"As lamps are extinguished from too much oil, so is the mind from too much studying".
But the steely rasp had returned to his voice, and he turned from the window at last, the sickly light of doubt extinguished from his gaze.
It has never quite been able to extinguish from its conscience Khomeini's rallying of the masses against the shah with calls for freedom.
A related question — how life begins after it has been extinguished from a patch of the earth — not only can be answered with confidence, but can even be witnessed in real time.
Under the noses of Scottish Natural Heritage, which likes to be known as the nation's leading conservation body, the Scottish wildcat has all but been extinguished from the Highlands.
As Burlingame put it in a glowing letter to Secretary of State William Seward: "Let this wish, though unexecuted, find worthy record in the archives of his native land, to show that neither self-exile, nor foreign service, nor the incidents of a stormy life could extinguish from the breast of this wandering child of the republic the fires of a truly loyal heart".
"We're the creators of the world's first and only real-flame candle you can light and extinguish from your smartphone," writes the company's co-founder and CEO.
All I know for sure right now is that too soon, too young, a bright light has been extinguished from the world.
As earth-based indigenous people are extinguished from the face of the Earth, it has become increasingly clear that human extinction is an issue we must address in all contexts: moral, philosophical, and scientific.
In an email sent to employees, Juan C. Perez, director of Riverside County Transportation & Land Management Agency, called Damian Meins a "bright light" that had been "extinguished from our world in a most tragic way".
