Superficial Signs of the same obliterated by Denudation.
The organic remains also have sometimes been obliterated entirely, or the mineral matter of which they were composed has been removed and replaced by other substances.
We have seen how much the original planes of stratification may be interfered with or evenobliterated by concretionary action in deposits still retaining their fossils, as in the case of the magnesian limestone (see Chapter 4).
In vain do we search for several of the leading characteristics on which Mr. Papineau descants so eloquently; time, the great destroyer, has obliterated many traces.
Ramses II, Sennacherib, Esar-haddon, all have recorded their names and deeds upon the face of the cliff; and the obliterated monuments of other and perhaps older kings may still be seen near to them.
He looked across at the crackled portrait of his old friend Anthony Seagrave; the faded, painted features were obliterated in a bar of slanting sunlight.
Presently in a sheltered spot, where blown sand had not obliterated the trail, Yaqui found the tracks of horses.
A sand-filled, almost obliteratedtrail led off to the left, and evidently went round to the east of No Name Mountains.
Miss Stuart has declared that she obliterated a footprint which was noticeable in that powder scattered by the dressing-table.
But I remember seeing a footprint in that powder, and in obedience to an impulsive instinct I--I obliterated it.
The bad time with all its hard lessons was almost obliterated by present ease and comfort: certainly it did not seem to have left indelible marks.
She was in a fever of excitement, with all real thought obliterated by the flood of emotion; and yet perhaps already, though unconsciously to herself, she had attained a complete knowledge of the fatal nature of her mistake.
The white horse and mules quickened their step, and the trail became obliterated by hundreds of hoof-marks leading to the water.
The crews of both were at once set to work to wash decks, and in an hour the holy-stones had obliterated the worst signs of the conflict, though it would require many more scrubbings before the stains of blood entirely disappeared.
Then as he went along he carefully obliterated his footsteps, and continued to do so until when, after walking thirty or forty yards farther, he turned into the young plantation.
Evidently, had all these influences worked unchecked, they would have obliterated Latinity from mediaeval Latin.
Nothing has obliterated the work of the scholastics for those who may still care for such reasonings; and Aquinas to-day holds sway in the Roman Catholic Church.
A period is remembered by those features of its main accomplishment which are not superseded or obliterated by the further advance of later times.
The Scilly Isles might well be obliteratedby a roller sweeping straight across.
Other figures, single and together, poured out, wavered across, and obliterated Florinda and the man.
He gave to the life of his people an alien development; he obliterated some of their best national characteristics; and the example which he set was at least as powerful for evil as for good.
They are utterly annulled andobliterated for ever.
Elijah was the deliverer of his people from a hideous and polluted apostasy which, had he not prevailed that day, would have obliterated their name and their memory from the annals of the nations.
The old habit of implicit obedience was far from obliterated or even weakened, and though Father St. Clare was not present the supreme motive of his influence was not unfelt.
Indeed, it is remarkable that we should still be able to point to so many apparent relics of institutions already almost obliterated among the Melanesians.
It is not inconceivable that here we have broken down and obliterated Totemism, among a settled agricultural people, probably dwelling, as a rule, in close contiguity.
If savage phratries and totem kins once existed in Attica, they must have been nearly obliterated long before the historical period.
I loiter to examine the subjects: coats of arms, trophies of weapons, or allegories and half-obliterated love-scenes.
From that moment, I see her delicate profile stand out against a background of pain and sorrow, like a lovely cameo whose dainty workmanship has been obliterated by the hand of time.
But the majestic stream of mediocrity has swept away their dykes, and obliterated their landmarks with its increasing volume.
Through the power released by these exalted words He hath lent a fresh impulse and set a new direction to the birds of men’s hearts, and hath obliterated every trace of restriction and limitation from God’s holy Book.
He accuses the Moors of having spoiled the town, of having obliterated the lustre and loveliness Roman and Goth bestowed upon it.
But doubtful of my sacristan's knowledge, I struck a match, mounted a chair, and convinced him by reading out the half obliterated Greek letters of Theotocopulos's signature.
One of the half-obliterated Arabian inscriptions has been traced by the late D.
Although the greater part of these small basins have beenobliterated since the ice left this country, the number still remaining of sufficient size to be marked on a good map is inconceivably great.
But the rivers, by cutting down and tilling up, have long since obliteratedthese water areas.
As in the heat of summer it is difficult to recall the sensation of winter's bitter cold, so the fruitless and barren periods of a man's life are sometimes quite obliterated from his memory.
This intermixture of strips in the open fields is also characteristic in another way: it manifests the working of a principle which became obliterated in the course of history, but had to play a very important part originally.
Her sorrow was mingled with the bitter recollection of all she had experienced and suffered in Rome, the memory of which had been dulled but not wholly obliterated by her life in Ferrara.
Owing to these facts it is not strange that Lucretia's personality was quite obliterated or eclipsed by the political history of Ferrara during this period.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obliterated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
