“Expiring? Excommunicated? No. Nina'd said expunging. Yes. He was going to expunge in a roomful of angry, perfumed, supernatural females while Nina tore Phoebe limb from limb and he wore a dress. How inhumane.”

“Yes, I know," he said, impatient. "I am going to rend you from limb to limb. Someday. When I feel like it. In the meantime, you will not faint, you will get warm, and you will stop being distressed." His nostrils pinched. "I don't like how it smells.”

“There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth saidthings or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life thathe would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.”

“Our cultural debt to the idolatry of pagan Egypt was largely expunged from history by Christian revisionists.”

“Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.”

“Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.”