Citations:roots


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * She afterwards continued her work, whilst the young man went into the garden and appeared busily employed in digging and pulling up roots.
 * I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption, but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots which I gathered from a neighbouring wood.