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  • Now, taking a break from his work as the designer of the 25-volume Complete Peanuts, he brings us George Sprott, an 81-year-old local TV personality who will shortly be shuffling off this mortalcoil.

    George Sprott by Seth 2010

  • Ian Fleming, departed this mortalcoil 7 years before I took over Bond, I understand that he really wanted David Niven or Cary Grant, in fact I think at the beginning it was probably offered to Cary Grant.

    Today on Screenhead.com 2008

  • He longed to shuffle off this mortalcoil and embrace, like the Buddha, oblivion, Nirvana, the land of “Being-no-more.”

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • He longed to shuffle off this mortalcoil and embrace, like the Buddha, oblivion, Nirvana, the land of “Being-no-more.”

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • He longed to shuffle off this mortalcoil and embrace, like the Buddha, oblivion, Nirvana, the land of “Being-no-more.”

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • He longed to shuffle off this mortalcoil and embrace, like the Buddha, oblivion, Nirvana, the land of “Being-no-more.”

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • He longed to shuffle off this mortalcoil and embrace, like the Buddha, oblivion, Nirvana, the land of “Being-no-more.”

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Ghost Train and Bright Nights in Stanley Park - presents Salmon Row, a work that breathes life into the shipyards' rich and dark past at the Britannia Heritage Shipyard until Aug. 28, mortalcoil.bc.ca.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Jennifer Van Evra 2011

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