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Examples
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Then a spadeful of earth was dropped upon his chest and he was dead-living dead.
Chapter 7 1913
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Then a spadeful of earth was dropped upon his chest and he was dead-living dead.
Chapter 7 1911
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So I will shake off this ague-warm feeling, and this dead-living lethargy, and ask you how you are, and where you are, and how our friends are. '
The Life of John Clare Martin, Frederick, 1830-1883 1865
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So I will shake off this ague-warm feeling, and this dead-living lethargy, and ask you how you are, and where you are, and how our friends are. '
The Life of John Clare Frederick Martin 1856
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