If he were indeed a physical coward he would deliberately uproot the weakness and make himself into a man.
Every decent instinct commanded him to uproot this passion; every impetuous impulse burst into sudden flame and consumed his better sense, his judgment, and his loyalty, leaving him shaken and doubtful.
He proclaimed liberty of conscience and sought to uprootthe Christian superstition by his writings, of which only fragments remain.
He published Introductions to the Old and New Testaments and A Commentary on the Apocalypse, in which his criticism tends to uproot belief in the Bible as a divine revelation.
Vishnu renders unhappy for life and for eternity infidels who wilfully, or the imprudent who inadvertently, uproot the herb Tulasi: no happiness, no health, no children for such!
A German legend relates that as a peasant woman one day tried to uprootthe stump of an old tree in a Fir forest, she became so feeble that at last she could scarcely manage to walk.
Changed into a bear, the man was for ever afterwards cogitating how touproot the tree.
The stump of the old Fir-tree was the abode of an Elf, and in endeavouring to uproot it, the woman had unintentionally injured the little creature.
On finding this plant, it is necessary to uproot it in order to see if the two hands are united--a certain sign that the union will take place.
Go over the border plants and uproot all grass that has secured a foothold there.
Therefore be on the lookout for them, and as soon as you discover one that has thought to escape your notice by hiding behind some flowering plant, uproot it.
Fabian, "cannot we three uproot the island, as Pepe said?
I thought once of making a raft, but now I believe we three can uproot the whole island and set it floating.
And that ye know, and his virtues overtopping your littleness, ye would uproot the greatness which ye cannot equal.
Wallace saw what was passing in the king's mind, and determining by a frank reply to uproot his doubts, mildly but fearlessly answered: "A Scot.
We can imagine a good radicalism, which would tear out by the roots all the evil growth of life, and also a bad, which would uproot all that is good.
There is always an abundant crop of weeds to practise on in an Italian garden, and your fingers itch to uproot them to the very last offender.
He shall uproot Argos and Agamemnonian Mycenae, and the Aeacid's own heir, the seed of Achilles mighty in arms, avenging his ancestors in Troy and Minerva's polluted temple.
He inveighs against the “clever squires who seek to uproot heresy,” and against “our Christian Princes, who defend the faith.
He returns again and again to the belief, so deeply rooted in the heart, of the efficacy of good works in order that he may uproot it completely.
As mortal mind is the husbandman of error, it should be 180:3 taught to do the body no harm and to uprootits false sowing.
But notwithstanding any such mutual jealousies, they were all animated by one yearning desire to oppose, restrict, and, where that was possible, to uproot Protestantism.
Why invaders should uproot such innocent adorners of the earth is a mystery.
It is a bush for which she has had a longing for several years, but never could get any kind friend to uproot it for her.
I utterly uproot all exactions and fines and injustices evilly imposed whether by sheriffs or by others whomsoever.
The king paid no attention to him, but continued to write: "When you understand him better, try to learn his chief passion to uproot it, but to moderate it.
Swayed more and more by the tendencies of a reactionary Russian nationalism, Stolypin's Government set out touproot the national-cultural institutions of the "alien" races in Russia.
No time, when you uproot every hope of my life and present a future black with improbable things?
For a time, I could have torn him to atoms, like a tiger when food is scarce; for the love that had been so deep and fiery, turned to hate: but wrong does not uproot a passion like mine.
There was manifest a general disposition not only to condemn him and the doctrines which he taught, but if possible to uproot the heresy.
It required a series of violent shocks, extending over an entire century, to completely uproot them, whilst in France they were swept away by a breath, like twigs planted in quicksand.
Jesus answered that it was because of our want of faith; and he repeated the words which he had before spoken, that whosoever had but faith, even as a grain of mustard-seed, should be able touproot mountains.
And even then we should be ready to admit the possibility of higher generalisations which may uproot them.
There is too much wheat mingled with the tares to render it safe for any but an ecclesiastical expert to attempt to uproot them.
