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blue-pencilling

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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.

    The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing Various

  • 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

  • The artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue-pencilling the

    Damn! A Book of Calumny 1918

  • 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.

    Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 1893

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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