half-effaced

With a look of ineffable affection, she disjoined herself from her husband, still keeping hold of his hand, and turning to the old man with a countenance in which the half-effaced tears were succeeded by smiles of pleasure and of modesty, she spoke to Agelastes as she would to a person whom she respected, and towards whom she had some offence to atone.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

To this day I am not quite certain whether it was the name of any human habitation, a lonely caserio with a half-effaced carving of a coat of arms over its door, or of some hamlet at the dead end of a ravine with a stony slope at the back.

The Arrow of Gold 2006

For a while this world was so bright and interesting, seemed so full of meaning and opportunity that the half-effaced charm of the garden was by comparison gentle and remote.

The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006

It was a curious thing, simply a long cylinder with, he noticed as he turned it in the light, half-effaced words chased into the metal.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

It was a curious thing, simply a long cylinder with, he noticed as he turned it in the light, half-effaced words chased into the metal.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

The hair, cut shorter on the top of his skull, still indicated the place of a half-effaced tonsure.

Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

There is a round table in the middle, with a purplish-red marble top, on which there stands, by way of ornament, the inevitable white china tea-service, covered with a half-effaced gilt network.

Father Goriot 2003

But in looking at it very closely he thought he could distinguish some half-effaced letters.

Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

This letter, judging from the half-effaced heading at the top of the note-paper, must have been written in some cafe on the Boulevard Beaumarchais.

Monsieur Lecoq �mile Gaboriau 2003

In one of the corners was a half-effaced stamp, of which one could just distinguish the word — Beaumarchais.

Monsieur Lecoq �mile Gaboriau 2003