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It ends a harrowing "Titanic" - like ordeal which saw passengers dive in lifeboats before their ship made a deathroll into the water.
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Which results in the instant deathroll of the bird (deathroll, as in your death, as the hawk lays there with talons and beak pointed up).
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2003
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Here a man simply made a unit in an unnumbered population, an inconsequent dot in a loosely-compiled deathroll.
The Unbearable Bassington 1870-1916 Saki 1893
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The Republican Party of Minnesota is caught in a gator's deathroll in the DFL swamp right now.
Residual Forces 2008
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