Example Sentences

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Some people groan at seeing how the growing facilities of getting money, which our institutions give to every man and woman of energy, is effacing the old distinctions of rank.

From Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School by Peabody, Elizabeth P. (Palmer)

Slowly but surely Nature is reclaiming her own, and is effacing the memorials of an infamy which none care to look back upon.

From Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil by Willoughby, Howard