There was no alternative but their entire preservation or their entire suppression; for any arbitrary alterations or curtailments would have been liable to objection or censure.
"A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I."
R. Dodsley
The cutting off of buttons and extra parts of our clothing, as well as the shaving of our heads and faces, was also included by our friends in the list of curtailments.
"Across Asia on a Bicycle"
Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben
The more I see and hear of it the stronger my perception grows of its defects, which, I think, are rendered even more glaring by the curtailments and alterations necessary for its representation; and the whole thing distresses me as much as such a thing can.
"Records of a Girlhood"
Frances Ann Kemble