blue-pencilled

These injunctions were later restricted to selected "blue-pencilled parts" of the book, and, despite further proceedings by the Crown against the Scotsman and its editor, these were finally quashed.

Injunction served in England – published in Scotland 2011

My friend Lee pointed out that an editor should have blue-pencilled “from hell”.

First sentence in an article from the Houston Chronicle about jails with no a/c | clusterflock 2009

Having “remaindered” all those who oppose me or, even worse, sidelined them into SFWA board slots, I am now ready to issue decrees, which all writers must henceforth follow, on penalty of death and/or being eternally blue-pencilled by the sort of officiously tone-deaf copy editor who ate the Chicago Manual of Style when she was 14 and has been barfing it up ever since.

The Dictator of Writing Announces His Decrees, Part I « Whatever 2007

Having “remaindered” all those who oppose me or, even worse, sidelined them into SFWA board slots, I am now ready to issue decrees, which all writers must henceforth follow, on penalty of death and/or being eternally blue-pencilled by the sort of officiously tone-deaf copy editor who ate the Chicago Manual of Style when she was 14 and has been barfing it up ever since.

2007 May 17 « Whatever 2007

A letter from N.w Zealand was blue-pencilled “Replied 3/4/33. £500” and a still earlier appeal: “£500 forwarded B.N. Z.”

Death of a Peer Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1940

Alleyn presently turned to the copy, read it, blue-pencilled a word or two, and then handed it back.

Death in Ecstasy Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1936

Hastily he blue-pencilled his proofs, threw them into the wire basket, and hurried outdoors to seek the nearest tailor.

Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

I used to include funerals, too, but I found the news editor blue-pencilled them.

The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career Lucy Maud 1917

Therefore, telling himself that Kinross had too much humour to be seriously annoyed, and holding himself protected by the well-known signature authenticating it, he had at once blue-pencilled the article and sent it precisely as it stood into the hands of the foreman printer.

In the Mist of the Mountains Ethel Sybil Turner 1915

Once, when we had extensively blue-pencilled a scene,

Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911