The original tribe became extinct about 1854; but their place was supplied by natives of the vicinity, of similar origin.
Such fear of strangers is not even yet extinct in Italy.
They need not detain us now, as they are survivals only, and survivals of ideas which must have been long extinct before Roman history can be said to begin.
This argument, then, maintains that it will be all the same ultimately, and that it is an illusion to imagine that when man is extinct it can possibly matter.
As far as it is possible for science to forecast the future, it is certain that in the end man will fall a victim to his environment, and join the other extinct fauna of the earth.
The book is a natural history of these extinct animals, which flew by means of a single finger.
A human skull, let us say, and some bones of extinct animals, and some chipped flints are all discovered side by side some twenty feet below the level of the soil.
Even his earlier satire is double-edged; and, as must be constantly repeated and remembered, it was always his taste and his endeavour to shoot folly as it flew, to attack existent and not extinct forms of popular or fashionable delusion.
It has been found, with many others like it, among bones of mammoths and other extinct animals, and is therefore held to prove that men and mammoths were contemporaries.
The Talitridae, better known as sandhoppers, can forgo the briny shore and content themselves with the damp foliage of inland forests or casual humidity in the crater of an extinct volcano.
Evidence of extinctmud volcanoes exists through a very wide area in Baluchistan and Seistan.
East of the Missouri River, which is the eastern boundary of the Sioux Reservation, from Bismarck all the way down, the species was practically extinct as early as 1870.
By that time the bison was totally extinct in all the region lying east of the Mississippi River except a portion of Wisconsin, where it survived until about 1830.
Although the species was not totallyextinct on the Qu'Appelle at that time, it was practically so.
A sense of humor not quite extinct made him smile as he devoured pork chops and greasy potatoes and heavy apple pie.
A most respectable but practically extinct body of gentlemen in ruffled shirts, the Old Line Whigs, had likewise met in Baltimore.
That all existing beings are the transformed descendants of a long series of extinct organisms developed in the course of millions of years is proved by comparative anatomy, ontogeny, and paleontology.
On the contrary, the common ancestors of all the anthropoid apes and man are to be looked for in the earlier extinct species of old world apes (Pithecanthropus).
We have no means of determining when Celtic speech became extinct in the petty states of the north which retained their independence longest.
At the present time," observes Dr Hamilton, "the wild cat has become almost extinct in many of the above districts.
The number of trees in this grove has been gradually diminishing, and as no young trees or seedlings occur, the grove will probably become extinct in course of time.
It has also been found in those of Malta along with an extinct pigmy elephant species (E.
The first bone cave systematically explored in England was one at Oreston near Plymouth in 1816, which proved that an extinct species of rhinoceros (R.
Extinct volcanoes are numerous in several of the ranges, e.
Thus at the beginning of the 18th century there seemed a fair chance that Welsh would soon become extinct like Cornish.
The Pleistocene caverns of the Euro-Asiatic continent contain the progenitors of the animals now alive in some parts of the Old World, the extinct forms being closely allied to those now living in the same geographical provinces.
Irish far, but in both cases the spelling is fear (in this respect Scottish Gaelic goes hand in hand with Manx and the almost extinct Irish of Down).
Hitchcock to have belonged to an extinct batrachian; but Dr.
Most of the collecting was at Pusisama, on the southern beach and on Ulo Crater, an extinct volcano at the middle of the island.
Kolombangara, formed from an extinct volcano, is about 18 miles in diameter and nearly circular.
The river Derwent rises in Langstrath valley, Borrowdale, in which is Eagle Crag, so named from its having been the haunt of a bird that is now extinct in Cumberland.
If so is she extinct and can never attend a third?
The animal is now extinct in the country, nor has it ever been mentioned in any of the historical annals of Carniola.
As for the conclusions educed from the presence of the horns of the reindeer (hesitatingly identified by the late Professor Rolleston), it is now actually proved that this animal was not extinct in Scotland before the twelfth century.
Not a single shell seems to have become extinct during the last six thousand years.
In short, she was the last high priestess of a cult which became extinct at her death.
We knew that the flowers represented here, were a species of the extinctsacred Lotus.
The bishop dead, all confidence lost in the intercessions of the Church, God's mercyextinct as it would seem, withdrawn from the land under infidel rule!
I shall have to go somewhere then; I shan’t become extinct anyway.
We know little of the history of the extinct civilizations which preceded the culture of the classic ages, and no nation has, in modern times, spontaneously emerged from barbarism, and created for itself the arts of social life.
The period when the ur and the schelk became extinct is not known.
This lake, about six miles in circuit, occupies one of the craters of an extinct volcanic range, and the surface of its waters is about nine hundred feet above the sea.
It has been said that stone weapons are not found in Sicily, except in certain caves half filled with the skeletons of extinct animals.
The cappercailzie, Tetrao urogallus, the finest of the grouse family, formerly abundant in Scotland, had become extinct in Great Britain, but has been reintroduced from Sweden.
He believes that it became extinct before the discovery of the continent by Europeans; but, he says, no satisfactory reason for the extinction has yet been given.
He had heard of it; but, possessed of the belief that the horse was extinct when Europeans came to this continent, he was not inclined to accept Dudley's statement as true.
With him the title became extinct for about two hundred and fifty years; then Lord Courtenay, a descendant of the Powderham branch of Courtenays, established his claim to the earldom.
The title became extinct in the Wars of the Roses, for the family suffered beyond recovery, and the last Lord Bonville had the overwhelming grief of losing his only son and grandson in the Battle of Wakefield.
Occasionally a nondescript representative of the almost extinct races may be observed, disillusioning the mind of the beholder of whatever romantic notions he may have imbibed from the pages of Fenimore Cooper.
Are the fires of the sun extinctin the regions of space?
