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Death-bed conversions, which used to be common, aren't anymore, and Hitchens remains defiant in his beliefs.
Deepak Chopra: The Atheist's Mistake Deepak Chopra 2011
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Death-bed conversions, which used to be common, aren't anymore, and Hitchens remains defiant in his beliefs.
Deepak Chopra: The Atheist's Mistake Deepak Chopra 2011
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We must not forget, how being charg'd by some on his Death-bed for begetting many Children on a Concubine which he kept, he protested, that in his Conscience he kept her in the notion of a Wife, though such his cowardliness, that he would rather confess Adultery, than own
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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Death-bed repentances are realities, but I am inclined to think that they are very rare.
Letters to His Friends Forbes Robinson
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The reader may then decide for himself whether this treatise should not still bear the title, "At the Death-bed of Darwinism."
At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers Eberhard Dennert
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Death-bed promises should be broken as lightly as they are seriously made.
Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926
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Death-bed promises should be broken as lightly as they are seriously made.
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Saturday, -- baking day, -- that couldn't be it; and she gazed at the little dimity-curtained window and at the picture of the Death-bed of Calvin, and wondered what was the matter.
Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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Let him say a prayer then, if he knows one, for it's all over with him, and he is on his Death-bed.
Perils of Certain English Prisoners Charles Dickens 1841
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Christian Sabbath; The Death-bed of a Modern Free-thinker; 4,000 copies.
History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. Rufus Anderson 1838
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