pieces of gold.
The hospital camp had been blotted out completely.
How thankful he was now that he had put on extra speed despite the ascent and had driven the machine hard, because the road would soon beblotted from sight!
A breed that should and would be blotted out of existence as effectively as they had blotted out the town of Ypres.
Agatha set her heart upon it at once, and it blotted out even her lingering regret over the lost home in the Regent's Park.
For him to be blotted out altogether from the world, and she left therein!
Then there are other books, which have prologues or annotations by heretics, and he thinks that if the names of such authors were blotted out, the books might be returned, as to which he was told to specify the books.
Not that she seemed poor; she suggested, rather, some one lost or dazed or partially blotted out.
Shocking indeed will it seem for Lacedaemonians to destroy Plataea, and for the city whose name your fathers inscribed upon the tripod at Delphi for its good service, to be by you blotted out from the map of Hellas, to please the Thebans.
There were several words which had beenblotted with ink.
The sun had been completely blotted out and occasional flashes of lightning brightened a gray sky.
I wonder whether by any of the rigorous tests of modern science these "blotted out" words can be discerned.
I look upward and discern no sky, not even an unfathomable void, but only a black, impenetrable nothingness, as though heaven and all its lights were blotted from the system of the universe.
Here a tear had fallen on the paper, and the word, 'again' was nearly blotted out.
I have blotted the paper: at my years it is a shame to be so watery-eyed.
The white pages grew luminous, the black letters grew blacker, a splash, like blood, blotted them out; they rolled up like a scroll and fell to ashes.
For Joel and Lucy, just now, five years wereblotted out, five years of separation and misunderstanding.
Or he sat on the pier and gazed at the vessel lying straining at her anchor, while quick rain-squalls swept up and blotted out the Bay.
Deserting her pastry-board she retreated behind the woodstack and sat down on the chopping-block; and then, for some minutes, the sky wasblotted out.
The friends caught their glimpses of the landscape between dense clouds of white dust, which blotted everything out for minutes at a time, and filled eyes, nose, ears with a gritty powder.
How gladly would she have blotted out the years to her birth and waned into nothingness, non-existence!
Do this thing; be loyal in this--and I can keep on loving you till the end, with the rest blotted out.
