Expurgations

Please keep in mind the previously listed expurgations while listening. ❋ Nihilistic_kid (2009)

There be also books which are partly useful and excellent, partly culpable and pernicious; this work will ask as many more officials, to make expurgations and expunctions, that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified. ❋ Unknown (2007)

By now the speech, with various expurgations, was being read to Communist cadres and factory groups everywhere. ❋ Daniel Schorr (2001)

Divergences from the text are indicated in the footnotes, and I have made a few, perhaps unnecessary, expurgations. ❋ Lucius Apuleius (1914)

There be also books which are partly useful and excellent, partly culpable and pernicious; this work will ask as many more officials to make expurgations and expunctions, 69 that the commonwealth of learning be not damnified. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Exhibition, with expurgations and reservations, of course, but an exhibition! ❋ Arthur Moore (1909)

Public opinion regarding Persian stories and poems has been led astray by the changes of sex and the expurgations made freely by translators. ❋ Henry Theophilus Finck (1890)

I'm sure the programme will be delightful, after a few expurgations. ❋ Oscar Wilde (1877)

Mr. Wright's translation, however, still holds its place as the best English version, and the present reprint, besides having undergone careful revision, embodies the corrections (but not the expurgations) of the sixth edition, which differed from those preceding it. ❋ Jean De La Fontaine (1658)

To the tales that -- with many expurgations -- I told her of Court life, to the pictures that I drew of Paris, the Luxembourg, the Louvre, the Palais Cardinal, and the courtiers that thronged those historic palaces, she listened avidly and enthralled; and much as Othello won the heart of Desdemona by a recital of the perils he had endured, so it seemed to me was I winning the heart of Roxalanne by telling her of the things that I had seen. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

“The mischief’s done,” Lady Wondershoot decided when they told her — with expurgations — what ❋ Herbert George (2004)

(though currently we bleep rather than bowdlerize) glower from the safe retrospect of history at puritanical editor Thomas Bowdler and his expurgations of "indelicacies" from the works of Shakespeare and other plain speakers. ❋ Unknown (1982)