half-effaced

• “With a look of ineffable affection, she disjoined herself from her husband, still keeping hold of his hand, and turning to the old man with a countenance in which the half-effaced tears were succeeded by smiles of pleasure and of modesty, she spoke to Agelastes as she would to a person whom she respected, and towards whom she had some offence to atone.”

  Count Robert of Paris

• “To this day I am not quite certain whether it was the name of any human habitation, a lonely caserio with a half-effaced carving of a coat of arms over its door, or of some hamlet at the dead end of a ravine with a stony slope at the back.”

  The Arrow of Gold

• “For a while this world was so bright and interesting, seemed so full of meaning and opportunity that the half-effaced charm of the garden was by comparison gentle and remote.”

  The Door in the Wall, and other stories

• “It was a curious thing, simply a long cylinder with, he noticed as he turned it in the light, half-effaced words chased into the metal.”

  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

• “This letter, judging from the half-effaced heading at the top of the note-paper, must have been written in some cafe on the Boulevard Beaumarchais.”

  Monsieur Lecoq

• “In one of the corners was a half-effaced stamp, of which one could just distinguish the word — Beaumarchais.”

  Monsieur Lecoq

• “The hair, cut shorter on the top of his skull, still indicated the place of a half-effaced tonsure.”

  Five Weeks in a Balloon

• “There is a round table in the middle, with a purplish-red marble top, on which there stands, by way of ornament, the inevitable white china tea-service, covered with a half-effaced gilt network.”

  Father Goriot

• “But in looking at it very closely he thought he could distinguish some half-effaced letters.”

  Journey to the Interior of the Earth

• “It was about that time that I was fevered with the missionary enthusiasm, and in Polynesia, where I meant to go (but where I never did go), I declared to Phil daily that I should find in every cannibal the half-effaced image of God, only waiting to be quickened into grace and virtue.”

  Stories by American Authors, Volume 1

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