ineffaceably

My heart bled for him as I saw the reflection of my own pushing and pretentious youth, and I only desired that the curse should not fall upon him which has so often fallen upon myself, to recall ineffaceably, with a blush that still mantles my cheek in the silence and seclusion of my bedroom, in a wakeful hour, the thought of some such piece of transparent and ridiculous self - importance, shamefully uttered by myself, in a transport of ambitious vanity, long years ago.

At Large Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

"Rubashov, Rubashov ..." that last cry was branded ineffaceably in his acoustic memory.

Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010

Sanin, really, was giddy, and above all this whirl of shifting sensations and impressions and unfinished thoughts, there floated continually the image of Gemma, the image so ineffaceably impressed on his memory on that hot night, quivering with electricity, in that dark window, in the light of the swarming stars!

The Torrents of Spring 2006

Every fact of it fixes itself the more ineffaceably in the consciousness because of that cunningly studied increase in the stature of the actors, who always appear life-size in spite of their lift from level to level above the spectator.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

Doubtless, the British Admiral seemed to himself to be acting under a rigid sense of justice; but to all other persons it was obvious that he was influenced by an infatuated attachment -- a baneful passion, which destroyed his domestic happiness, and now, in a second instance, stained ineffaceably his public character.

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

Let it not be forgotten that, though at first he had acted hastily and upon slight foundation of proof, and had cruelly wounded her spirit by abhorrent insinuations, without giving time or opportunity for her to explain herself, she had afterward given way to an insane impulse, and had so conducted herself as to fix the suspicion of guilt upon herself almost ineffaceably.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Many years had elapsed and Alfred surmised the uncle had forgotten events that were ineffaceably impressed upon his own memory.

Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

In the heavenly light the distinction stands out as ineffaceably.

Parables of the Christ-life I. Lilias Trotter

It was the fatal flaw of humanity which Nature, in one shape or another, stamps ineffaceably on all her productions, either to imply that they are temporary and finite, or that their perfection must be wrought by toil and pain.

The Short-story William Patterson Atkinson

Of the most perfect steel blue he had ever seen, they seemed, as they turned upon him in that intense glance, to glint and scintillate like the points of two rapiers in a brilliant sword play, while their look of concentrated fury and malignity, more demon-like than human, was stamped ineffaceably upon his brain.

At the Time Appointed J. N. [Illustrator] Marchand