Not only the Allies, but the whole world owes an incalculable debt to this soldier of justice, compact of reason and faith, imperturbable in adversity, self-effacing in the hour of victory.
Argument:--Kumbha's Lecture on Effacing the Impression of Phenomenals from the mind of Sikhidhwaja or vanity of the visible world.
Argument:--Effacing the impression of visibles from the mind continued.
They have also their corresponding negative powers of disguising and effacing the memory of facts, and killing the noble emotions, or exciting base ones.
They organized on a more systematic scale the military force of their confederacy, and even took some conciliatory steps with the view of effacing the odium of their past misrule.
These two towns, when once founded, took such firm root, that Sparta could not persuade even her own allies to aid in effacing them; a clear proof of the sound reasoning on which their founder had proceeded.
Alfred was telling a self-effacing story of adventure, and Miss Caldwell was listening carelessly because she had nothing else to do.
She met the eyes of men in public; studied them well, too; and then selected the instruments for her designs of effacing Peter and his mother, and herself becoming sovereign indeed.
She attracts the public to such an extent that the Thursday has become the most brilliant day at the Opera, altogether effacing the Friday.
On several occasions the latter had placed his foot exactly on the footprints left by the two women, half effacing them, thus dispelling all doubt as to the precise moment of his approach.
On leaving the waste ground they arrived at the outer limits of civilization, so to speak; and strange footprints mingled constantly with the footprints of the fugitives, at times even effacing them.
Time, far from effacing from his heart the image of the fair girl whose beauty unwittingly had wrought such woe--had only intensified youthful impressions, endowing the lost idol with almost superhuman grace of person and character.
Time gradually heals all wounds; and its effacing fingers spare but few traces of events; which in their season may have absorbed the attention of many thousand minds.
Panic-struck she tried to remedy matters by effacing herself as completely as possible.
But when, again, had that suppressed and self-effacing personality shown interest in any living thing save Alwynne herself?
While as for Morenita and Diaz, the mere idea of these golden stars waiting on me, the librettist, effacing themselves, rendering themselves subordinate at such a moment, was fantastic.
Thus, Time moves on, with ceaseless tread, Still adding to the silent dead; Nor power, nor splendor can withstand The touch of itseffacing hand.
The glow heightened her beauty, effacing the weariness which the face had worn.
Lionel too was persistent, in a quiet, almost self-effacing way that never set a strain upon her patience, and was therefore the more difficult to combat.
He tore the letter into fragments and set about effacing the matter from his thoughts.
I am effacing the sins of a dynasty--its abuses, cruelties and indifference to human suffering.
Father," said Amelie, "we are effacingalso its frailties and apostasies.
As the effacing of the inscription of 1848 is not now by means of whitewash or paint, but by erasure, both the inscriptions will disappear at the same moment.
He was as self-effacing a man as I ever knew, and the most agreeable to meet.
In this it falls short of his own ideal, and is only a second best: the best of all would be, in his view, a communion that should pervade all persons and all acts and sentiments, effacing altogether the separate self.
Saul's head was sent to the temple of Dagon, probably as a kind of effacing of the shame wrought there by the presence of the ark.
The dead son's faults are all forgotten and obliterated by death's 'effacing fingers.
The sounds rolled silverly out, effacing the soft murmurs of the night.
He had confined himself to gradually estranging Jean Valjean from his house and to effacing him, as much as possible, from Cosette's mind.
The girl was engaged in effacing the simplicity of her rooms with certain bizarre decorations that seemed the promptings of a disordered imagination.
Leaping over intervals; effacing the darkness that had shrouded him; seeming to mock him as a fool and point him out as a target for heaven and earth to hurl destruction at if they would.
In the woods he always crept noiselessly at my heels, as unembarrassing and self-effacing as my shadow.
The man with the oats fell back with wonderful alacrity, and the fellows who carried halters seemed bent upon effacing themselves in the humblest manner possible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "effacing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
