Transition is the present condition of the country, where yesterday is effaced by to-morrow.
Enough that with us the reverence for these spirits is not altogether effaced by what we have learned from the Koran, and that many of us still sing, in memorial of our fathers' more ancient faith, such verses as these.
An outline of the same device might be traced on his shield, though many a blow had almosteffaced the painting.
Pray to the Lord and our Lady that his grim image may be effaced from thy soul!
Fifth, which is the present state--The words "the whole" again completelyeffaced by black lines.
Warton as the preceding print, and for the same cause it was afterwards effaced from the copper.
The last utterances of a dying father or mother cannot soon be effaced from the mind of the child.
The paternal likeness is effaced from the human soul.
I allayed what little fears remained her by pointing out how effectively we had effaced our tracks, and how vainly now Messer del' Orca might beat the country in quest of a lady in a litter, escorted by four grooms.
I stared a moment, my reverence and grief almost effaced by the intensity of my wonder.
One of the half-effaced Assyrian stelæ adjoining those of the Egyptian conqueror is attributed to Tiglath-pileser.
His arsenals were empty, his treasury at low ebb, and the prestige purchased by David's victories was effaced by the humiliation of his own defeat.
They were effaced by something else much harder to analyse.
The manner of the other had quite effaced in her all that sense of obligation, as from the young to the old, which she had been very carefully brought up in.
He gave her an account of his afternoon, which, to judge from the worried expression which presently effaced the joy of their meeting, had been spent in some unsuccessful effort or other.
I am very sorry, Lady Helen,' Rose had said, her slim figure drawn up so stiffly that the small Lady Helen felt herself totally effaced beside her.
In a thousand moons the recollection of it will not be effaced from my mind.
The Indian showed him a half-effaced footstep, which still bore, however, the shape of a horseshoe.
The scanty and superficial civilisation which the Britons had derived from their southern masters was effaced by the calamities of the fifth century.
Moral causes noiselessly effaced first the distinction between Norman and Saxon, and then the distinction between master and slave.
And soon the stain left by loose amours and midnight brawls was effaced by honourable exploits.
His victories would have been hailed with an unanimous enthusiasm unknown in the country since the rout of the Armada, and would have effaced the stain which one act, condemned by the general voice of the nation, has left on his splendid fame.
But all these impressions of sublime feeling and strong reasoning were sooneffaced by honest bigotry, by narrow and selfish calculation, by flat cowardice.
On either side of the woman the autumn trees swayed and bent under the rising storm, and every now and then a mist of scudding leaves almost effaced her.
By a chance turn of his memory, one preponderating image effaced the malice of the others: the image of an illustrious statesman, of a minister renowned for his fight against Boulangism.
When they were quite close to her the marquis effacedhimself and bowed.
Lactantius tells us, in his De Morte Persecutorum, that his statues were broken to pieces, and his inscriptions effaced from the proud monuments which his hands had raised.
It often happened that some extraordinary excitement effaced in a moment the last traces of a long and severe attack.
The less obstinate he is made by any appearance of opposition, the sooner I shall be effaced from his memory.
It must be trodden under foot in the dust, and its name effaced from every memory--refused the very right of bearing a name, and even of existence!
Over the word "forget" there was a big round blistered spot that nearly effaced the word.
His immoral conduct as a man and a husband was afterward effaced by his sincere repentance, and he died in the arms of the most faithful and affectionate of wives, who could not long survive her irreparable loss.
Then, again, it might with great probability have been stocked fifty or sixty years ago, and any signs of persons having been here, except they had left enduring monuments of some kind, would long ago have been effaced or destroyed.
The names of king, queen, Bourbon, were effaced from all the signs.
The names of three obscure gentlemen effaced that day the names of the courtiers.
The charm and custom of these religious feelings were never effaced from her mind.
Despotism had effaced every page of the book of nature; you have re-established the decalogue of freemen!
This gentle reproach affected the heart of the young girl, and her anger was effaced in a flood of tears.
At a later period, tables, or slices of wood, were usually covered with a thin layer of hard wax, so that any matter written upon them might be effaced at pleasure, and the tables used again.
She had soothed the fuming citizen, and brought back the fogs of custom, effaced the skies, to which he had upturned no very attentive eye, muffled up his chin, and in many other ways curried favour.
But this bitter and painful thought was soon effaced from the oriental's mind, thanks to the beneficent influence of the remembrance of Adrienne.
The morning brought its own pursuits, and Zorilda was either effaced from memory, or so little was elicited respecting her that inquiry ceased, and the party at Thornton Abbey dispersed in all directions.
Thus do children take note of small details, which are speedily effaced from their minds, but afterwards reappear, at the contact of life, just as certain invisible marks come out upon paper when it is held to the fire.
Perhaps this little betrayal of shame decided her; she pressed a lingering kiss on my forehead, as though she would have effaced the frown which her unjust distrust had set there.
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