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Sentences ending with roots

And she was, moreover, genuinely attached to her roots. [9]
All the senses it has are in its roots. [6]
All its intelligence is in its roots. [6]
The impression must have been a deep one; for it was observed, that, when he came down again, his moustache and whiskers had turned visibly white about the roots. [6]
And perhaps the flowers themselves rejoice in the light, and in the silent life that is in their roots. [10]
By digging in calomel freely about their roots? [3]
Cumner's Son stood abashed at first to see this angelic head, so full of light and life, like nothing he had ever seen, and the nerveless, moveless body, like a flower with no roots. [11]
Cannot one enjoy a rose without pulling it up by the roots? [4]

Sentences containing roots two or more times

He has discovered the art of making fire, by which hard and stringy roots can be rendered digestible, and poisonous roots or herbs innocuous. [1]

More example sentences with the word roots in them

On that side where I stood ancient oaks thrust their gnarled roots into the water, and these knees were bridged by treacherous platforms of moss. [9]
Just how far we shall lay bare the unseemly roots themselves is a matter of discretion and taste, and which none of us are infallible. [6]
There's plenty of water and sand, and palmetto roots and palmetto trees, and swamps, and a perfectly wonderful vegetation of vines and plants and flowers. [4]
Fresh green life was springing from the stump of every dead tree; even the rocks afforded sustenance to a hundred roots, a mossy covering and network of thorny tendrils clung closely to them. [10]
But to Nature's tricks with boughs and roots and smaller vegetable growths there is no end. [6]
A smaller stream trickled over the cliff and built up an isolated pyramid about thirty feet high, which has the semblance of a mass of large gnarled and knotted vines and roots and stems intricately twisted and woven together. [5]
It was almost too much for the poor geranium on which it fell, and it looked at one minute as if the roots would be laid bare, and perhaps the whole plant be washed out of the soil in which it was planted. [6]
The nuns were to be pulled up by the roots, so to say, on the day specified, and without postponement, and to be transferred to a house prepared for them at Massa, a few miles down the promontory, and several hundred feet nearer heaven. [4]
Its roots are thus inextricably entangled with those of self-love and bleed as mandrakes were said to, when pulled up as weeds. [6]
In addition to this, the sense of having been pulled up by the roots grew upon me. [9]
The roots forced themselves down into the worm's person, and rearward along through its body, sucking up the creature's juices for sap; the worm slowly died, and turned to wood. [5]
We struck into the woods and entered upon a rough time, stumbling over roots, getting tangled in vines, and torn by briers. [5]
Her ancestors were the very roots of Manhattan. [9]
Lower down in the valley sprang a brooklet of which he knew, and hard by it grew various herbs and roots, with which he had often allayed his hunger. [10]
I leaped on the trunk and made my way along it, stepping over him, until I reached and hid myself in the great roots of the tree on the bank above. [9]
The size of the hole seemed to be determined by the reach of the roots of the tree. [4]
And then in the fragrant hill pasture there were beds of wintergreen with red berries, tufts of columbine, roots of sassafras to be dug, and dozens of things good to eat or to smell, that I could not resist. [4]
The fact is, that gardening is the old fable of perpetual labor; and I, for one, can never forgive Adam Sisyphus, or whoever it was, who let in the roots of discord. [4]
They sprang away, stumbling over roots and among vines in the dark, no two plunging in the same direction. [5]
Baboons turn over stones, and scratch up roots with their hands. [1]
She had also seen the scar stretching from the roots of his long brown locks across the whole forehead to the left cheek-bone, that lent the face a martial air. [10]
They might have seen me, though I had kept very still in the twisted roots of the oak, and now I was cramped. [9]
As has been said, she did not intellectualize her reasons, but the core of her resistance was the very essence of an individuality having its roots in a self-respecting and self-controlling inheritance--an element wanting in her sister Lise. [9]
She lived on roots, and on the bread the sick man gave her, and at night she lay down to sleep in a deep dry cleft of the rock that she had long known well. [10]
