His determination was loudly applauded by the assembled villagers, each of whom congratulated himself upon an escape from the dangerous, if noble, task of ridding the place of an intolerable nuisance.
He vaunted the power of the ten thousand Confederates encamped near the Uhud, and demonstrated how he was certain of ridding the world of Mohammad.
At Bilda in Algeria, there is a sacred old olive-tree, in which pilgrims, especially women, knock nails for the purpose of ridding themselves of their ailments and troubles.
That success gave him a good name as king, but it did not draw much affection to him; and it had more effect in ridding the people of evil than in conferring on them positive good.
He must use all the arms and resources of his kingdom for ridding the Church of her enemies.
Cicero himself was never blood-thirsty, but the necessity was strong upon him of ridding the Republic from these blood-thirsty men.
But to come to those other cases, or to take one only as an example--who, I ask you, would ever have thought of ridding the people of Kossowince from that vilest of oppressors if I had not done it?
Let us, then, hesitate no longer to do the work, ridding the fair earth of these scoundrels.
M3) On the 5th April James left Edinburgh for London, where every precaution was taken to prevent disturbance by ridding the streets of rogues, vagabonds and "masterless" men.
Return of the mayor to the council touching the steps he had taken for ridding the city of loose and disorderly persons, sending home disbanded soldiers, and shutting up infected houses.
Oates thinks a good few of the ponies have got worms and we are considering means of ridding them.
The physicists are busy always, Meares is making dog harness, Oates ridding the ponies of their parasites, and Ponting printing from his negatives.
It gives to the story Unity, ridding it of Long Introductions and Conclusions, Tedious Enumerations, and Irrelevant Details.
In 1749 she succeeded in ridding herself of her pronounced enemy, Maurepas, minister and confidential adviser of the king, and subsequently began her reign as absolute mistress and governor of France.
Vexed with these things, but eased in mind by my ridding of a great deale of business from the office, I late home to supper and to bed.
They laboriously studied out the most ingenious plots so that they might be glorified for ridding Europe of a "monster.
The whole letter is indicative of a low-down unworthy scamp, a mere collection of transparent verbiage, intended as a means of ridding himself of a woman he had nothing in common with, and a cover to his own unfaithfulness.
It appears to me, mademoiselle," I said, "that I have had the honor of ridding you of unpleasant company.
With bitter self-condemnation, and profound rancor against the woman whose tool I had been, I realized what an excellent instrument she had found for her purpose of ridding her mistress of an obstacle.
The Abbot, hastily ridding himself of the false nose which mystified his physiognomy, and the supplementary belly which made up his disguise, stood before his master in his real character, of Adam Woodcock, the falconer of Avenel.
But I would fain have this old man's blood off these hands of mine ere I shed more--I will confess to the Abbot to-night, and I trust to have light penance for ridding the earth of such a miscreant.
They fear your talents; and, if the laws refuse to be their emissary; when you are in the solitude of a prison, how many means will present themselves, of ridding them of what they fear!
The men, who would not dare to administer poison or strangulation, calculated without remorse on this way of riddingthemselves of an obnoxious life.
It was generally recognized that if anyone had the honour and distinction of ridding the seas of a danger and a pest that man was Captain Restronguet.
I mean to do my duty in ridding the world of a pest, and if I fail it won't be for want of trying.
It is of interest to see how he sums up his desire of ridding himself of the oppression of doctrinal rules in the cry: “Volo liber esse.
But among the inferior agents it can scarcely be doubted that there were some who believed themselves to be doing God service in ridding the world of the enemies of His church.
At this moment he is alluring the Thebans, by delivering up Boeotia to them, and ridding them of a long and arduous campaign.
Philip had no prospect of seeing the end of the war with you, or ridding himself of it, unless he could make the Thebans and Thessalians enemies of Athens.
One thing only we can say of them, that they were horribly afraid of famine, and took that means of ridding themselves of their fear.
It has been accused of being a policy of despair; and may have commended itself to some who supported it as being simply a means of ridding England of responsibility.
It was not merely a means of ridding ourselves of our difficulties, not merely a boon yielded because long demanded.
The bloody Christian did useful work for the crown byridding it of many unruly heads.
Encouraged by the victory over the foreign invaders, the city of Stockholm took the lead in ridding the towns of undue influence, caused by the supremacy of German commerce.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ridding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
