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I had seen rakes in my day; but here something frantic, some frenzy of self-extermination, some sort of recklessness, had made itself manifest!

From A Reckless Character And Other Stories by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

The new Irish doctrine of self-extermination has given much satisfaction in Ministerial circles.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-12 by Seaman, Owen, Sir