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  • She saw more of me than any other student and we shared a love of germ eradication.†   (source)
  • We must eradicate these relics of the past….†   (source)
  • He was often pressed into service, asked to help eradicate troublesome pockets of hollows.†   (source)
  • The best way to eradicate them is to mix a glass of alcohol, half an ounce of spirits of turpentine, and half an ounce of powdered camphor.†   (source)
  • There was a murder to stop, a superhero to mentor, villains to vanquish, darkness to eradicate.†   (source)
  • The only thing that remained was that smell of beer, and Jack knew that was a smell that faded into the woodwork of every bar in the world after a certain period of time, not to be eradicated by any cleaner invented.†   (source)
  • The Urgals would finally be eradicated.†   (source)
  • The Ousters would be eradicated as a potential menace once and for all.†   (source)
  • A notice came through her second screen about a Circle campaign to eradicate smallpox in West Africa.†   (source)
  • Efforts to eradicate E. coli 0157:H7 have been complicated by the fact that it is an extraordinarily hearty microbe that is easy to transmit.†   (source)
  • Nabi is proud of the suit, Parwana knows, always tugging at the sleeves, straightening the lapel, pinching the crease of his pants, though he has never quite managed to eradicate its lingering whiff of burnt onions.†   (source)
  • "Mackenzie," Papa answered tenderly, seemingly not offended in the least by his accusation, "there are millions of reasons to allow pain and hurt and suffering rather than to eradicate them, but most of those reasons can only be understood within each person's story.†   (source)
  • Cancer, heart disease, and most debilitating illnesses are almost entirely eradicated.†   (source)
  • It was a ritual of eradication.†   (source)
  • She was worried that she had already been pregnant when we went on our hysterical flea-eradication spree a few weeks earlier.†   (source)
  • For example, people have tried to eradicate pests with various pesticides.†   (source)
  • They won't eradicate HIV from his body, Farmer explains, but they will take away his symptoms and, if he's lucky, let him live for many years as if he'd never caught the virus.†   (source)
  • Waiting for Perry outside the post office, Dick was in excellent spirits; he had reached a decision that he was certain would eradicate his current difficulties and start him on a new road, with a new rainbow in view.†   (source)
  • How much longer would it take to eradicate the scars of interracial civil war, which could not be fought without a great loss of life on both sides?†   (source)
  • Most correctly named August Illea as Dad's partner in eradicating the rebel forces, and they all knew the history of the Fourth World War.†   (source)
  • So perhaps, you say hopefully, discrimination was practically eradicated during the twentieth century, like polio.†   (source)
  • When we were dead, they would spread the word that the criminals had been eradicated, that the Volturi had acted with nothing but impartiality.†   (source)
  • 5 million people once died annually from smallpox; since it was eradicated in 1977, about 45 million lives have been saved.†   (source)
  • "It's impossible to know how many lives were ultimately saved by eradicating those bombing cells," says one intelligence officer who supported the mission.†   (source)
  • An elderly man in our village, whom we called the "Wuho man," told my niang that the best way to eradicate monkeys was to wet them on the grain grinder on the day of rain.†   (source)
  • They will become Forsaken, easy prey for the demons, and those Downworlders who have not fled will be quickly eradicated.†   (source)
  • I pulled her closer to me, wanting to eradicate any distance between our bodies.†   (source)
  • The birth control her file listed she used would eradicate his sperm vaginally, but not orally.†   (source)
  • He dragged them to an icon for the Burn programme, which did not simply delete the documents but eradicated them byte by byte.†   (source)
  • After all, as her mother points out, the only thing Felicia ever did for the revolution was pull a few dandelions during the weed-eradication campaign in 1962, and then only reluctantly.†   (source)
  • I mean, shouldn't an angel that's part of a legion to eradicate humanity look, well, evil and alien?†   (source)
  • That they eradicated their name from my historical account is unspeakable.†   (source)
  • The British seemed to be greatly interested in supporting efforts aimed at destabilizing and ultimately eradicating American slavery.†   (source)
  • The Horvath changes took time and technology to eradicate.†   (source)
  • It would probably be true in your case, but you must remember that most of the world is still uneducated by any reasonable standards, and is riddled with prejudices and superstitions that may take decades to eradicate.†   (source)
  • But despite the nagging problems, which included eradicating the memory of Nathan and the difference in our ages, I had the feeling that Sophie would be willing, and I resolved to nibble around the edges of this proposition with her once she woke up.†   (source)
