Her fingerprints were gone, she thought. Effaced.
-- Rosellen Brown, Half a Heart
Death, so omnipresent in the past that it was familiar, would be effaced, would disappear.
-- Philippe Aries, Western Attitudes Toward Death from the Middle Ages to the Present
Conversely, as a reaction, one may note in passing that more serious and dedicated writers choose to keep a low profile and to disguise or to efface themselves as much as possible.
-- Sergio Perosa, "The Heirs of Calvino and the Eco Effect", New York Times, August 16, 1987
