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Without saying so directly, he succeeds in implying that the "hundreds of millions of people" supposedly pulled out of poverty, arising like so many Lazarii out of their grave-clothes, have recognized and feted the messiah of free trade responsible for their revivification.
The Zen Tiger: India 's Elections And The Magic Of Fareed Zakaria 2009
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The angels there attesting; shroud with grave-clothes resting.
Christ is Risen! Alleluia, Alleluia! elena maria vidal 2009
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The angels there attesting; shroud with grave-clothes resting.
Archive 2009-04-01 elena maria vidal 2009
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There, where, like Lazarus rising, his grave-clothes half unwound
Perfumer Yann Vasnier Captures the Scent of Baudelaire Michelle Krell Kydd 2008
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There, where, like Lazarus rising, his grave-clothes half unwound
Archive 2008-10-01 Michelle Krell Kydd 2008
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These cursed grave-clothes have surely a spell on them, every one flies from me. —
Ivanhoe 2004
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I burst in upon them, and the fashion of my grave-clothes, as well as the clanking of my chains, made me more resemble an inhabitant of the other world than of this.
Ivanhoe 2004
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I return in my grave-clothes, a pledge restored from the very sepulchre, and every one I speak to vanishes as soon as they hear my voice! —
Ivanhoe 2004
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And the sharks and the dogfish their grave-clothes unbound,
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His soul had arisen from the grave of boyhood, spurning her grave-clothes.
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