Outroot

When this was reported to the proprietor, he determined, if possible, to outroot this last remnant of disturbance. ❋ Various (N/A)

One word more, and I'll take that beard of yours, and outroot it! ❋ Xueqin Cao (N/A)

Hitherto the most patient and intelligent of their religious instructors have failed to outroot this attachment to old forms. ❋ Johann Jakob Von Tschudi (1853)

How should I outroot prepossessions so inveterate, -- the fruits of his earliest education, fostered and matured by the observation and experience of his whole life? ❋ Charles Brockden Brown (1790)

Her friends found it impossible to outroot this persuasion, or to overcome her resolution even by force. ❋ Charles Brockden Brown (1790)

He might enjoin upon me the most laborious tasks, set the envy of my brother to watch me during the performance, make the most diligent search after my books, and destroy them without mercy, when they were found; but he could not outroot my darling propensity. ❋ Charles Brockden Brown (1790)

Without doubt his experience was slender, and it seemed absurd to pronounce concerning that of which he had no direct knowledge; but so it was, he could not outroot from his mind the persuasion that to plough, to sow, and to reap, were employments most befitting a reasonable creature, and from which the truest pleasure and the least pollution would flow. ❋ Charles Brockden Brown (1790)

To outroot the conviction of my own unworthiness, to persuade myself that I was regarded with the tenderness that Stevens had ascribed to her, that the discovery of my thoughts would not excite her anger and grief, I felt to be impossible. ❋ Charles Brockden Brown (1790)

"No," answered I, with quickness; "I come to outroot a fatal but powerful illusion. ❋ Charles Brockden Brown (1790)