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None record What that look was, none guess: for those who have seen Wronged lovers loving through a death-pang ken,
a not so stunning conclusion youareokok 2004
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His death-pang rent my heart! the insensate mob 10
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She had come to him with no definite purpose; the mere longing to see him had directed her; but the secret hope she had carried with her suddenly revealed itself in its death-pang.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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She had come to him with no definite purpose; the mere longing to see him had directed her; but the secret hope she had carried with her suddenly revealed itself in its death-pang.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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She had come to him with no definite purpose; the mere longing to see him had directed her; but the secret hope she had carried with her suddenly revealed itself in its death-pang.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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As soon as the enemy had fairly departed, I took Hassenein with me, and advanced carefully towards the copse of palm trees, where I found the mangled body of poor Suleiman quite dead, but with the agony of the death-pang still visible on his sunburnt and swarthy features.
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Let it be remembered that as we suffer our chances of victory increase, and that every pain felt by us is a death-pang to the foe.
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He soon rises to the surface, and passes slowly along until the death-pang seizes him, when his appearance is awful in the extreme.
Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Charles W. Sanders
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It was nobly and beautifully reasonable, and discovered in its death-pang this lasting and valuable truth, a heritage for the ages, that reasonableness will not do.
Heretics 1905
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His death-pang rent my heart! the insensate mob 10
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