Lexicographical Neighbors of Obliterators
Literary usage of Obliterators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"that he had not been smashed by the metal stamp-obliterators of the post officials.
By-the-way, curious things are sent me by post. ..."
2. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1905)
"No. xiv. shows the type known to collectors as " duplex marks" of combined date
stamps and obliterators, which are now being fast superseded by the modern ..."
3. The Nineteenth Century (1892)
"... ugly things all seamed and scarred with the tracks of those odious railways
which are the great obliterators of so much that is picturesque and romantic ..."
4. Prisoners and Paupers: A Study of the Abnormal Increase of Criminals, and by Henry Martyn Boies (1893)
"... the obliterators of morality; the savage enemies of religion in cities.
They assail all classes with equal virulence and assiduity. ..."
5. The Methodist Review (1878)
"Immigration, internal commerce, the north and south railroads, are great obliterators
of sectional lines. Wealth and peaceful prosperity are the opponents ..."
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