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But I was a younger son, and by my father's will, made upon his death-bed,
The Diamond Coterie Lawrence L. Lynch
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An 'the nicht when we stood roun' my father's death-bed,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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I saved the life of that marine; and, when you come to lie, like me, on your death-bed,
The Two Admirals James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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10 The folk-prince of Geatmen, is fast in his death-bed,
Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Lesslie [Translator] Hall
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Oh, Fareham, "she said, growing suddenly calm and grave, and with something of that tender maternal manner with which she had soothed and controlled him while he had but half his wits, and when she feared he might be lying on his death-bed,
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