  • Gambling was invariably the sin to be eradicated.†   (source)
  • Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.†   (source)
  • A sound of pleasure slips out of my mouth as the stuff eradicates my itching.†   (source)
  • And I can either despise it, attack it, eradicate it …. or I can use it.†   (source)
  • Planted here to eradicate those who survived the first three waves.†   (source)
  • The eradication of the Creole pig, or the dam at Péligre, for example.†   (source)
  • It makes us that much easier to hunt down and eradicate.†   (source)
  • The ultimate goal of the Others: eradication, internment, or enslavement?†   (source)
  • "We aren't trying to eradicate peculiardom—we're trying to save it!"†   (source)
  • Not like the beginning, when I feared her and wished for her eradication from my mind.†   (source)
  • He ran his tongue over his upper teeth, trying to eradicate the taste of bile that filled his mouth.†   (source)
  • But they would be dedicated to the eradication of mankind instead of its salvation.†   (source)
  • These pigs are pests—even the government says so—and they need to be eradicated.†   (source)
  • He added, "They wanted -- how do you say in English -- eradicate this example of living together."†   (source)
  • Now, however, the women in the CARE program are trying to eradicate this tradition.†   (source)
  • They eradicate pain, soothe a troubled mind.†   (source)
  • Eradicate them as you would an infestation of vermin.†   (source)
  • You can go to the doctor, get a prescription to eradicate the symptoms.†   (source)
  • Galbatorix doesn't want to eradicate the dragons.†   (source)
  • So best to eradicate the phone, silence it, as she would silence him if she knew he had gotten even this far.†   (source)
  • It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated … And Harry saw very clearly as be sal there under the hot sun bow people who cared about him had stood in front of him one by one, his mother, his father, his godfather, and finally Dumbledore, all determined to protect him; but now that was over.†   (source)
  • "We will be killing power in selected areas," Rocher was saying, "to eradicate extraneous magnetic interference.†   (source)
  • "Fortunately for historians," Teabing said, "some of the gospels that Constantine attempted to eradicate managed to survive.†   (source)
  • The Red Guards have determined to eradicate the roots of this noxious weed in order to promote Chairman Mao's revolutionary cause."†   (source)
  • Now these 'winners' have free play, so it becomes harder and harder to combat certain kinds of pest simply because of man's attempt to eradicate them.†   (source)
  • How do you think we eradicated cancer?†   (source)
  • They divided into factions that sought to eradicate those qualities they believed responsible for the world's disarray.†   (source)
  • The loss of his teeth, on the other hand, did not result from a natural calamity but from the shoddy work of an itinerant dentist who decided to eradicate a simple infection by drastic means.†   (source)
  • He could see some of Père Lafontant's communal latrines, which had all but eradicated typhoid in this village.†   (source)
  • But when you spray a field or an orchard with pesticides, you actually cause a miniature ecocatastrophe for the pests you are trying to eradicate.†   (source)
  • Despite Clement's false charges and best efforts to eradicate them, the Knights had powerful allies, and some managed to escape the Vatican purges.†   (source)
  • Howard Hiatt had introduced Jim and Paul to the foundation's senior science adviser, a man named Bill Foege, one of the people responsible for the eradication of smallpox, known to favor unconventional approaches to supposedly impossible problems.†   (source)
  • Very difficult to eradicate.†   (source)
  • The Old Ones have always nested on Helgrind, but in the time of my grandfather's father, Galbatorix stole their eggs and killed their young, and he forced them to swear fealty to him lest he eradicate their line entirely.†   (source)
  • Nasuada rubbed her arms, trying to eradicate the memory of those awful, horrible eyes…… "Thank you."†   (source)
  • Ten thousand years to plan the eradication of humans from Earth and this is the best they can come up with?†   (source)
  • I decided to do some research to see if the unacceptable side effects could be diminished or eradicated.†   (source)
  • With a single gesture he yanked the lid off and sloshed the acid over the Mark on the corpse's arm, eradicating it.†   (source)
  • Television had shrunk the world, and had in the process become a great weapon for eradicating ignorance and promoting democracy.†   (source)
  • When the dragons realized that thirteen of their own had betrayed them-that those thirteen were helping Galbatorix to eradicate the rest of their race and that it was unlikely anyone could stop their rampage-the dragons grew so angry, every dragon not of the Forsworn combined their strength and wrought one of their inexplicable pieces of magic.†   (source)
  • In examining the income gap between black and white adults—it is well established that blacks earn significantly less—scholars have found that the gap is virtually eradicated if the blacks' lower eighth-grade test scores are taken into account.†   (source)
  • He began by telling me everything I wanted to hear and ended telling me the things I needed to: The principal weapon to eradicate the human hangers-on were the humans themselves.†   (source)
  • Adam's squadron was focused on eradicating the IED and suicide bombing networks prevalent across the country, a mission of "dire importance," according to the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization.†   (source)
  • He would not let them escape; he would catch them and tear at them and burn them until he had eradicated them from the world.†   (source)
  • 6 billion project to eradicate obstetric fistula, while laying the groundwork for a major international assault on maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • When we, the Riders, became aware of the Ra'zac's foul presence in Alagaesia, we did our best to eradicate them, as we would leaf blight.†   (source)
  • Or consider the $32 million that the United States invested over ten years in the global battle to eradicate smallpox.†   (source)
  • These three steps--campaigns to fund girls' education, to iodize salt to prevent mental retardation, and to eradicate fistula--would not solve the problems of the world's women.†   (source)
  • Du Vrangr Gata poses no more of a threat to him than they do to you, and I'll not have them eradicated without reason.†   (source)
  • Bill Foege, a legendary figure in public health who helped eradicate smallpox, believes that genital cutting is finally on its way out, largely because of the work of Molly and the staff at Tostan.†   (source)
  • Examples include the eradication of smallpox, vaccination campaigns, and battles against river blindness and guinea worm disease.†   (source)
  • Because of the money saved by eradication, that investment has yielded a 46 percent annual return in the three decades since smallpox was eradicated--a better investment than any stock in that period.†   (source)
  • Because of the money saved by eradication, that investment has yielded a 46 percent annual return in the three decades since smallpox was eradicated--a better investment than any stock in that period.†   (source)
  • And no matter how diligently I tried to eradicate the phrase from their vocabulary, they continued to use it.†   (source)
  • How much longer would it take to eradicate the scars of inter-racial civil war, which could not be fought without a great loss of life on both sides?†   (source)
  • It was funny how we thought education to be the great gilded key which would solve all problems, eliminate all poverty and disease, eradicate differences between social classes, and bring the children of okra-planters up to par with the children of emperors.†   (source)
  • Slowly, the awareness came to me that no matter what happened, my struggles and efforts could not eradicate the weight and inalienable supremacy of two hundred years: the children of slaves could not converse or compete with the offspring of planters, the descendants of London barristers, the progeny of sprawling, upward-climbing white America.†   (source)
  • It set out to eradicate heresy, and ended by perpetuating it.†   (source)
  • The sex instinct will be eradicated.†   (source)
  • It seemed to him like a weakness: this was his own land, and he would have walled it in if he could with steel until he had eradicated from it everything which reminded him of how it had once appeared to a miserable child.†   (source)
  • I would make it a rule to eradicate from my patient any strong personal taste which is not actually a sin, even if it is something quite trivial such as a fondness for county cricket or collecting stamps or drinking cocoa.†   (source)
  • In a word: the first work of the hero is to retreat from the world scene of secondary effects to those causal zones of the psyche where the difficulties really reside, and there to clarify the difficulties, eradicate them in his own case (i.e., give battle to the nursery demons of his local culture) and break through to the undistorted, direct experience and assimilation of what C. G. Jung has called "the archetypal images."†   (source)
  • Honesty is a hard thing to eradicate.†   (source)
  • It was as though whatever marks being in the world had left upon it up to the time the aunt vanished had been removed, eradicated at least, from between the skeleton and the skin, between the sum of experience and the envelope in which it resides, by the intervening years of annealing and untroubled flesh.†   (source)
  • I could not deny it; neither could I eradicate the impression it made on her mind.†   (source)
  • It was rumored that Arrowsmith of McGurk had something which might eradicate plague.†   (source)
  • And how happy it must make you that you can be helpful in eradicating human suffering.†   (source)
  • His systematic eradication of suffering.†   (source)
  • There are "certain" words and conversations unhappily impossible to eradicate in schools.†   (source)
  • I find that the image which I did suppose had been eradicated from my 'eart is NOT eradicated.†   (source)
  • As is the case with all good-hearted people, misfortune had eradicated his bitterness.†   (source)
  • This widespread custom of two centuries has not been eradicated in thirty years.†   (source)
  • You will only eradicate it when you have changed my preference.†   (source)
  • Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.†   (source)
  • He made up his mind that he would go to the shop every day; it was obvious that he had made a disagreeable impression on her, but he thought he had the wits to eradicate it; he would take care not to say anything at which the most susceptible person could be offended.†   (source)
  • For one of Eulalie's most rooted beliefs, and one that the formidable list of corrections which her experience must have compiled was powerless to eradicate, was that Mme. Sazerat's name was really Mme. Sazerin.†   (source)
  • Neither, they insisted, could the deep and sad effect of this woman's voice be eradicated from their minds.†   (source)
  • They must have separated in terror and dread that night, though each perhaps carried away with him one great thought which was never eradicated from his mind for ever afterwards.†   (source)
  • And it is the educator's task explicitly to foster the true—and by appropriate practical persuasion forever to eradicate the false when it tries to emerge.†   (source)
  • And I want to eradicate it….†   (source)
  • Pickerbaugh apparently believed that this research would take six weeks; Martin had hoped to do it in two years; and with the present interruptions it would require two hundred, by which time the Pickerbaughs would have eradicated syphilis and made the test useless.†   (source)
  • You haven't heard about that yet, by the way, but he gave me a nice lecture on the topic—wants to eradicate it systematically with an encyclopedia.†   (source)
  • …hilarity—she would utter a shrill cry, shut tight her little bird-like eyes, which were beginning to be clouded over by a cataract, and quickly, as though she had only just time to avoid some indecent sight or to parry a mortal blow, burying her face in her hands, which completely engulfed it, and prevented her from seeing anything at all, she would appear to be struggling to suppress, to eradicate a laugh which, were she to give way to it, must inevitably leave her inanimate.†   (source)
  • I empty my glass in honor of your literary efforts to eradicate human suffering!" he concluded, and throwing his head back, he downed his burgundy and champagne in two great gulps.†   (source)
  • I'm disappointed; not for myself, but for her; disappointed to find that, after living for more than six months in daily contact with myself, she has not been capable of improving her mind even to the point of spontaneously eradicating from it a taste for Victor Masse!†   (source)
  • Perhaps besides Herr Settembrini struggling to eradicate suffering and honor-loving Joachim poring over his Russian textbooks, there were here and there people who did likewise, if not among the denizens of the common lounging areas—which was indeed very unlikely—then among the bedridden and moribund.†   (source)
  • Heedful of the truth that its task is to further human happiness, or in other words, finally to eradicate human suffering by combating it with practical social work; heedful, further, of the truth that this noble mission can be completed only wirh the help of social science, whose ultimate goal is the perfect state—the League for the Organization of Progress resolved in Barcelona to publish a multivolumed work, which is to bear the title The Sociology of Suffering and in which human…†   (source)
  • From that perspective, the lapses and eccentricities in his everyday appearance were apparently mere imperfections, or inept adaptations, were the vestiges or hints of a pure and true nature that could not be totally eradicated.†   (source)
  • They spoke repeatedly and at length with the literary man about his decision: whether he would be able to follow the rules of rest cure on his own; how he would continue the complex, encyclopedic task he had taken upon himself—that survey of literary masterpieces from the perspective of human sufferings and their eradication; and finally, about his future quarters in a building belonging to a "retailer of foodstuffs," as Herr Settembrini put it.†   (source)
  • And although I cannot, I confess, in principle sympathise with private charity, for it not only fails to eradicate the evil but even promotes it, yet I must admit that I saw your action with pleasure—yes, yes, I like it.†   (source)
  • He was not originally a cruel or even a severe man; but with passions by nature cold, and with a high, though mistaken, sense of duty, his heart had been gradually hardened by the ascetic life which he pursued, the supreme power which he enjoyed, and the supposed necessity of subduing infidelity and eradicating heresy, which he conceived peculiarly incumbent on him.†   (source)
  • It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even to most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.†   (source)
  • The chief concern of religions is to purify, to regulate, and to restrain the excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men feel at periods of equality; but they would err in attempting to control it completely or to eradicate it.†   (source)
