It would not do to get rid of these worthless and harmful robbers and criminals (the leaders of the idle and gluttonous) with such half-baked methods as trying to educate them.
Therefore, if we are to get rid of nuclear weapons, we must also get rid of the cities.
So we must realize that it would not be such a terrible thing to get rid of the cities.
I will say it once more: The real country is what remains after we get rid of the cities.
And when you've done with them you can just get rid of them.
But it's quite a different thing, the Armenians wanting to get rid of the Turks, and these bloody niggers wanting to get rid of the Chartered Company.
When you've always had that sort of thing drummed into you, you can't get rid of it, somehow.
This man will never understand that he wearies me to extinction unless I tell him so: and the only way to get rid of him is to make him my enemy for life.
To create a representation of the people in every centralized country, is therefore, to diminish the evil which extreme centralization may produce, but not to get rid of it.
The next thing to be done, was to get rid of Prince Louis of France, and to win over those English Barons who were still ranged under his banner.
Being now quite resolved to get rid of Queen Catherine, and to marry Anne Boleyn without more ado, the King made Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury, and directed Queen Catherine to leave the Court.
Had he been more capable of considering his position, he would certainly have understood that, instead of replacing the hatchet, it would be far safer to get rid of it by throwing it into the yard of some other house.
We must act in such a way," he said, coming to a stand before the baroness, "as to get rid of this fellow once for all.
Well, this same employee, my acquaintance, is looking for an opportunity to get rid of his wares.
It was inevitable that he should wish to get rid of John Raffles, though his reappearance could not be regarded as lying outside the divine plan.
The servants imagined him to be a poor relation, and were not surprised that a strict man like their master, who held his head high in the world, should be ashamed of such a cousin and want to get rid of him.
After Mr. Brooke had left him Will said to himself, "The rest of the family have been urging him to get rid of me, and he doesn't care now about my going.
But Lydgate meant to innovate in his treatment also, and he was wise enough to see that the best security for his practising honestly according to his belief was to get rid of systematic temptations to the contrary.
They must have thrown it into the river higher up amongst the willows at Blackwater, to get rid of it in their alarm at discovery by the magistrates, and it must have floated down here.
But that nasty Mr Lightwood feels it his duty, as he says, to write and tell me what is in reserve for me, and then I am obliged to get rid of George Sampson.
Crying's for them as ha' got no home, not for them as want to get rid o' one.
It seemed he couldn't quite depend on his own resolution, as he had thought he could; he almost wished his arm would get painful again, and then he should think of nothing but the comfort it would be to get rid of the pain.
Nothing seemingly could be more distinct than the words which I heard; then an uneasy sensation came over me, which I strove to get rid of, and at last succeeded, for I awoke.
But we have a charming morning after it," she added, desiring to get ridof the subject; "and storms and sleeplessness are nothing when they are over.
Vandeuvres was not listening; he was impatient and longed to get rid of her.
Rose had taken him up again at the beginning of the winter, and he was now dividing himself between the singer and the countess, but he was extremely fatigued and did not know how to get rid of one of them.
The action of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks furiously.
To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily.
The most important thing is to get rid of these relations; as soon as they are driven away we ought to make haste to secure the property.
But the steps she took were so ill-judged that any one hearing her talk to the arbiters of his fate might have thought that she was in reality seeking to get rid of him.
Threatened with the guillotine by Gilet, who doubtless wanted to get rid of him, Max fled to Bourges, met a regiment then on its way to Egypt, and enlisted.
If, to get rid of these Parisians I need the help of the Order, will you lend me a hand?
Indeed, no," said Sir Ralph; "but I shall be very happy toget rid of my ignorance.
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