I fed upon roots, and in my bitterness I dug for the bitterest, loathing the sweeter kind. [5]
Suddenly, as from roots of poisonous fire, flamed up the forgotten truth concerning her. [13]
To remove all roots of bitterness, De la Tour married Madame de Charnise, and history does not record any ill of either of them. [4]
The crash and reverberation of the thunder did not trouble us so much as the swish of the wet branches in our faces and the horrible road, with its mud, tripping roots, loose stones, and slippery rocks. [4]
Dorothea had then retired into the desert of Kolzoum where she was still living in a cave, feeding on herbs, roots, and shell-fish thrown up on the sea-shore. [10]
A string was procured and carefully carried round the trunk, above the spread of the roots and below that of the branches, so as to give the smallest circumference. [6]
Water its roots once in each hour every night--and do it yourself; it must not be done by proxy, and to do it in daylight will not answer. [5]
I pulled one of the stories out by the roots, and left the other--a kind of literary Caesarean operation. [5]
I pulled one of the stories out by the roots, and left the other one--a kind of literary Caesarean operation. [5]
In the hearts of such hardened men there are sometimes roots of sentiment that you wouldn't suspect. [4]
But the roots of my hair seemed to have taken fire. [9]
In our pictures of life, we must show the flowering-out of terrible growths which have their roots deep, deep underground. [6]
But he came of a stock which had for generations thrust its roots into the crevices of granite, and was not easily killed by steam-engines. [9]
When at last nothing was left but the roots in the tub of earth, I perceived that the tree was rising to new life. [10]
They don't think nothing of pulling a shot-tower up by the roots, and belting a Sunday-school superintendent over the head with it--or any other man. [5]
I can go no farther, I cannot, or the horses will plunge into the thicket and the vehicle be shattered on the roots and stones. [10]
Their awful, deep-cut mouths were sternly closed over the long hollow fangs which rested their roots against the swollen poison-gland, where the venom had been hoarding up ever since the last stroke had emptied it. [6]
May Heaven keep me to the old roots and herbs of my forefathers! [4]
What he taught me lies far down, I doubt not, among the roots of my knowledge, but it does not flower out in any noticeable blossoms, or offer me any very obvious fruits. [6]
Jungles of the mangrove tree stood up out of swamps; propped on their interlacing roots as upon a tangle of stilts. [5]
They plucked the long grass and nettles from the tombs, thinned the poor shrubs and roots, made the turf smooth, and cleared it of the leaves and weeds. [12]
There is no literature, ancient or modern, that they do not dig up by the roots and turn over, no history that they do not drag before the club for final judgment. [4]
And it was literally filled with the relics of the man's physical prowess cups for games of all descriptions, heads and skins from the Bitter Roots to Bengal, and masks and brushes from England. [9]
Like a malignant liquid, there crept up through Joel Mazarine's body to the roots of his hair the ancient virus of Cain. [11]
I passed the line around one of them right on the edge of the cut bank, but there was a stiff current, and the raft come booming down so lively she tore it out by the roots and away she went. [5]
Between the Lower Lake and the settlements is an extensive forest, traversed by a cart-path, admirably constructed of loose stones, roots of trees, decayed logs, slippery rocks, and mud. [4]
The roots of it went back to the beginning of our lives; and there was much of sentiment in it, no doubt. [9]
If he trimmed it nicely below, you wouldn't see the roots, he says, and he likes to keep them, and a little of the soil clinging to them. [6]
If Clint was in the wrong I'd kill Greevy jest the same, for Greevy robbed him of all the years that was before him--only a sapling he was, an' all his growin' to do, all his branches to widen an' his roots to spread. [11]
She was alone in the world like a tree without roots, like a leaf blown out to sea, like an unfledged bird that has fallen out of the nest. [10]
Her helpers sat in little circles on the ground; in the midst of each lay a great heap of fresh and dry plants, and in front of each work-woman a number of parcels of the selected roots, leaves, and flowers. [10]
I had no idea,--said the Professor,--until I pulled up my domestic establishment the other day, what an enormous quantity of roots I had been making during the years I was planted there. [6]
