Extirpators

And you'll be positively delighted to learn that I'm also in consultations with the Vatican (my uncle is the retired head of the Vatican Archives no less, believe it or not, so I have an 'in' there) about reconstituting the Spanish Inquisition, those renowned extirpators of heretical depravity. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For this purpose Mr. Chavatte used rakes which were in form exactly like those of the extirpators, U and V, of Figs. 1, 2, and 3, of Pl. 2, except that the dividers carried teeth that were not so strong as those of the extirpators, and that were set closer together. ❋ Various (N/A)

The dredge descended with the extirpators pointing upward. ❋ Various (N/A)

In this way the extirpators lay upon the floor, and, if the lifting was continued, they placed themselves in their working position, in which they were fixed by the bolts A "B" ❋ Various (N/A)

But she always appears in her greatest glory, without disguise, to the true, good, and honest Free Masons; that is to say, to the zealous extirpators of superstition and lies. ❋ William Morgan (N/A)

"The dignity," says he, "of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth, by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honored but with the titles of demigods, inventors were ever consecrated amongst the gods themselves." ❋ Andrew Carnegie (1877)

The bankers were divested of much of their power in 1839, by the rise of three men of the artisan class, who suddenly stood before the nation as its guides and dictators, and more especially as extirpators of heresy. ❋ Rufus Anderson (1838)

"Are you," said he, "administrators of the new code of criminal justice, or sworn extirpators of inconvenient rectitude. ❋ Jane West (1805)