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Sentences ending with extinct

The vital spark was extinct. [6]
But among all the fossils which Cuvier found in the Parisian basin, nothing was more monstrous than the _poissardes_ of the old Revolution, or the _petroleuses_ of the recent Commune, and I fear that the breed is not extinct. [6]
However, the universal testimony of those best qualified to judge, is conclusive that this custom has for many years been almost extinct. [1]
The town was out of danger; the fire was extinct. [10]
No doubt many of my hearers will recognize, in the following passages, arguments they may have heard brought forward with triumphant confidence in behalf of some doctrine not yet extinct. [3]
In 1864 the last man died, in 1876 the last woman died, and the Spartans of Australasia were extinct. [5]
But we have every reason to believe that the breaks in the series are simply the results of many forms having become extinct. [1]
But these breaks depend merely on the number of related forms which have become extinct. [1]
It is prehistoric and extinct. [5]

More example sentences with the word extinct in them

Perhaps I am wrong in implying that alchemy is an extinct folly. [6]
What it held will, perhaps, never be known, until they are dead and gone, and same curious eye lights on an old yellow letter with the fossil footprints of the extinct passion trodden thick all over it. [6]
And this, too, was the origin of that school of scientists called Manologists, whose specialty is the deciphering of the ancient records of the extinct bird termed Man. [5]
It may be very important to show that the champions of this or that set of dogmas, some of which are extinct or obsolete as beliefs, while others retain their vitality, held certain general notions which vitiated their conclusions. [6]
In an extinct variety of the turkey, the top-knot consisted of bare quills surmounted with plumes of down, so that they somewhat resembled the racket- shaped feathers above described. [1]
His ancestors from time immemorial have held the office he now fills, and he even supposes himself to be related to the extinct royal dynasty through the mistress of some one of the Lagides. [10]
The mortmain of theorists extinct in science clings as close as that of ecclesiastics defunct in law. [3]
This means that the moa has not been extinct very long. [5]
I had had the idea that the kangaroo was about extinct in Tasmania and well thinned out on the continent. [5]
Here, also, were the charred bones of some of these extinct animals and of the young of Man's own species, split lengthwise, showing that to his taste the marrow was a toothsome luxury. [5]
The naturalist said that the oddest bird in Australasia was the, Laughing Jackass, and the biggest the now extinct Great Moa. [5]
The gods themselves, that kind of gods, became as extinct as the deities of the Druids, the Greek fates, the terrible figures of German mythology. [9]
This is a significant detail, and is good circumstantial evidence that the moa has been extinct 500 years, since the Maori has himself--by tradition--been in New Zealand since the end of the fifteenth century. [5]
I sometimes tell Rodney at night--it is usually morning--that I feel like an extinct piece of fireworks. [4]
In each great region of the world the living mammals are closely related to the extinct species of the same region. [1]
If there should prove to be one real living free-State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him, and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be extinct variety of the genus Democrat. [7]
The last glimmer of sunshine is extinct, and divine service will soon begin. [10]
Should the family of Cyrus become extinct, the descendants of Hystaspes would have a well-grounded right to the Persian throne. [10]
In some countries it is extinct, in the others it is rare. [5]
It was the influence of his mother that left its permanent impression after the questions and answers of the Assembly's Catechism had faded out, or remained in memory only as fossil survivors of an extinct or fast-disappearing theological formation. [6]
The colony was in such extremity in May, 1610, that it would have been extinct in ten days but for the arrival of Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George Somers and Captain Newport from the Bermudas. [4]
Still, the presumption in favor of poisoning out every spontaneous reaction of outraged nature is not extinct in those who are trusted with the lives of their fellow-citizens. [3]
It seemed as if life were extinct on the huge galley usually swarming with a numerous crew; as if a vessel were about to cast anchor whose sailors had fallen victims to the plague. [10]
A sense of humor not quite extinct made him smile as he devoured pork chops and greasy potatoes and heavy apple pie. [9]
How many hopes, how much triumph and happiness are extinct with that life. [10]
Man himself is extinct, but they may still exist. [5]
I have no doubt that it would become extinct, for all time to come, if we but readopted the policy of the fathers, by restricting it to the limits it has already covered, restricting it from the new Territories. [7]
M. Lartet has described two flutes made out of the bones and horns of the reindeer, found in caves together with flint tools and the remains of extinct animals. [1]
A most respectable but practically extinct body of gentlemen in ruffled shirts, the Old Line Whigs, had likewise met in Baltimore. [9]
Nor should it be forgotten that those regions which are the most likely to afford remains connecting man with some extinct ape- like creature, have not as yet been searched by geologists. [1]
A language, like a species, when once extinct, never, as Sir C. Lyell remarks, reappears. [1]

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