"Expurgate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... we have lived under? The Jacobins. If you have not courage to decide in a moment like this, the republic is at an end, because you have Jacobins." The convention suspended them provisionally, in order to expurgate and reorganize them, not daring to destroy them at once. The Jacobins, setting the decree at defiance, assembled in arms at their usual place of meeting; the Thermidorian troop who had already besieged ...
— History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 • F. A. M. Mignet
... of thinking, O ye donkeys, is your doom; Do you care to expurgate us, Positively, ...
— Modern Italian Poets • W. D. Howells
... shall propose (in a speech, curt Tuscan, Sober, expurgate, spare of an "issimo,") Ending our half-told tale of Cambuscan, Turning the Bell-tower's altaltissimo. And fine as the beak of a young beccaccia The Campanile, the Duomo's fit ally, Soars up in gold its full fifty braccia, Completing Florence, as ...
— Early Reviews of English Poets • John Louis Haney
... of life. It would be best if they could be kept wholly from such books; but there is a good deal in them of genuine profit and literary merit, which makes it difficult to keep them wholly out of the hands of youth. Therefore the editor undertook to expurgate the epigrammatists, especially Catullus and Martial. He was horrified when he read over their works, but he found some good among the bad, as in vipers not everything is poisonous but some things even ...
— An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams • Pierre Nicole
... wretched gift of thinking, O ye donkeys, is your doom; Do you care to expurgate us, ...
— Modern Italian Poets • W. D. Howells |
