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With many other fisheries teetering on the brink, these new insights could prove vital.— New Scientist - Earth
In other cases, borrowers who appear to be pushed to the brink are being offered deals that forgive 20 to 70 percent of credit card debt.— Reflector - Latest Headlines from The Daily Reflector
Beyond the brink was a swirl of broken water--a spent breaker, crashing in, streaked with irresistible current and flecked with hissing fragments Adjectives which connote noise are unavoidable.— Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.
Fred Davis quickly leaped to the brink, and wildly shouted Frank Merriwell!— Frank Merriwell's Chums
Beyond the cataclysm's brink, the multitude, too dazed to think, Behold the red waves rise and--sink into the smoldering gloom V The fire has swept the waterfront and burned the Mission down, The business section--swallowed up, and wiped out Chinatown-- Full thirty thousand homes destroyed, Nob Hill in ashes lies, And ghastly skeletons of steel on Market Street arise.— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two

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