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And trade is so bad that the Holiday at all events must take place there, for the masters themselves are extinguishing their furnaces.

From Sybil, or the Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

There are characters in Dickens which are extinguishing the foibles which they embody, and pages of Thackeray which kill the affectations they depict.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various