blotted

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"Blotted out", applied both to "man's image and his cry", is a phrase that could be associated with pens and writing.

From The Guardian • Aug. 9, 2010

“There are now. I was exiled. Forgotten. Blotted out as if I never existed.”

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan

Outward and visible indication of the plan within, The complex, manifold involvedness of an individual creature Blotted out On this small bird, this rudiment, This little dome, this pediment Of all creation, This slow one.

From Tortoises by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Life! thou sea-fugue, writ from east to west, Love, Love alone can pore On thy dissolving score Of wild half-phrasings, Blotted ere writ, And double erasings.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various

Blotted out at once, it is true; effaced the instant they had realised he was watching them; but—too late.

From No Man's Land by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)