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Eraser  n.  One who, or that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings, drawings, etc.






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"Eraser" Quotes from Famous Books



... $25 to $75 per week, selling the Celebrated Pinless Clothes Line or the Famous Fountain Ink Eraser; patents recently issued. Sold ONLY by salesmen to whom we give EXCLUSIVE TERRITORY. The Pinless Clothes Line is the only line ever invented that holds clothes without pins—a perfect success. The Fountain Ink ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls - Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 • Various

... precocious youth is predisposed to consumption, more so than to any other disease. The hard study which he frequently undergoes excites the disease into action. It is not desirable, therefore, to have a precocious child. A writer in "Eraser's Magazine" speaks very much to the purpose when he says, "Give us intellectual beef ...
— Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children • Pye Henry Chavasse

... I was handicapped be th' prisence iv th' ar-rmy,' he says. 'Wan day whin I was about to charge a block house sturdily definded be an ar-rmy corps undher Gin'ral Tamale, th' brave Castile that I aftherwards killed with a small ink-eraser that I always carry, I r-ran into th' entire military force iv th' United States lying on its stomach. 'If ye won't fight,' says I, 'let me go through, 'I says. 'Who ar-re ye?' says they. 'Colonel Rosenfelt,' says I. 'Oh, excuse ...
— Mr. Dooley's Philosophy • Finley Peter Dunne

... should go into the town and buy half a dozen of champagne in honour of their first victory. In the course of the evening one of the general's staff rode into camp on his way to town, having been requested by him to obtain full particulars of the fight at Eraser's farm. He took his seat by the fire with them, and Chris gave him a ...
— With Buller in Natal - A Born Leader • G. A. Henty

... been his home for eight years Mr. Wrenn could not devise any new and yet more improved arrangement of the wire baskets and clips and desk reminders, so he cleaned a pen, blew some gray eraser-dust from under his iron ink-well standard, and decided that his desk ...
— Our Mr. Wrenn - The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man • Sinclair Lewis

... took the letter. It was written in a delicate, almost feminine hand. She could not help noticing that in one or two instances corrections had been made and blots carefully removed with an eraser. ...
— The Crusade of the Excelsior • Bret Harte

... hour over his last Sunday's shirt with ink- eraser, trying to get it to look tidy; while Cottle, more ingenious, neatly gummed pieces of white paper over the dirty ...
— The Cock-House at Fellsgarth • Talbot Baines Reed



Words linked to "Eraser" :   pencil eraser, ink eraser, rubber eraser, blackboard eraser, implement, rubber



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