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Extinct Species [since the time of man]

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The dodo, great auk, quagga, sea-cow, and white rhinoceros.

Getting very rare: the bison, the Carolina paraket, the giraffe, and the passenger pigeon once common enough.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Experto Crede
Explosion
Exponent
Exposé (French)
Express Train
Expressed Oils
Expression
Exquisite
Extensive
Exter
Extinct Species [since the time of man]
Extravagantēs Constitutionēs
Extreme Unction
Extremes Meet
Extricate
Exult (Latin)
Eye
Eye-service
Eye-sore
Eye-teeth
Eye of a Needle