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By bottling water and then shipping it from here to kingdom-come, because it's now packaged in a thinner and "100% recyclable" bottle -- if it sits in a landfill, a trench, or a field -- it doesn't make it "eco!"
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Obama will be pursued 'til kingdom-come by angry LGBT voters at every event.
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With top "anti-racists" and hate crime unit police officers filling up message board from here to kingdom-come with hate messages, I feel somewhat left out.
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With top "anti-racists" and hate crime unit police officers filling up message board from here to kingdom-come with hate messages, I feel somewhat left out.
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What I do want to say is that even if Roget's food definition is bogus, I would argue from here to kingdom-come that food and eating is by definition spiritual.
Verena von Pfetten: How The Secret Got Me A Dinner Reservation 2008
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Ready to thank God again, as when her babe was born to her; leaping (as at kingdom-come) at a wandering syllable of Gospel for her lost one.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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She had but to open her jaws, as it were, and she might bring a second earthquake on the city — batter it into kingdom-come — with the Ajuda palace and the Necessidades, the churches, and the lean, dry, empty streets, and Don John, tremendous on horseback, in the midst of Black Horse Square.
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Tell him he'll be everlasting blasted in kingdom-come if he don't act clean and hold on.
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The live stock, I hear, went without water for three whole days, and the poultry would all have been in kingdom-come if Sing Lo, in choosing a few choice birds for his private consumption, hadn't happened to leave the run-door unlatched ....
The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912
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Larmy had a pleasant social chat with Karl Marx, and had the spirits hunting all over the kingdom-come for Tom Paine and Murat.
In Our Town William Allen White 1906
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