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...ir commencement saw Madras in the hands of the French--Calcutta at the mercy of the Nabob of Bengal--and English influence apparently at the point of extinction in India--and which ended in the final triumph of the English, both in Bengal and Madras. There were yet great battles to be fought, great efforts to be made, before the vast Empire of India fell altogether into Br...

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...Tennessee Coneflower or a Black Outhouse Hollyhock-both of which bordered on extinction. They were as ineffable as the very universe she resided in an... ...private and personal experience with him that no one had shared since Aten's extinction in Egypt many thousands of years earlier. From her most selfis...

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...that is made possible for it. His innermost decision seems to rest on the extinction of the ability to say Thou. The Buddha knows the saying of the... ...ensations, there dwells the world and the beginning of the world and the extinction of the world and the wa.y that leads to the extinction of the w... ... their apprehew;ible but not comprehensible sense. The beginning and the extinction of the world are not in me; but they are also not outside me; t...

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...-withdrawn into a wonderous depth,” hurrying as if with headlong malice to extinction, and alienated by every feature from the new as- pects of life t... ...of Paris or of Naples, he could not have better provided for their virtual extinction. I ask, Does no action at common law lie against the promoters o... ... so much engage my profoundest sympathies. Wordsworth’s fine sonnet on the extinction of the Venetian republic had not then been published, else the l... ...h in tragedy, passed through all the stages of growth, maturity, and final extinction within one single revo- lution of the moon. For all the rebel mo... ...his name. He was of a class now annually declining (and I hope rapidly) to extinction. Thanks be to God, in this point at least, for the dignity of hu...

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... things. If nothing larger than a World’s Departure from a hinge, Or Sun’s extinction be observed, ’T was not so large that I Could lift my forehead f...

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... trapped themselves at various intervals of time, and dur- ing the gradual extinction of their eighty-one lives having emitted cries enough to establi...

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...d so, as everything grows grayer and quieter about him, and slopes towards extinction, these unfaded visions accompany his sad de- cline, and follow h... ...man and the nobler his purposes, the more will he be tempted to regret the extinction of his powers and the deletion of his person- ality. To have liv... ...ship. Closely following on this epoch of migratory lanthorns in a world of extinction, came the era of oil-lights, hard to kindle, easy to extinguish,...

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...wo dare nowise resolve, with Mirabeau, on an instantaneous disbandment and extinction; finds that a course of palliatives is easier. But at least and ... ...l; and has paled the poor lunar light of that Monarchic Club near to final extinction. She, we say, shines supreme, girt with sun-light, not yet with ...

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... We forget that the head of the Holy Roman Empire had been, ever since the extinction of the Swabian line, a mere mark for ambitious princes to shoot ... ...ep that night she saw its brief course repeated, beheld its rapid fall and extinction, and then tracked the course of the sparks that darted from it, ...

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...aillys, for instance, or the d’Herouvilles—left to obscurity tantamount to extinction for want of money, the one power of the time. All which things V...

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... And in his hand, XXII This miracle which saves Himself, himself doth from extinction clutch, By virtue of his worth, contrasting much With brutes and... ...e obscure Lightened; it haunted morn and even-song: Earth of her prodigy’s extinction long, With shudderings and with thrillings, hung unsure. Snapped...

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...eserve the name and titles of the de Lenoncourt and de Givry families from extinction, is to confer these, to- gether with the armorial bearings, by p...

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... T he Countess Gemini was often extremely bored—bored, in her own phrase, to extinction. She had not been extinguished, however, and she struggled bra... ...ind, when her interests were concerned, was agile; she al ready foresaw the extinction of any further brightness in her visit to Rome. Ralph Touchett...

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...interesting in this manner to perceive, so largely developed, the germs of extinction in the so-called pow- erful Anglo-Saxon family. I find them in a...

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...de family from family, brother from brother, upon which we must charge the extinction of traditions and memorials, doubtless abun- dant up to that era... ...ecial visitation would be likely to do more serious mischief in the way of extinction, than many years of general warfare. Secondly, as a fact, perhap...

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...he other, the attempt at absolute negation which was to result in the final extinction of Pyrrhonism. We find in both, it is true, especially in the...

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...was due to the absolute destruction of the people. Whatever causes led to the extinction of the Greenland colonists must have practically resulted in...

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...o not suppose that she was really serious in this. It would have meant the extinction of all hopes of Branshaw Manor for her. Besides she had got it i... ...y, was “doing things”. What then, should they have done? worked out in the extinction of two very splendid personali- ties—for Edward and the girl wer...

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...o trimming of the faculty, but worship does not necessarily cease with the extinction of this of the voraciously carnal. An ideal of country, of Great... ... kissing fingers to him, the rollers shattered up the cliff to have run to extinction to scale him. He seemed in his clear-edged mass King of this bra...

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... Lies exist there only to be extinguished; they wait and cry earnestly for extinction. Think well, meanwhile, in what spirit thou wilt do it: not with... ...hing, clutching:—to the jamming-up, to the pressure, fracture and probable extinction, of the weaker Patriot. (Deux Amis, i. 302.) And so, with such p...

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...ng, clutching:—to the jam- ming-up, to the pressure, fracture and probable extinction, of the weaker Patriot. (Deux Amis, i. 302.) And so, with such p... ...d, from Strasbourg, quite ‘burnt out with liquors,’ and flickering towards extinction. (Dampmartin, Evenemens, i. 144-184.) The Feast of Pikes has dan... ... dare nowise resolve, with Mirabeau, on an instantaneous disband- ment and extinction; finds that a course of palliatives is easier. But at least and ... ...l; and has paled the poor lunar light of that Monarchic Club near to final extinction. She, we say, shines supreme, girt with sun-light, not yet with ... ...ke the Moon, had to withdraw then, making some sorrowful obei- sance, into extinction;—or indeed into worse, into lurid half- light, grimmed by the sh...

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... sun is gradually losing its heat, the result of which will in time be the extinction of the human race. Now there is not and cannot be such an instit...

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...us intelligence; not so much on account of the numbers slain, or the total extinction of a powerful ally, as because the position of the Cossack force...

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...s to observe, how Dr. Johnson would be affected. He said, ‘This is a total extinction to their family, as much as if they were sold into captivity.’ U...

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...ined. But we common people do not care if he is restrained to the point of extinction. Probably there will 21 H.G. Wells be nobody who talks or under...

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...ies, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of gov ernment; and thei...

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...nate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to... ...artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class. They are the...

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...fined you, elevated you, developed you? DON JUAN. I never demonstrated the extinction of man- kind. Life cannot will its own extinction either in its ...

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...tness a day of culminating triumph is often paid for by a morrow of sudden extinction. Let us hope it is so. Yet the dawn of that day of retribution m... ...rs, a figure of dread, murmuring with iron lips the final words: Ruin— and Extinction. But enough of this. For our little band there was the awful ang...

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...ef manager of the resistance which the Company made to their own political extinction, and to the letters and petitions I wrote for them, and the conc...

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...e swamp and choking out the cranberry bushes, possibly forcing them toward extinction. Every year the amount of berries in our buckets becomes less. T...