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Ah, it is a fine thing to be death-devoted, and freed from all the ills that flesh is heir to!
The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow Upton Sinclair 1923
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The death-devoted she took into her keeping, she seized the work in her own hands.
The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912
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In this dark hour, amid the dread abyfs With fears amaz'd, by horrors cempafs'd ronad F But, O I ill-omen'd, death-devoted heads I
The Lady's Poetical Magazine, Or, Beauties of British Poetry 1781
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I couldn’t believe him of course, and my death-devoted plans continued.
CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988
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I couldn’t believe him of course, and my death-devoted plans continued.
CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988
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Death-devoted head, death-devoted heart,” she sings, gazing at Tristan; and at the last words we hear the tremendous death-or murder-theme (h), a theme whose sinister meaning is afterwards unfolded.
Richard Wagner Runciman, John F 1913
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Death-devoted head, death-devoted heart, "she sings, gazing at Tristan; and at the last words we hear the tremendous death-or murder-theme (_h_), a theme whose sinister meaning is afterwards unfolded.
Richard Wagner Composer of Operas John F. Runciman 1891
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What but a spacious burial-place unwall'd? ") is that of the earth as a great sepulchre; and its lesson is to inculcate on the death-devoted dust, which we call man, the duty of dropping into its kindred dust as quietly and gracefully as possible.
The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes George Gilfillan 1845
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