At that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Also, is it, not to put too fine a point on it, 'expurgated' at all?. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
Jonathan Homer of Newton, who was, to look upon, a kind of expurgated, reduced and Americanized copy of Voltaire, but very unlike him in wickedness or wit. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet at the Breakfast-Table] Reference
Catullus after it had been expurgated to her own taste. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
A tradition, if you like, is an expurgated version of a ritual. From Wordnik.com. [Incubus]
Is one to write of factory life as one finds it, or expurgated?. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
And then came the expurgated version of the idea of decomposition. From Wordnik.com. [Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Grave Digging 101] Reference
And since none of them could graduate anyway, you are all expurgated. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Clark Addresses his Students for the First Time] Reference
"I'm getting the expurgated version of this story, aren't I?" she said. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air] Reference
"Chronicle Plays" of Shakspeare; carefully expurgated and revised, with. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
“Le batteur!” and then in expurgated translation, “The filthy liar!”. From Wordnik.com. [The Luxembourg Run]
The plays of Shakespeare are expurgated only where necessary for school use. From Wordnik.com. [The Short-story] Reference
"Believe me, my sweet, Willy's just given you the greatly expurgated version.". From Wordnik.com. [War for the Oaks]
Anything that ends in “ly” is the work of the devil and should be expurgated!. From Wordnik.com. [Cheeseburger Gothic » Snip snip.] Reference
Yet this is not the first time expurgated books have made their way to the public. From Wordnik.com. [Huck Finn Expurgated And Other Censored Books (PHOTOS)] Reference
From this expurgated French edition the Spanish copy now before me was translated. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
The diary was first published in 1936, in a drastically expurgated English edition. From Wordnik.com. [Secrets of Nijinsky] Reference
Now the very sign that floated luminous before the brown brick wall had been expurgated. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
He began an expurgated edition of his youth, and it seemed to him that she listened beautifully. From Wordnik.com. [A Silent Wooing] Reference
Was that why he was holding back, leaving out, giving her the small, expurgated version of what he knew. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
All the evil both parents had done-his by commission, hers by omission-would be expurgated by their child. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand of Chaos]
Mormon leaders are utterly vile in this respect, although they are somewhat expurgated before being printed. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859] Reference
Schmidt used, without knowing it, an expurgated edition, and translated eighteen instead of twenty-two popular tales. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
Colbert, French Minister of State, it was expurgated and translated into French by an Irish Catholic of the name of O'Neil. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
She never talked of herself, so that it were well to let it go down that when in repose, expurgated, Greek she certainly was. From Wordnik.com. [Jack London Play:The Scorn of Women] Reference
Dorothy Hill-and-Dale, if ever your name gets on the books it shall be promptly eliminated, elucidated, expurgated -- there now!. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dale : a girl of today] Reference
(Not that Roger wants to pitch for a minor league team.) (As you can see, not every shred of my Yankee soul has been expurgated.). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-10-01] Reference
On the other side of the camp-fire, Kratas was teaching Memnon the expurgated version of the lyrics of the regimental marching songs. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
It was reprinted (by H.S. Nichols) in 1894, in twelve volumes, only slightly expurgated, the present price being about twelve pounds. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
And when the story made its way into the newspaper, in expurgated form, everyone assumed she had told, that she had tipped the reporter. From Wordnik.com. [Every Secret Thing]
Spanish; the courses of study include the usual amount of catechism, expurgated history, and the question-and-answer method of "philosophy" of the old Spanish system. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference
Even this exhibits proof of the changes of time, and now, expurgated of its early shame, one may find 41 Thomas Street serving the honest purpose of a carpenter's shop. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
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