wasting-away

Stalin, Hitler, Mao, the whole revolting list but the capitalists also suppress the indignant, angry, or resigned & wasting-away poor

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Stalin, Hitler, Mao, the whole revolting list but the capitalists also suppress the indignant, angry, or resigned & wasting-away poor

eric chaet – central bankers save big gambler buddies! « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

It cheered and encouraged them that their intrepid leader was crippled by love for his unhappy, wasting-away son.

The Fourth Hand Irving, John, 1942- 2001

Despite his shit-eating dog, his obsession with fame, his wasting-away thinness, and his problem-ridden son — and, on top of everything, his inconceivable obliviousness to his cheeks-of-steel “assistant” — in the pioneer territory of hand-transplant surgery, Dr. Nicholas M. Zajac remained the man in charge.

The Fourth Hand Irving, John, 1942- 2001

Moreover some cruel grief seemed to have suddenly accelerated her slow wasting-away.

The Fortune of the Rougons ��mile Zola 1871

Actual outrage might drive some of these tribes to resistance; but, under the slow wasting-away of their means of subsistence, and the gradual pressure of the settlements, they are, and are likely to remain, wholly passive, accepting their fate, and sinking to the lowest point of human misery without a single heroic effort.

The Indian Question (1874) Francis Amasa Walker 1868

It is not such a cry as comes from those who are suddenly hurled out of life, but a slow, grinding, horrible wasting-away.

New Tabernacle Sermons 1867

We were driving back down Park ­Avenue, from yet another doctor who had told him that he could do ­nothing for him, the neuropathy of his limbs, the stenosis of his back, his prostate condition, his consti­pation, the ­wasting-away of his muscles, the crooked spine that was pushing his chin down to his chest.

The Guardian World News 2010

We were driving back down Park ­Avenue, from yet another doctor who had told him that he could do ­nothing for him, the neuropathy of his limbs, the stenosis of his back, his prostate condition, his consti­pation, the ­wasting-away of his muscles, the crooked spine that was pushing his chin down to his chest.

The Guardian World News 2010

A little kid helpfully suggests a junk food diet to a wasting-away

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