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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Ineradicable

Ineradicable as sin.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ineradicable, like some persistent vegetable growth, because its seed is an element of the very soil out of which it springs.
—Walter Pater