If the uprooted tree had pitched on our rock, it would have upset it, and crushed us beneath.
"Adventures of a Young Naturalist"
Lucien Biart
Historians, who have no shadow of sympathy with the old religion, are agreed that it was uprooted by means more horrible than have ever, perhaps, been employed in England before or since.
"A Short History of England"
G. K. Chesterton
He did not refrain from telling how he had been uprooted and torn this way and that.
"Atlantis"
Gerhart Hauptmann