"Expurgate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wretched gift of thinking, O ye donkeys, is your doom; Do you care to expurgate us, ...
— Modern Italian Poets • W. D. Howells
... without him we cannot stir in it at all. A true king, temporary king, that dare undertake the government of Britain, on condition of beginning in sacred earnest to "reform" it, not at this or that extremity, but at the heart and centre. That will expurgate Downing Street, and the practical Administration of our Affairs; clear out its accumulated mountains of pendantries and cobwebs; bid the Pedants and the Dullards depart, bid the Gifted and the Seeing enter and inhabit. ...
— Latter-Day Pamphlets • Thomas Carlyle |
