Cancelled

Examples

• He was sure now that the festival would not be cancelled. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It might seem to be cancelled. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In pursuance of the same act, the bank cancelled exchequer bills to the amount of ? 1,775,027: 17s: 10?d. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Edison says: When I shut down, the insurance companies cancelled my insurance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And even if intended to be cancelled, as might possibly be supposed to be denoted by these marks of fire, it is NOT cancelled. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He would call the airfield directly and get the bombardment cancelled. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• In her death she winged her way back to her calm untroubled youth, and cancelled all the rest. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Our poor brother Francis's death has cancelled that. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• And so the schoolmistress reconciled the recommendation to her conscience, and the indentures were cancelled, and the apprentice was free. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Of one only fault he might have been accused; but his death has cancelled that. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It followed that merchants who had ordered goods from the Cromford Mill cancelled their orders, rather than pay the duty, and again Arkwright found his cottons piling up on his hands. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• If he really meant it--if his will were genuine and real, which it was--it appeared to him that it was the same as coin, and cancelled the obligation. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Editor: Megan