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The actual figures had evidently not been conceded without a mental wrench, as the erasion beneath them showed, but there they stood in definite ink, and Kettle was not inclined to cavil at the process which deduced them However, although in his recent prosperity Kettle had assumed a hatred for risks, and bred a strong dislike for all those commercial adventures which lay beyond the ordinary rut and routine of trade, he took up his duties on the salvage steamer with a stout heart and cheerful estimate for the future.— A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle
In such cases the erasion was so clumsily performed as often to leave distinct traces of the previous letters.— De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream
Will's "copy" was almost without blot or erasion, the other actors were wont to boast.— Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown
My friend said, "Browning scarcely made an erasion or change in writing his poems," and referred to Mr. Browning's MSS.— Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown
Paul, beginning to smell a rat, examined the notice with closer attention, and soon detected the erasion where "Fifth" had been substituted for "Third Form."— The Hero of Garside School

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