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Sentences ending with root

I merely wish to ask the gentleman if the Whigs are the only party he can think of who sometimes turn old horses out to root. [7]
No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. [6]
The crimson sash, the broad diagonal belt of the mounted marshal of a great procession, so cheap in themselves, yet so entirely satisfactory to the wearer, tickle my heart's root. [6]
We eat the root of the Solanum tuberosum and throw away its fruit; we eat the fruit of the Solanum Lycopersicum and throw away its root. [3]
There is a place for one; indeed, it was begun, and then the builders seem to have stopped, with the notion that it would grow itself from such a good root. [4]
When spring came on, the soldiers found a plant just showing out of the ground that looked like asparagus, which, for some reason, they called "Mashka's sweet root. [2]
That spring a new disease broke out among the soldiers, a swelling of the arms, legs, and face, which the doctors attributed to eating this root. [2]
It needed a man of tenacious will to hold a colony together in one spot long enough to give it root. [4]
Vines and lichens grow on the walls: in one place, at the bottom, an orange grove has taken root. [4]
It has made fools of the house of Sellers for generations, and it made something of a fool of me, but took no deep root. [5]

More example sentences with the word root in them

We are largely wasting our energies in petty contrivances instead of striking at the root of the evil. [4]
Last week through visitors also--the only ones we have had --Dr. Root and John Howells. [5]
But Joshua fell upon them and utterly destroyed them, root and branch. [5]
It made him uneasy, and when anxiety had once taken root in his heart it sent its shoots forward and backward, and he remembered many things in which Eva had been different the day before. [10]
Whoever divides two trees which have grown from a single root, she said to herself, destroys at least one; but she would live, would be happy on the highest summit of existence. [10]
She should go to the root of the disease. [9]
The only way to kill it and all similar fancies, and to throw every quack nostrum into discredit, is to root out completely the suckers of the old rotten superstition that whatever is odious or noxious is likely to be good for disease. [6]
I think that this love has existed everywhere, ever since the Bible called it the root of all evil. [5]
Old Roses has the root of the matter in him--and there you have it. [11]
He pointed to the money, and said: "The love of it is the root of all evil. [5]
We, therefore, in the language of the Bible, must "lay the axe to the root of the tree. [7]
This results from the fact that they are truer to the substance of things, to universal human nature, while the French seem to be in great part an imitation, having root neither in the soil of France nor Attica. [4]
After having seen the declining letter of Mr. Colfax, I did not suppose that this vine would run any more, and intended to root it out. [4]
I have said that the system does not strike at the root of the trouble, and I venture to repeat that. [5]
None other than that I would not belie my troth, root out my strong love for him who marches with the legions of the cross in Holy Land, (for O, he is not dead! [5]
But there--what was that gleaming under the two palm-trees which, springing from the same root, had grown together tall and slender--was not that a flight of marble steps leading down to the sea? [10]
It is said that but for the use of this root the destruction of the people in former times by certain imported diseases would have been far greater than it was, and by others it is said that this is merely a fancy. [5]
Again a beautiful tappa cloth was spread for me, and then ten maidens entered, and, sitting in a semi-circle, began to chew a root called kava, which, when sufficiently masticated, they returned into a calabash, water being poured on the result. [11]
He had a sovereign balm for "colds," composed of camomile flowers, boneset, liquorice, pennyroyal and gentian root, which he sold to all comers; and it was not unnatural that a visitor with weak lungs should lodge with him. [11]
Winslow gave him some conserve, washed his mouth, scraped his tongue, which was in a horrid state, got down some drink, made him some broth, dosed him with an infusion of strawberry leaves and sassafras root, and had the satisfaction of seeing him rapidly recover. [3]
The seed of service had, however, taken root in a nature full of fire and light and power, undisciplined and undeveloped as it was. [11]
It consisted of rosin, wine, rad, galangae, juniper berries, the root of the aromatic rush, asphalte, mastic, myrrh, Burgundy grapes, and honey. [10]
This plant took root only in a heart filled with love And his? [10]
