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But I also think these price rises (and the resulting drive to make them seem value-added with back-up features, etc) are the death-throes of the comic as a monthly direct market periodical, so whadda-I-know?
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A woman about to die was spotted in her nightshirt sitting on the branch of an apple tree not far from her home precisely at the moment when she herself was inside, starting her last death-throes.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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The article might have been better titled, “The death-throes of Montreal yuppies-cum-new-parents and their disposable income.”
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A woman about to die was spotted in her nightshirt sitting on the branch of an apple tree not far from her home precisely at the moment when she herself was inside, starting her last death-throes.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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A woman about to die was spotted in her nightshirt sitting on the branch of an apple tree not far from her home precisely at the moment when she herself was inside, starting her last death-throes.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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And who knows what the death-throes of the regime would have been like?
Notable & Quotable 2011
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A woman about to die was spotted in her nightshirt sitting on the branch of an apple tree not far from her home precisely at the moment when she herself was inside, starting her last death-throes.
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Impassive, the eyestalks watched his death-throes as the water turned red.
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Wearing a straw boater, well before May 1st, to say nothing of Memorial Day, I, a black man with a fascination many condemn as bizarre at best, could present both, vestigial evidence to the contrary, as the death-throes of an elegant but unfairly exclusive epoch, past at last, and over forever.
Michael Henry Adams: Thomas Hoving, Wendy Burden and the End of Elite Privelige? 2010
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Wearing a straw boater, well before May 1st, to say nothing of Memorial Day, I, a black man with a fascination many condemn as bizarre at best, could present both, vestigial evidence to the contrary, as the death-throes of an elegant but unfairly exclusive epoch, past at last, and over forever.
Thomas Hoving, Wendy Burden and the End of Elite Privelige? 2010
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