The question that continually occurs to me is, when shall those beings who justly claim superiority of understanding, and thence a right to direct the world, find some simple and easy mode of convincing the mistaken, and by conviction of Eradicating error?
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
He is a great friend of mankind, as he does more toward Eradicating mice and other nocturnal depredators than all the rat-catchers in the land.
"The Human Side of Animals"
Royal Dixon
Vaguely she wondered at her uncle's apparent hostility to the Cardigans; she was as vaguely troubled in the knowledge that until she should succeed in Eradicating this hostility, it must inevitably act as a bar to the further progress of her friendship with Bryce Cardigan.
"The Valley of the Giants"
Peter B. Kyne