Having been defended from the savages of the north by the soldiers of Rome, the Britons were, when the legions were recalled, unable to offer any effectual resistance to the Saxons, who, coming under the guise of friendship, speedily became their masters, imposing a yoke infinitely more burdensome than that of Rome, and Erasing almost every sign of the civilization that had been engrafted upon them.
"Beric the Briton A Story of the Roman Invasion"
G. A. Henty
It was not at all real, this onrush of bird and blossom revealed by the temporary Erasing of the driven lines of gray rain.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
He never dreamed of marrying any other woman than Susie Barringer, and she sometimes tried a new pen by writing and carefully Erasing the initials S.M.G., which, as she was christened Susan Minerva, may be taken as showing the direction of her thoughts.
"Not Pretty, But Precious"
John Hay, et al.