Example Sentences

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I repeat again, nothing but foreign conquest by a non-slaveholding power will extirpate slavery from the soil of Africa.

From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by Richardson, James

And he said, What thinkest thou, as to this man whom thou hast honoured above me? verily, if thou grant me respite until the day of resurrection, I will extirpate his offspring, except a few.

From The Koran (Al-Qur'an) by Sale, George

The wise teacher will extirpate the first sproutings of the weed; for a weed more difficult to extirpate when grown there is not.

From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman

A few weeks ago the consul said, ‘I am stronger than the ayana, and I will extirpate him from the land.’

From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry

Or did the Khan of far Kashgar Tremble at the menace hot Of the Moolla of Kotal, "I will extirpate thee, pal Of my foe the Akhoond of Swat?"

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn