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As this class of men is happily disappearing from the country, and giving place to steady and persevering immigrants, the charge of an out-station, when not in the hands of one with the old leaven of improvidence unexterminated, necessarily becomes the probationary lot of a "new chum."
Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Colin Munro
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York and swears he will never return to civilization, told me that when he kept a store in Hanamenu, near Atuona, to serve the bare handful of unexterminated tribesmen there, the people imitated him in everything, his clothes, his gestures, his least-studied actions.
White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900
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A hundred years passed, and still the Vaudois remained unconverted and unexterminated.
The Huguenots in France Samuel Smiles 1858
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As we see some species at present adapted to a wide range of conditions, so we may suppose that such species would survive unchanged and unexterminated for a long time; time generally being from geological causes a correlative of changing conditions.
The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 Charles Darwin 1845
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