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The word charity, as originally traced, remained throughout uneffaced, not unlike the left-hand numeral of a printed date, otherwise left for convenience in blank.

From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman

The crown marks on the first importations, were stamped out with the initials of those who had bought them from the government; the later arrivals, exhibit the crown marks uneffaced.

From Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South by Stevenson, William G.

Abiding secluded as Phillida had, the father's stamp remained uneffaced.

From The Faith Doctor A Story of New York by Eggleston, Edward

But the differences remained uneffaced, if not uneffaceable, between the Coreys and Tom Corey's wife.

From The Rise of Silas Lapham by Howells, William Dean

It was with no little wonder that the first French and English students of Sanscrit found in it uneffaced the proofs of its parentage with Greek and Latin.

From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)