The Colonel decided to continue without expurgation. From Wordnik.com. [Soul] Reference
The evidence of the Duke of Rothsay in expurgation, as it was termed, of. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth] Reference
Perhaps it is too much to ask for complete typographical expurgation of our libraries. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
Unlike the others, she actually said the word "bleep"; it wasn't a Conspiracy expurgation. From Wordnik.com. [Yon Ill Wind]
Dunbar, and rendered service particularly acceptable to him in the second expurgation of Parliament. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference
He translated himself literally, and no expurgation was needed to make the translation suitable for the most innocent eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis] Reference
Needless to say, no faithful translator will emasculate his author by expurgation, and the reader will here find Aristophanes '. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
It was he too who had the privilege of witnessing the expurgation of the Islands of the excommunications and admonitions of Rome. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Praise, then, be awarded to all instructors of youth who will promote such expurgation from the classics as will blot out their immorality!. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy] Reference
Introduction to the first volume of "The Sacred Books of the East," virtually admits the impropriety of translating them for English readers without expurgation. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference
Israel did not singlehandedly conjure up the Middle East conflict from some chronic moral rot, nor will she contribute much to a peace process by frivolous expurgation. From Wordnik.com. [An Exchange on Israel] Reference
The other omissions are mainly by way of expurgation. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01] Reference
He looks for a similar expurgation of all the other sciences. From Wordnik.com. [Auguste Comte and Positivism] Reference
A rigorous expurgation of Art would leave it fresh and raw and genuine. From Wordnik.com. [New Statesman] Reference
If, on the other hand, expurgation is freely employed, the result is a kind of emasculation. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Literature and History] Reference
A great number of States have expressly instructed their senators to vote for this expurgation. From Wordnik.com. [American Eloquence, Volume 1 Studies In American Political History (1896)] Reference
Why has Father Laurentin indulged himself in such extensive expurgation of this fundamental archival document?. From Wordnik.com. [Te Deum laudamus!] Reference
Hence the expurgation of masterpieces that an artist might appear as commonplace a bourgeois as his commentator. From Wordnik.com. [Là-bas] Reference
The bundle needed much expurgation and was full of Greek nonsense, at the head of the chapters, which has all been cut out. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Tales] Reference
But if this be a taint which requires expurgation, it would be desirable to begin by expurgating the morning and evening lessons. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Reviews] Reference
The first task of this body of cardinals was to be the promulgation of new indexes as well as the expurgation of books needing correction. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
A very great majority of the States have elected senators and representatives to Congress, upon the express ground of favoring this expurgation. From Wordnik.com. [American Eloquence, Volume 1 Studies In American Political History (1896)] Reference
They decide in favor of the expurgation; and their decision has been both made and manifested, and communicated to us in a great variety of ways. From Wordnik.com. [American Eloquence, Volume 1 Studies In American Political History (1896)] Reference
Believe me, the secret traitor will not dare to absent himself from an expurgation so solemn, lest his very absence should be matter of suspicion. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
He had collected about two hundred and fifty rhymes, had made a literal -- not metrical -- translation and had issued them in book form without expurgation. From Wordnik.com. [The Chinese Boy and Girl] Reference
His hilarity had almost a kind of hardness about it; no man's letters, I should think, ever needed less expurgation on the ground of weakness or undue confession. From Wordnik.com. [Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens] Reference
Roman expurgation of suspected books, so often unjustly held in ill repute, had therefore, no inglorious beginnings under this last-named great ecclesiastical legislator. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Even now, in view of the contemplated expurgation, Monaco is named, with Geneva, as successor to the perishing glories of Hombourg, Wiesbaden, and the great Baden itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, In All Times and Countries, especially in England and in France] Reference
"But," says some one, "in the future state evil surroundings will be withdrawn and elevated influences substituted, and hence expurgation, and sublimation, and glorification.". From Wordnik.com. [New Tabernacle Sermons] Reference
I have seen the inside working of business pressure; articles of my own have been suppressed after they were in type; friends of mine have told me stories of expurgation, of the. From Wordnik.com. [A Preface to Politics] Reference
I don’t like reading magazines much during my uhm, ‘epiphanic expurgation moments’ because magazines are such a hassle to hold. From Wordnik.com. [natinski Diary Entry] Reference
I agree that true repentance requires the expurgation of the vice (no bowel movement required), but I don’t think it should be such a rare thing. From Wordnik.com. [Repent! « So Many Books] Reference
Ironically, the expurgation of. From Wordnik.com. [Facing Up to Stalin] Reference
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