Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The rate of payment on a policy of life-insurance.
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Examples
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Preventive medicine, public playgrounds, the new health education, school hygiene, city planning, eugenics, housing reform, the child-welfare and country-life movements, the cult of exercise and sport -- these all are helping to lower the death-rate and enrich the life-rate the world over.
The Joyful Heart Robert Haven Schauffler 1921
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Drumtochty was accustomed to break every law of health, except wholesome food and fresh air, and yet had reduced the Psalmist's farthest limit to an average life-rate.
A Doctor of the Old School — Complete Ian Maclaren 1878
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Drumtochty was accustomed to break every law of health, except wholesome food and fresh air, and yet had reduced the Psalmist's farthest limit to an average life-rate.
A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 1 Ian Maclaren 1878
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Drumtochty was accustomed to break every law of health, except wholesome food and fresh air, and yet had reduced the Psalmist's farthest limit to an average life-rate.
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878
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Drumtochty was accustomed to break every law of health, except wholesome food and fresh air, and yet had reduced the psalmist's furthest limit to an average life-rate.
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878
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