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In rush seasons it will make use of publisher's description, after carefully blue-pencilling obtrusive adjectives, but it goes no farther.
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Some people just use the good old-fashioned method of printing out the text to be proofed, and blue-pencilling the mistakes.
The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 Jim Tinsley
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The artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue-pencilling the
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Nor would they appear to be aware that the blunders committed by the censors, such as they were, were by no means confined to malapert blue-pencilling of items of information that might have appeared without disclosing anything whatever to the enemy.
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Robbins was looking over the morning _Pic. _, detecting, as young reporters will, the gross blunders in the make-up, and the envious blue-pencilling his own stuff had received.
Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1886
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This blue-pencilling favours the intellectual falsification of the Book of the Exodus, well-known to the people and therefore impossible to falsify physically whereas the Book of Deuteronomy, a book of priests, was easy to modify.
cafebabel.com 2008
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The Voice's racing writer, after a series of telephone enquiries, had finally located the hopeful Dennis Kinser and, not yet aware that the '' blue-pencilling bastard 'of an editor would be chasing him no more after Saturday, he had actually stirred himself to drive sixty miles for a face-to-face enlightenment.
The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010
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