  • You think it is not important, but at his age smoking is a bad and pernicious habit, and bad habits ought to be eradicated in the beginning.†   (source)
  • My father saw this change with pleasure, and he turned his thoughts towards the best method of eradicating the remains of my melancholy, which every now and then would return by fits, and with a devouring blackness overcast the approaching sunshine.†   (source)
  • It is impossible to eradicate the passions; but we must strive to direct them to a noble aim, and it is therefore necessary that everyone should be able to satisfy his passions within the limits of virtue.†   (source)
  • With the increase of the chronic disease which had thus, apparently, taken too sure hold upon her constitution to be eradicated by human means, I could not fall to observe a similar increase in the nervous irritation of her temperament, and in her excitability by trivial causes of fear.†   (source)
  • He is mixed with the blood of the Indians, you have heard; and neither the refinements of education nor the advantages of our excellent liturgy have been able entirely to eradicate the evil.†   (source)
  • I am fully persuaded that you have repented and do repent of what has called forth the present letter, and that you will cooperate with me in eradicating the cause of our estrangement, and forgetting the past.†   (source)
  • If I can put that aside, if I can eradicate the marks of what I have endured, and can emerge before the world—a—ha—gentleman unspoiled, unspotted—is it a great deal to expect—I say again, is it a great deal to expect—that my children should—hum—do the same and sweep that accursed experience off the face of the earth?'†   (source)
  • When once the Americans have taken up an idea, whether it be well or ill founded, nothing is more difficult than to eradicate it from their minds.†   (source)
  • Whatever less valuable fruits had been produced in this uneducated woman by her migratory habits, the great principle of female nature was too deeply rooted ever to be entirely eradicated.†   (source)
  • But unimpressionable natures are not so soon softened, nor are natural antipathies so readily eradicated.†   (source)
  • It is much too certain that certain facts will warrant a theory, which teaches the natural depravity of the genus; but if science could be fairly brought to bear on a whole species at once, for instance, education might eradicate the evil principle.†   (source)
  • "I trust, my young friend," he said, "that the education you have received has eradicated most of those revengeful principles which you may have inherited by descent, for I understand from the expressions of John that you have some of the blood of the Delaware tribe.†   (source)
  • They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.†   (source)
  • When once an opinion has spread over the country and struck root there, it would seem that no power on earth is strong enough to eradicate it.†   (source)
  • But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated 'till this mortal shall put on immortality.'†   (source)
  • Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.†   (source)
  • But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated 'till this mortal shall put on immortality.'†   (source)
  • And like him who, having a garden to weed, does not attempt to eradicate all the bad herbs at once, which would exceed his reach and his strength, but works on one of the beds at a time, and, having accomplish'd the first, proceeds to a second, so I should have, I hoped, the encouraging pleasure of seeing on my pages the progress I made in virtue, by clearing successively my lines of their spots, till in the end, by a number of courses, I should be happy in viewing a clean book, after…†   (source)
  • The guilt stayed with him, ineradicable, like the silent alarm in the fragile chest.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in ineradicable means not and reverses the meaning of eradicable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
  • Yet even in death my dad was ineradicable, no matter how hard I tried to wish him out of the picture—for there he always was, in my hands and my voice and my walk, in my darting sideways glance as I left the restaurant with Hobie, the very set of my head recalling his old, preening habit of checking himself out in any mirror-like surface. ix.†   (source)
  • Our ownership spread slowly over the landscape, but it spread as inevitably as ink along the threads of a linen napkin, as inevitably and, we were led to know, as ineradicably.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in ineradicably means not and reverses the meaning of eradicably. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
  • He was a blustering, intrepid bully who brooded inconsolably over the terrible ineradicable impressions he knew he kept making on people of prominence who were scarcely aware that he was even alive.†   (source)
  • The ineradicable dignity of the true mountaineer, who has always been as good as the best in his environment, preserved Johnnie from any embarrassment, any tendency to shrink or cringe.†   (source)
