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Examples
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A horror ran through the boughs; the thousands of leaves were jarred by the death-strokes; and the top of it rocked like a splendid plume too rudely treated in a storm.
Bride of the Mistletoe James Lane Allen 1887
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On the miserable kerne fell the death-strokes stiff and stern,
The Bon Gaultier Ballads Theodore Martin 1862
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Had three death-strokes been dealt on some suffering creatures, with the same sudden and terrible certainty?
Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time Wilkie Collins 1856
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You speak of the tempest within the breast: I know at this moment, if you do not, that years of imprisonment, or a hundred death-strokes, are mercy compared to it.
The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance Harriet Martineau 1839
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"The most powerful and secret of all the death-strokes of the
The Voice on the Wire Eustace Hale Ball
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