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Examples
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 In fact, he was merely pining for the fjords in a death-like coma.
Hero History: Mon-El | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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In the original Snow White, the Evil Queen attempts to kill porcelain-skinned princess several times, eventually giving her a poisoned apple that puts Snow White into a deep, almost death-like sleep.
Once Upon a Time Tales: When Snow White Met Her Prince Charming 2011
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And yet they both evoke meaning beyond words, the grandeur of classical Italian architecture and painterly gesture in Greenaway's piece; the hushed presence of dark dreams and death-like rooms in Wilson's.
Randall Bourscheidt: Is Roberto Bolle the Most Beautiful Man in the World? Randall Bourscheidt 2010
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Oh, and Lilith is also vampiric, as our hero completely fails to notice when he finds her in a death-like state before he knows who she is and she feeds off him in his sleep to regain her strength.
Archive 2010-07-01 Karen Burnham 2010
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The life of their progress seemed to be slowly hushed, and something death-like to usurp its place.
Weatherwatch: The snow's solemn stillness Tim Radford 2010
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And yet they both evoke meaning beyond words, the grandeur of classical Italian architecture and painterly gesture in Greenaway's piece; the hushed presence of dark dreams and death-like rooms in Wilson's.
Randall Bourscheidt: Is Roberto Bolle the Most Beautiful Man in the World? Randall Bourscheidt 2010
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The anaemic and glacial pace and the death-like bureaucracy continue to allow and, in the case of Monuc and the security council, even help facilitate a deathly regional war.
Eve Ensler: Congo Cancer: My Cancer is Arbitrary. Congo's Atrocities are Very Deliberate. 2010
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Oh, and Lilith is also vampiric, as our hero completely fails to notice when he finds her in a death-like state before he knows who she is and she feeds off him in his sleep to regain her strength.
George MacDonald Completely Loses Me Karen Burnham 2010
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The anaemic and glacial pace and the death-like bureaucracy continue to allow and, in the case of Monuc and the security council, even help facilitate a deathly regional war.
Eve Ensler: Congo Cancer: My Cancer is Arbitrary Congo's Atrocities Are Very Deliberate 2010
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And yet they both evoke meaning beyond words, the grandeur of classical Italian architecture and painterly gesture in Greenaway's piece; the hushed presence of dark dreams and death-like rooms in Wilson's.
Randall Bourscheidt: Is Roberto Bolle the Most Beautiful Man in the World? Randall Bourscheidt 2010
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