"Exterminated" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... expect that that real task will be partially carried out, or at least begun, which is effected, not by money, but by labor; that weak drunkards who have lost their health, unlucky thieves, and prostitutes who are still capable of reformation, should be saved? All evil may not be exterminated, but there will arise some understanding of it, and the contest with it will not be police methods, but by inward modes,—by the brotherly intercourse of the men who perceive the evil, with the men who do not perceive it because they ...
— What To Do? - thoughts evoked by the census of Moscow • Count Lyof N. Tolstoi
... with 1842, yet it was only those animals killed in the cold months whose pelts were suitable for the fur business. The largest number of buffalo were killed in the summer months for other purposes; therefore one is not surprised that they were soon exterminated in the Colorado River Valley, where they never were as numerous as on the plains, and apparently never went west of ...
— The Romance of the Colorado River • Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
... especially when the Vicomte de Melun, being suddenly seized by a mortal sickness, sent for all the nobles then in London, and thus spoke: "I grieve for your fate. I, with the prince and fifteen others, have sworn an oath, that, when the realm is his, ye shall all be beggared, or exterminated as traitors whom he can never ...
— Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... FERA. Resident; rare; once abundant, but will probably soon be exterminated; not certain whether Colorado birds ...
— Birds of the Rockies • Leander Sylvester Keyser
... onwards efficiency is hunted and exterminated in every direction; just as it was excluded in the election of representatives, so the representatives laboriously and continuously exclude it from every sort of office and employment under the ...
— The Cult of Incompetence • Emile Faguet
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