Men in their better mind may be ready enough to listen to specious, or even not very specious, schemes of reform that hold out a promise of Extirpating misery, and in their worse mind they may be quite as prone to think that if everybody had his own, there would be fewer rich; but they are not likely to believe we can get on without law or government of any sort.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
It must aim at multiplying, instead of Extirpating, the private owners of land, and at nursing by all wise and legitimate means the growth of a numerous occupying proprietary.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Throughout the seventeenth century little progress was made in Extirpating the savage Indians even in regions as close to Buenos Aires as Entre Rios and Uruguay.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson