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• Mine is a friendship that neither distance nor tune can efface, which is probably the reason that, for the soul of me, I can't avoid thinking yours of the same complexion; and yet I have many reasons for being of a contrary opinion, else why, in so long an absence, was I never made a partner in your concerns? —  Oliver Goldsmith
• Perhaps Clinton might profit by this bitter lesson, and "reformation glittering over his faults"--efface by its lustre the dark stain upon his name. —  Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
• She cared to see no more, but, with a cry of bitter distress, she rushed away as though some spirit of evil were close behind her, and never stopped till she had gained the rectory CHAPTER EIGHT FAREWELL There are impressions cut deeper into the heart by the sudden stroke of some special trial than any made by the continuous pressure of afflictions, however heavy; impressions which nothing in this world can efface--wounds, like the three-cornered thrust of the bayonet, which will not heal up. —  Frank Oldfield Lost and Found
• If we come to blows one of us will have to go I can understand that," she said quietly And to obliterate Mr. North, I shall be obliged to efface--your uncle She caught her breath Mr. Ford, you have intimated that Mr. North isn't an honest man. —  Empire Builders
• But what the frowardness of man wished to efface, the divine benevolence changed to the manifestation of a mighty miracle. —  The Latin ; Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints

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