  • …consistent and her inconsistency and my insecurity were this horrible match for each other, but I still loved her, because all of me was wrapped up in her, because I'd put all my eggs in someone else's basket, and in the end, after 343 days, I was left with an empty basket and this gnawing endless hole in my gut, but then now I find myself deciding to remember her as a good person with whom I had some good times until we, both of us, got ourselves into an ineradicably bad situation.†   (source)
  • He winced at the many tortured nights she had spent in the hospital, drugged or in pain, with the ubiquitous, ineradicable odors of ether, fecal matter and disinfectant, of human flesh mortified and decaying amid the white uniforms, the rubbersoled shoes, and the eerie night lights glowing dimly until dawn in the corridors.†   (source)
  • For twenty years Sophie and Sophie's life—past life and of our time together—and Nathan and his and Sophie's appalling troubles and all the interconnected and progressively worsening circumstances which led that poor straw-haired Polish darling headlong into destruction had preyed on my memory like a repetitive and ineradicable tic.†   (source)
  • Drawn by the fascination of the horror of pain and, from within, impelled by that habit of cooperation, that desire for unanimity and atonement, which their conditioning had so ineradicably implanted in them, they began to mime the frenzy of his gestures, striking at one another as the Savage struck at his own rebellious flesh, or at that plump incarnation of turpitude writhing in the heather at his feet.†   (source)
  • It seemed to him that he could see himself being hunted by white men at last into the black abyss which had been waiting, trying, for thirty years to drown him and into which now and at last he had actually entered, bearing now upon his ankles the definite and ineradicable gauge of its upward moving.†   (source)
  • But her memory specialized in misdemeanors and offenses, which were as ineradicable from her brain as the patrician wrinkle was between her eyes, and her dissatisfaction was an element and a part of nature.†   (source)
  • He tore at the spot with frantic nails; he burned his neck to a peeled blister with carbolic acid—but the spot, as if fed by some ineradicable leprosy in his blood, remained.†   (source)
  • …pool attached by a narrow umbilical water-cord to the next pool which the first pool feeds, has fed, did feed, let this second pool contain a different temperature of water, a different molecularity of having seen, felt, remembered, reflect in a different tone the infinite unchanging sky, it doesn't matter that pebble's watery echo whose fall it did not even see moves across its surface too at the original ripple-space to the old ineradicable rhythm thinking Yes, we are both Father.†   (source)
  • …wanted there; I can imagine how he did it—the calculation, the surgeon's alertness and cold detachment, the exposures brief, so brief as to be cryptic, almost staccato, the plate unaware of what the complete picture would show, scarce-seen yet ineradicable: —a trap, a riding horse standing before a closed and curiously monastic doorway in a neighborhood a little decadent, even a little sinister, and Bon mentioning the owner's name casually—this, corruption subtly anew by putting into…†   (source)
  • The traces of superstition remained in him long after, and were almost ineradicable.†   (source)
  • This seal had been stamped upon him again, and ineradicably, on his second return from the Wild, when the long famine was over and there was fish once more in the village of Grey Beaver.†   (source)
  • This did not preclude the immediate discovery that she was some years younger than her visitor, and that under her showiness, her ease, the aggression of her dress and voice, there persisted that ineradicable innocence which, in ladies of her nationality, so curiously coexists with startling extremes of experience.†   (source)
  • Granted that Percy Blakeney was dull-witted, but in his slow-going mind, there would still be room for that ineradicable pride of a descendant of a long line of English gentlemen.†   (source)
  • For was this not an ineradicable stain which was likely to defile all—himself, his fiancee, Bella, Myra, his parents—and perhaps cost them their position here in Lycurgus society?†   (source)
  • Will it be believed that, after Aglaya's alarming words, an ineradicable conviction had taken possession of his mind that, however he might try to avoid this vase next day, he must certainly break it?†   (source)
  • But the curious thing was that he had never learnt to speak French passably, and he kept in his shabby clothes bought at La Belle Jardiniere an ineradicably English appearance.†   (source)
  • Reputations of that sort, even when they're true, are always based upon other people's ideas"; he would reflect that this legend—even if it were authentic—was something external to Odette, was not inherent in her like a mischievous and ineradicable personality; that the creature who might have been led astray was a woman with frank eyes, a heart full of pity for the sufferings of others, a docile body which he had pressed tightly in his arms and explored with his fingers, a woman of…†   (source)
