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  • The death-agonies of teaching occurred in the l960s.

    Bill Sweetland: Education in Chicago: Binge Drinking Reveals a Desperate Boredom With College 2009

  • We are witnessing its death-agonies, for when this bill becomes a law, if unhappily it becomes law, there is no longer any workable Constitution to keep the Congress within the limits of its constitutional powers.

    Sound Politics: Neal Starkman Wants To Help The Republicans 2006

  • But the force of its attack knocked him to the ground, and its death-agonies jerked the spear out of his hands.

    Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • But the force of its attack knocked him to the ground, and its death-agonies jerked the spear out of his hands.

    Beyond World's End Lackey, Mercedes 2000

  • Just the one picture did it'the one of the six-year-old girl still twisted in her death-agonies ....

    Burning Water Lackey, Mercedes 1989

  • And at last they were sliding down the outer domes, stumbling over dead, dry soil, running for the hills as behind them, roaring its death-agonies to the darkening sky, Thalarion became a mighty, raging inferno ....

    Hero Of Dreams Lumley, Brian 1986

  • It Was as if the voice that the cold beast had lacked outside Was shouting its death-agonies here.

    The Weird Of The White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

  • It Was as if the voice that the cold beast had lacked outside Was shouting its death-agonies here.

    The Weird of the White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

  • Music is all-powerful to awaken the one, but powerless to abate the other; and the eyes that weep over the pathetic strains of "Lochaber" can gaze without a tear upon the death-agonies of a slaughtered friend.

    A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder James De Mille

  • For a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold -- then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and, in her violent and now final death-agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated.

    Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill

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