Rooted

Examples

• Gabriel started up, and stood rooted to the spot with astonishment and terror; for his eyes rested on a form that made his blood run cold. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Many of the cardinals were of French origin, and their habits and associations were rooted deep at Avignon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If lust is deeply rooted in men and its only expression is evil, I for one should recommend a faith in the millennium. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But deep in the minds of the apes was rooted the conviction that Tarzan was a mighty fighter and a strange creature. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I have advanced to a certain distance, as far as the true and sovereign and undegraded nature of my kind permits; now here I stand rooted. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It must be rooted out, and the community must take charge as a community, to produce, to distribute, as well as to control. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I could only stand rooted to the floor, looking at her in breathless silence. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And priestly government had its own weaknesses as well as its peculiar deep-rooted strength. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There were plant animals, rooted and joined together like plants, and loose weeds that waved in the waters. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the feelings that actuated Evadne were rooted in the depths of her being, and were such in their growth as he had no means of understanding. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And perhaps also indigenous to the Greek soil, rooted deeply there in the time of the world-wide ancient heliolithic culture, were religious dances. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is rooted more strongly in our instincts than in our reason. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Her large black eyes were rooted on me, watching the white change on my face, which I felt, and which she saw. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Deafened by the noise, stifled, choked, and blinded by the dust, they hid their faces and stood rooted to the spot. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He had been walking fast about the room, and he stopped, as if suddenly rooted to one spot. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• That was my Indian Messalina's attribute: rooted disgust at it and her restrained me much, even in pleasure. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• All that is dynamic in human character is in these rooted lusts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• What is to disprove that this tribe, instead of camping under palm groves in Asia, wandered beneath island oak woods rooted in our own seas of Europe? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• What Peggotty had told me now, was so far from bringing me back to the later period, that it rooted the earlier image in my mind. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

Edited by Ivan