  • …himself that his intentions in relation to Roberta were in any way different to those normally entertained by any youth toward any girl for whom he had a conventional social regard, still, now that she had moved into this room, there was that ineradicable and possibly censurable, yet very human and almost unescapable, desire for something more—the possibility of greater and greater intimacy with and control of Roberta and her thoughts and actions in everything so that in the end she…†   (source)
  • He admitted that he was to blame for all, but candidly confessed that he could not bring himself to feel any remorse for his original guilt towards herself, because he was a man of sensual passions which were inborn and ineradicable, and that he had no power over himself in this respect; but that he wished, seriously, to marry at last, and that the whole fate of the most desirable social union which he contemplated, was in her hands; in a word, he confided his all to her generosity of…†   (source)
  • …acquainted with him, she had seen him hundreds of times at her aunt Guermantes's, but she would utter this reply in so icy a tone, with such a hollow sound, that it was at once quite clear that if she did not know the celebrity personally that was because of all the obstinate, ineradicable principles against which her arching shoulders were stretched back to rest, as on one of those ladders on which gymnastic instructors make us 'extend' so as to develop the expansion of our chests.†   (source)
  • I did not feel it my duty to set myself up for a scarecrow amidst this beauty-loving people, but I saw I had got across some ineradicable prejudice, and that it wouldn't do to quarrel with my new friend.†   (source)
  • Thanks to Martha's ineradicable tattling, the news that the Professor had gone to discover a way to the centre of the earth had spread over the whole civilised world.†   (source)
  • This at any rate was the duty with which she found herself confronted—from the moment she admitted to herself that her old friend had still an uneradicated predilection for her society.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uneradicated means not and reverses the meaning of eradicated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Had she known Boldwood's moods, her blame would have been fearful, and the stain upon her heart ineradicable.†   (source)
  • His sister's voice, too, naturally harsh, had, in the course of her sorrowful lifetime, contracted a kind of croak, which, when it once gets into the human throat, is as ineradicable as sin.†   (source)
  • As his curate, his comrade, all would be right: I would cross oceans with him in that capacity; toil under Eastern suns, in Asian deserts with him in that office; admire and emulate his courage and devotion and vigour; accommodate quietly to his masterhood; smile undisturbed at his ineradicable ambition; discriminate the Christian from the man: profoundly esteem the one, and freely forgive the other.†   (source)
  • These were his words; and the impression they have made on me is never to be eradicated.†   (source)
  • Young as he is, that lad's notions of moral rectitude I defy you ever to eradicate."†   (source)
  • …the abuse of Gods name in each severall Person, and in the whole Trinity, with the sign of the Crosse at each name, maketh up the Charm: As first, when they make the Holy water, the Priest saith, "I Conjure thee, thou Creature of Water, in the name of God the Father Almighty, and in the name of Jesus Christ his onely Son our Lord, and in vertue of the Holy Ghost, that thou become Conjured water, to drive away all the Powers of the Enemy, and to eradicate, and supplant the Enemy, &c."†   (source)
  • To the People of the State of New York: A REVIEW of the principal objections that have appeared against the proposed court for the trial of impeachments, will not improbably eradicate the remains of any unfavorable impressions which may still exist in regard to this matter.†   (source)
  • You will as easily believe that this affection may possibly be lessened; nay, I do assure you, contempt will wholly eradicate it.†   (source)
  • There they learn a set of romantic notions of love, and I know not what folly, which this town and good company can scarce eradicate in a whole winter.†   (source)
  • But you know I never could prevail upon you; and when I had taken so much pains to eradicate her headstrong opinions, and to rectify your errors in policy, you know she was taken out of my hands; so that I have nothing to answer for.†   (source)
  • This, it is true, would of itself alone never have been able to eradicate Jones from his bosom; but it was greatly injurious to him, and prepared Mr Allworthy's mind for those impressions which afterwards produced the mighty events that will be contained hereafter in this history; and to which, it must be confest, the unfortunate lad, by his own wantonness, wildness, and want of caution, too much contributed.†   (source)
  • For, brother, it is you—it is your preposterous conduct which hath eradicated all the seeds that I had formerly sown in her tender mind.†   (source)
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