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  • [Castro tries to recall the phraseology of the dispatches] that thing about communism ceasing to proliferate when we combat it vigorously, or about the case of Cuba -- that unextirpated tumor, he could possibly say -- how to stop it?

    CASTRO SPEECH CLOSING CULTURAL CONGRESS 1968

  • There are many strange historical discoveries which would surprise me more than to learn that the Moorish blood remained in this part of France unextirpated by the victories of Charles Martel; [28] for to a person who knows them only by report and casual observation, the _tout ensemble_ of its inhabitants seems to differ totally from that of the Gascon and the

    Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

  • One father sees his constitutional and unextirpated sensuality coming out in the gluttony, the drunkenness, and the lust of his son; while another sees his pride, his moroseness, his kept-up anger and his cruelty all coming out in one who is his very image.

    Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

  • Nevertheless, she did not convince herself that the dim, vague, unquiet sensation which rankled in her was not a still unextirpated germ of the original faith.

    Evelyn Innes 1892

  • One father sees his constitutional and unextirpated sensuality coming out in the gluttony, the drunkenness, and the lust of his son; while another sees his pride, his moroseness, his kept-up anger and his cruelty all coming out in one who is his very image.

    Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents Alexander Whyte 1878

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