This was a device exactly similar to the obliterating stamps seen to-day on the counters of our post offices.
When the issue was ready, Ferdinand provided the postal authorities with obliterating stamps, each of which consisted of a circular framework of lines, surrounding an empty space.
As an example of such matter, we may quote the following recipe for making red obliterating ink, which was sent to every postmaster in the kingdom when the penny black was first issued: Take 1 lb.
This kiss, wrenched from him at the moment he felt himself strongest, obliteratinguseless exasperation and futile combat, ended his resistance.
They had so opposed and tantalized each other all evening that all their nerves were on edge, vacillating toward a sudden obliterating reaction.
He had believed then in the union of man and woman as something like a divine rage, all-absorbing, obliterating everything else--this in the bitter revolt against the deception which had come in his marriage.
The Christ image of the crowd was slowly obliterating its reality.
In a few days the idea had grown toobliterating proportions.
All this occurs upon an enormously swollen and inflamed skin, disfiguring every feature of the face and wellnigh obliterating every external distinction between the scalp, nose, eyes, and mouth.
He distinguishes two varieties: 1, acute obliterating arteritis, and, 2, acute parietal arteritis.
By obliterating her supernatural beauty, I shall then have no incentive for any violent affection; by dissolving her spiritual perception, I will have no feelings with which to foster the memory of her talents.
Instead, she reached up her own seemingly wearied and surrendering arms, without a word, and held him there in her obliterating embrace.
She knew that Keenan was still watching her; she knew that he was, in some manner, being torn between contending feelings, that some obliterating impulse was falling between him and that grim concert of forces of which he was a member.
As every year, the metal cutter had opened its usual lines, obliterating with its ridges the traces of man and beast, undismayed and with stubborn diligence filling up the tunnels which the bombs had made.
In the little tale which follows a subdued tinge of the wild and wonderful is thrown over a sketch of New England personages and scenery, yet, it is hoped, without entirely obliterating the sober hues of nature.
Venus the Plunderer seemed to smile, and there quickened within her the desire for excitement, for the exercise of power, for the obliterating ecstasies of a fresh amour.
The white desert lay upon his spirit like mist upon the sea, obliterating the promised course.
In his embrace the sense of power slipped unheeded from her ken; returned the deep, obliterating rapture of over-night.
Instantly it gripped him, obliterating all else in his cosmos.
Only the outer fringe of the city was left, and the flames which swept unimpeded in a hundred directions were swiftly obliterating what remained.
The secrets of those burrows will never be known, for into them the hungry fire first sifted its red coals and then licked eagerly in tongues of creeping flames, finally obliterating everything except the earth itself.
These scattered areas are the result of obliterating endarteritis of renal arteries here and there with consequent anemia, death of cells, and replacement by fibrous tissue.
Occasionally such an obliterating process takes place in a larger artery.
It is in the organs such as the kidney, liver, spleen, and intestines that one sees the most perfect examples of this obliterating endarteritis.
The arterioles are generally the seat of a moderate thickening of the intima and media, but it is not usual to find obliterating endarteritis.
This obliterating endarteritis is not, of course, due alone to syphilis.
There is also obliterating endarteritis of the smaller vessels.
A branch or branches or even one artery may become blocked as a result of obliterating endarteritis.
Also the arterioles show extensive intimal thickening, fibrous in character, with occasional obliterating endarteritis.
Croce; for those bear the obliterating traces of centuries of footsteps, so that some are nearly flat with the stones, whereas these have been railed off for ever and have lost nothing.
It is indeed fortunate that no rioters succeeded in obliterating Giotto's fresco in the Bargello chapel, which he painted probably in 1300, when his friend Dante was a Prior of the city.
As he threaded his way through the narrow streets, darkness was quickly obliterating the dirt and unsightliness which was visible in the noonday.
As the sands lift and rise from the flatness of the desert into one obliterating column before the traveller's eyes, so had his vision of the woman obliterated every other thought from his mind.
With more consistency, therefore, than the Constitutionalists, this third party of politicians became decided Republicans, determined upon obliterating from the new constitution every name and vestige of monarchy.
Honora always had wakened first in the morning, Kate knew, and now she guessed at the memories that wrung that great, self-obliterating creature, writhing there under her torment.
Shut their ears to it as they will, they cannot wholly keep out the clamor of those trumpets, but whether in thrall to love or to religion, to custom or to old ideals of self-obliterating duty, they are stirred.
Across the faint and puny effusions of the past this person sees written in very large and obliterating strokes the words 'Concerning Spring.
Also, being advised of the expediency by a voice speaking in an undertone, he sought still further to extend beyond himself by suffering his nails to grow long and obliterating his name from the public announcements upon the city walls.
Two years afterwards, this black stamp was changed to brown, principally with a view to make the obliterating process more perfect, and the better to detect the dishonesty of using old stamps.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obliterating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