And even as I searched the brambles at the top of the run a puff of smoke rose out of them, a bullet burying itself in the roots near Weldon, who fired in return. [9]
If flag horfocers I roots of is booted haside to rankle like a lump o' salt butter in a gallipot, 'ow will a poor Scotch lieutenant win hadvancement an' he be not o' the King's friends? [9]
In the country I have seen the peasants eat roots, and in the city the poor devour the refuse from the houses of the rich. [9]
The roots which hold human life to earth are absorbed before it is lifted from its place. [6]
So many things have been torn up by the roots again that were settled when we left college. [4]
In the end Halliday said to himself, "Anyway it roots up that there's nineteen Hadleyburg families temporarily in heaven: I don't know how it happened; I only know Providence is off duty to-day. [5]
Stripped of the green magnolias and the cane, the banks of clay stood forth in hideous yellow nakedness, save for a lonely stunted growth, or a bare trunk that still stood tottering on the edge of a banks its pitiful withered roots reaching out below. [9]
This is a good place for it: roots and stony ground to break up your stately gait, a region not liable to interruption, only one field and one hut in sight, and they so far away that nobody could see us from there. [5]
But perhaps the glorious flower may strike new roots in the soil of hatred and I, the hapless wretch who water it, may see it. [10]
A dark red flush had mounted his forehead to the roots of his short curly hair. [9]
Like a tree cut deep into its roots, she began to quiver and shake, and her anger weakened into despair. [13]
But if he could deepen the roots of this comedy for Kingsley's benefit--and for the lady's--it was his duty so to do. [11]
She moved on continually; and his weak legs were tangled in the roots of the narrow deer-path. [4]
She used to come to the village with herbs and roots to sell. [4]
It was a charming place in summer, where one could find laurel, and checkerberries, and sassafras roots, and sit in the cool breeze, looking at the mountains across the river, and listening to the murmur of the Deerfield. [4]
I was so certain of this that I quickened my pace and got up with alacrity every time I tumbled down amid the slippery leaves and catching roots, and hurried on. [4]
Presently he climbed cautiously up the bank and took station in the muddy roots of the tree. [9]
I could not but admire the persistence of these zealous plants, which seemed determined to propagate themselves both by seeds and roots, and make sure of immortality in some way. [4]
Ruth culled the blossoms daintily with the tips of her fingers; Ulrich wanted to help, and tore the slender stalks in tufts from the roots by the handful. [10]
As they arrived at the vault-like place in the ground, which would hold many tons of roots, another Chinaman came to the doorway. [11]
It comes up, as a Southern seed, dropped by accident in one of our gardens, finds itself trying to grow and blow into flower among the homely roots and the hardy shrubs that surround it. [6]
A long, bronze arm reached out from above, and a painted face glowered at us from the very roots where Weldon had lain. [9]
These little paths are full of pitfalls among the roots and stones; and, nimble as the deer is, he sometimes breaks one of his slender legs in them. [4]
Denisov, the esaul, and Petya rode silently, following the peasant in the knitted cap who, stepping lightly with outturned toes and moving noiselessly in his bast shoes over the roots and wet leaves, silently led them to the edge of the forest. [2]
But Brydon slipped and fell; the roots of a tree bore him down, and he was gone beneath the logs! [11]
A thousand kindly and courteous acts,--a thousand faces that melted individually out of my recollection as the April snow melts, but only to steal away and find the beds of flowers whose roots are memory, but which blossom in poetry and dreams. [6]
The way was also exceedingly steep in places, and what with roots, and logs, and slippery rocks and stones, it was a desperate climb for the horses. [4]
The docks have almost gone to seed; and their roots go deeper than conscience. [4]
I saw with a wicked delight that the shot had told, for the Celebrity blushed to the roots of his hair, while Miss Trevor dropped three or four stitches. [9]
Joan sat on a natural seat formed by gnarled great roots of the Tree. [5]
She was sorting a heap of dark and light-colored roots, which lay in her lap. [10]
I had taken a bow from one of our guards; with this we obtained food, and when no game was to be found we lived on roots, fruits and birds' eggs. [10]

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