Before pushing the body into the stream, he went back and carefully erased every sign of its passage from the place where he and Hondren had fought to the streambank.
Even their footprints were to be carefully erased (though that should scarcely be necessary).
Whatever means of entering the vaults had been contrived, they had long ago grown over, or had been carefully erased.
Prior to his taking the stage, the formulas from the previous session on the blackboard had been carefully erased.
The Troll had carefully erased all signs of their passing from the battlefield, leaving a number of confusing false trails for anyone who attempted to follow.
Some of his secular pieces, a rondeau and two virelai, survive in a chansonnier from Nivelles, but were not recovered until the development of ultraviolet document-recovery technology in 1984, for most of them had been carefully erased.
(He appeared in non-speaking group shots in three U.S. issues; the UK reprints carefully erased or altered his appearance each time.)
With great patience Storm said, "Could it possibly be that my records were carefully and intentionally erased from the master file?"
The present was the only valid point for life--life kept moving on, keeping pace with the present, and once it had passed, all traces of it or its existences were carefully erased.
Were there any indications on the paper of such a phrase having been carefully erased?