Do you not remember how my father offered forgiveness to the officers of the court, and to all the servants, and how he enjoined us to root out every grudge from our hearts on this day? [10]
Was that a remark?--something about a root, a stub in the ground sticking into the back. [4]
When we was passing by the kitchen I fell over a root and made a noise. [5]
Although they had passed through a ceremony, the conviction had never taken root in her that she had been married to Chiltern. [9]
But the root of the matter goes deeper than that. [9]
He had none of that Puritanism which would ruthlessly root out the vines yielding the bad wine. [11]
The root is not the drinking, but the desire to drink. [5]
He had sat next her, and had merely put two and two together--an operation that is probably at the root of most prophecies. [9]
The taro root looks like a thick, or, if you please, a corpulent sweet potato, in shape, but is of a light purple color when boiled. [5]
There is a little plateau on the side of the East Mountain in Rivervale, where there used to stand a shack of a cabin, with a wild sort of garden-patch about it, a tumble-down root fence, all in the midst of brush and briers. [4]
So egotism has its root in the cardinal necessity by which each individual persists to be what he is. [6]
But by-and-by, if it is to have special complex principles as a part of its organization, they must be supplied by the soil;--your pears will crack, if the root of the tree gets no iron,--your asparagus-bed wants salt as much as you do. [6]
Indeed, it is impossible, without a twinge of pity, to behold Howard taking root in Rivington, for we know that sooner or later he will be dug up and transplanted. [9]
Tell me," said he, diving desperately at the root of it, "how does Miss Trevor feel about my getting out? [9]
He nodded, for he saw what she was trying to do, and said: "Also a little of the gentian and orange root three times a day-eh, Dalice? [11]
Perhaps equality is hardly the word to use here, since uniformity is the thing aimed at; but the root of the proposal is in the dogma we are considering. [4]
But that little handful of English officials in India set their sturdy and confident grip upon it, and ripped it out, root and branch! [5]
Arrowhead, the chief, goes to find life again by the well at the root of the tree. [11]
She wished to go mercilessly to the root of the matter, but the notion of what this would imply prevented her. [9]
I have heard from the Spaniards' own lips, that they would like to root us out, exterminate us. [10]
We are descended from desert-lounging Arabs, and countless ages of growth toward perfect civilization have failed to root out of us the nomadic instinct. [5]
It was the first time that I had ever seen it, and the wish came over me to confide something to the good earth that would take root, and sprout, and grow green and high for me. [10]
His dark, mysterious face with its background of abstraction, his unusual life, distinguished presence, and the fact that people of great note sought his conversation, all strengthened the bonds, and deepened her imagination; and imagination is at the root of much that passes for love. [11]
I'm going to dig up this root as soon as it is light enough. [4]
He eulogized Mr. Clay in high and beautiful terms, and then declared that we had deserted all our principles, and had turned Henry Clay out, like an old horse, to root. [7]
In the old civilizations they root themselves like oaks in the soil; men must live in their shadow or cut them down. [3]
Is not a certain Martin Van Buren an old horse which your own party have turned out to root? [7]
Hodder himself had but glanced at a few of them, and to do him justice this abstention had not had its root in cowardice. [9]
Baked beans, rye-and-indian bread (moist, remember), doughnuts and cheese, pie, and root beer. [4]
Will it be believed that the first thing he did was to destroy his Established Church, root and branch? [5]
He had gone at the root, not the trunk. [5]
The "Negro Plot" at New York helped to implant a feeling in me which it took Mr. Garrison a good many years to root out. [6]
How can this ardent yearning take root in my seared soul and grow so vigorously? [10]
Hunt took root and flourished--apparently from the seed planted by the State Tribune. [9]
He, though faithless and a sinner, still bears his love in his heart and you have not been able to root yours up and cast it out. [10]
When I was a youth I used to take all kinds of pledges, and do my best to keep them, but I never could, because I didn't strike at the root of the habit--the desire; I generally broke down within the month. [5]
They will need a very vigilant committee indeed to find its birthplace, and a very strong force to root it out. [6]

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