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  • However it is more fitting if it was named the Extinguished Lying Corset.

    Medal Finalists Announced 2008

  • Extinguished by this great creature, he sneaked to his dressing – room, and there remained shut up until he rode out to dinner, with Mrs Merdle, in her own handsome chariot.

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • End of the Stairs by Iraqi poet, Nazik Al-Mala'ikah my translation: Extinguished days have passed

    Thursday, June 21, 2007 As'ad 2007

  • Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.

    Essays 2007

  • Extinguished in the grass, the fish proved to be quite edible, if a little crispy round the edges, and a tolerably good supper, with the addition of bread and beer.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • Extinguished candles of black wax were arranged with strange symmetry along the red granite floor.

    Conan The Hunter Moore, Sean A. 1994

  • $The Slave-Trade, Domestic and Foreign; $ Why it Exists, and How it may be Extinguished (1853). 8vo.

    Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose

  • Extinguished by tradition -- a tradition against which their earlier years only had won modern emancipation.

    The Fortieth Door Mary Hastings Bradley

  • Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed, if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.

    Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work 1904

  • Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed, if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.

    Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900

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