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These were cut, as if with a punch, by means of the teeth of the extirpator.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 by Various

Mr. Newman says, that undue credit has been claimed for Christianity as the foe and extirpator of slavery.

From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Rogers, Henry

Ceaselessly the Popes persecuted them, and when at last in Sigismund of Hungary an ardent extirpator visited the land there came about a terrible result, which has made Bosnia so different from other Serbian territories.

From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 by Baerlein, Henry