All 6 Uses
indelible
in
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
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- It was written not properly in ink but in indelible pencil, and so its message had not been washed away as it might have been.†
Story 2.22 *
- If some indelible red false-fronts joined one to the other like a little toy train went by, I didn't think of my childhood any more.†
Story 3.30
- But she knew the kinship for what it was, whomever it settled upon, an indelible thing which may come without friendship or even too early an identity, may come even despisingly, in rudeness, intruding in the middle of sorrow.†
Story 3.32
- I had no need to see them set sail, knowing as well as if I'd been ahead of them all the way, the far and wide, misty and islanded, bright and indelible and menacing world under which they all must go.†
Story 4.37
- In purple, indelible pencil.†
Story 4.38
- I smoothed out that brown page of the hymn book with the torn edge, that purple indelible writing across it where the print read "Round & Shaped Notes."†
Story 4.38
Definitions:
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(1)
(indelible) impossible to remove, forget, or erase -- can refer to physical marks or lasting memories
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)