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This world was inhabited by creatures of the imagination—delightful beings—too delightful to be real, who, having the merit of being extinguishable at will, never remained to bore him.

From Edgar Saltus: The Man by Saltus, Marie

And idlers, whose curiosity was not extinguishable by wind and sleet, began to press round, and people who had come by the same train stopped on their way out to listen.

From The Benefactress by Elizabeth

Egremont's perishable love, her own prudential forecasts and schemings, were stamped poor, worldly, ignoble, in comparison with this sacred and extinguishable ardour.

From Thyrza by Gissing, George

The fire was easily extinguishable by a willing hand or two, but Tom tried an experiment.

From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.

Since that person had been kin to this woman who was dark with unspent energy, she figured him as being not quite extinguishable by death and therefore still a tenant of the apartment.

From The Judge by West, Rebecca