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• The man having retained his spear began stabbing the bird; at last the wounds proving fatal, the Metigew[=e]k gradually descended and reached the earth just as it expired. —  Short Sketches from Oldest America
• The turning proved fatal--it was a blind court, and ended in a small paved square, hemmed in on all sides by the best class houses. —  Under the Rebel's Reign
• The consequence of Walpole's surrender was to himself and his political career fatal--irretrievable. —  A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
• How often that feeling of curiosity has proved fatal--not only to feathered geese Little Bill raised his gun. —  The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains
• To have been recognised by this official would have been fatal--at least to those plotters who did not take to flight. —  The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar

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