Crossword-Solution: EXPURGATE 9 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

Then one shall propose in a speech (curt Tuscan, Expurgate and sober, with scarcely an “issimo”), To end now our half-told tale of Cambuscan, And turn the bell-tower’s ALT to ALTISSIMO; And, fine as the beak of a young beccaccia, The Campanile, the Duomo’s fit ally, Shall soar up in gold full fifty braccia, Completing Florence, as Florence, Italy.

Papa read Huckleberry Finn to us in manuscript,--[Probably meaning proof.]--just before it came out, and then he would leave parts of it with mama to expurgate, while he went off to the study to work, and sometimes Clara and I would be sitting with mama while she was looking the manuscript over, and I remember so well, with what pangs of regret we used to see her turn down the leaves of the pages, which meant that some delightfully terrible part must be scratched out.

When he came to what Charlie Swift had told about her own father, Samuel was disposed to expurgate the story; but Miss Gladys would have it all, and seemed even to be disappointed that he had not more details to give her.

Stanzas 5-10 and stanzas 12 and 14 have been omitted from the text of "A Cradle Hymn." They are given here, that the student may have before him an illustration of how necessary it is occasionally to expurgate material set before children.

This wretched gift of thinking, O ye donkeys, is your doom; Do you care to expurgate us, Positively, in the tomb? Why plant this bayonet forest On our sepulchers? what dread Causes you to place such jealous Custody upon the dead? Well, the mighty book of Nature Chapter first and last must have; Yours is now the light of heaven, Ours the darkness of the grave.