These were cut, as if with a punch, by means of the teeth of the extirpator. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885] Reference
He sends him six choice Ispahan melons, such as are not to be found every day, and requests him, as he values his beard, to give him an unlimited permission to drink wine; for the doctors assure him if he does not take it in abundance, he will not have long to be the scourge and extirpator of the enemies of the true faith. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
Mr. Newman says, that undue credit has been claimed for Christianity as the foe and extirpator of slavery. From Wordnik.com. [The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic] Reference
The third from the second by Râma, the extirpator of the heroes and royal races (great rising of the people). From Wordnik.com. [Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities] Reference
A bloody supporter of Cromwell, the murderer of the Bishop of Ross, and extirpator of the native Irish, he had the wit to turn with the times, and under Charles II to exchange the rusty broadsword of. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
It had taken too deep root -- had spread its fibres into a region too rank and stimulating not to baffle any ordinary diligence on the part of the extirpator, even if he had been industrious and sincere. From Wordnik.com. [Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story] Reference
Ceaselessly the Popes persecuted them, and when at last in Sigismund of Hungary an ardent extirpator visited the land there came about a terrible result, which has made Bosnia so different from other Serbian territories. From Wordnik.com. [The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1] Reference
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