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Rejoice, light of the Baals! your Suffet has exterminated the ravenous hounds!

From Salammbo by Flaubert, Gustave

"Therefore vaccination has exterminated smallpox," say the disciples of Jenner.

From Nature Cure by Lindlahr, Henry

Modern progress, except where it has exterminated them, has scarcely touched the habits of bird or animal; so almost up to the very houses of the metropolis the nightingale yearly returns to her old haunts.

From Garden-Craft Old and New by Sedding, John D.

But most of it would be fitly discussed only among physicians and biologists: here I will say only this: Science has exterminated, at least among civilised nations, witch-manias. 

From Scientific Essays and Lectures by Kingsley, Charles

Man has exterminated the solitaire, as well as other birds nearly allied, formerly denizens of the Isle of Bourbon.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.