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However it is more fitting if it was named the Extinguished Lying Corset.
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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
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End of the Stairs by Iraqi poet, Nazik Al-Mala'ikah my translation: Extinguished days have passed
Thursday, June 21, 2007 As'ad 2007
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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
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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
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Extinguished candles of black wax were arranged with strange symmetry along the red granite floor.
Conan The Hunter Moore, Sean A. 1994
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$The Slave-Trade, Domestic and Foreign; $ Why it Exists, and How it may be Extinguished (1853). 8vo.
Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose
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Extinguished by tradition -- a tradition against which their earlier years only had won modern emancipation.
The Fortieth Door Mary Hastings Bradley
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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.
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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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