When the affections have been painfully and violently uprooted from earth, then first is the mind sufficiently free from the bias of passion and base attachments to be instructed and illuminated with profit in the things concerning its peace, and to be prepared for the replanting of the affections in the soil of Heaven.

His two engrossing objectsif objects, indeed, he may be said to have possessedwere extortion and the uprooting of the last vestiges of civilization and law; his instruments, the dagger and the lash; his amusement, the torture of unwitting offenders; his serious occupation, the shuffling of cards.

Big trees are sometimes uprooted during forest storms so that they fall on younger trees and cripple and deform them.

Who sees the meaning of the flower uprooted in the ploughed field?