This vast history, to be for future centuries that of the world, a Roman seemed about to quench, about to rase the walls that were to embrace the imperial metropolis of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
"Essays Æsthetical"
George Calvert
It is impossible to rase this natural fortress.
"The Coming Conquest of England"
August Niemann
He gave the headman the right to send a number of messengers, each accompanied by a soldier, to the neighbouring villages and promised him fifty lashes and to rase his village, if the paddlers were not forthcoming.
"Witch-Doctors"
Charles Beadle