Citations:obliterated

English citations of obliterated

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• 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.

  But this discovery was so great and overwhelming that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were obliterated, and I beheld only the result.

  Justine also was a girl of merit and possessed qualities which promised to render her life happy; now all was to be obliterated in an ignominious grave, and I the cause!

  Yet she appeared confident in innocence and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands, for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have excited was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed.

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• 2016 November 17, Brian Pinkerton, Bender, Crossroad Press:

  “You were drunk?” “Absolutely obliterated." “You hit her?” “Not exactly.” “What happened?” Bill stared at a cartoon drawing of a hamburger and malt holding hands on the menu. He pushed his words out.

• 2015 July 22, Mary Brennan, Eleanor Black, Some Kind of Fantasy: The amazing life story of New Zealand's top dominatrix, David Bateman Ltd, →ISBN:

  I don't get absolutely obliterated every night but I have gone through stages where I have been drunk several nights of the week. I am definitely a highfunctioning social drinker, I guess, and I learned those drinking habits in Westport […]

• (Can we date this quote?), Chad Hepler ~autofilled~, Intervention: Anything But My Own Skin, Intervention Memoir, page 46:

  Drinking and hanging out with friends and not going to school was a dream. ... Absolutely obliterated, we drove from hangout spot to hangout spot—accomplishing nothing. ... The drive home was another drunk game to avoid the cops.

• 2011 September 23, Jack Osbourne, 21 Years Gone: The Autobiography, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 23:

  She got absolutely obliterated and vomited all over the place. Unfortunately, Dad followed suit. He got helplessly drunk, stripped down to his underwear and stood in the hallway to our house singing cheesy pop songs at the top of his […]

• 2009 February 10, Adam Crownover, [White Devil], Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 28:

  We got some booze and celebrated, I was absolutely obliterated and we were listening to music full blast and the land lady came and yelled at me to shut it off, I don't think that giving a first impression ofbeing a loud drunk was such […]