But Mrs. Waterford had removed the stained-glass window-lights in the front door, deftly hidden the highly ornamental steam radiators, and made other eliminations and improvements, including the white bookshelves that still contained the lady's winter reading fifty or more yellow-and-green-backed French novels and plays.
"A Modern Chronicle, Volume 6"
Winston Churchill
Such an occurrence will start him thinking, which soon gives rise to a line of suggestions for approaching the trouble from various sides; or he will sit down and write out a series of eliminations, additions, or changes to be worked out and reported upon, with such variations as may suggest themselves during their progress.
"Edison, His Life and Inventions"
Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
Instead of reaching this point by successive eliminations, we might indeed have reached it in one stride.
"The Psychology of Beauty"
Ethel D. Puffer