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"It's to their advantage, Lieutenant, to remain" unrescued "until that colony ship arrives," Titrivell added.
Survivors McCaffrey, Anne 1984
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I think that would be up the replacement the school sends in for the late, unrescued professor.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Compassionate Law Students Overrule Judge and Save His Life”: 2009
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The Stars My Destination had its origins in a newspaper clipping that Bester found about Poon Lim, a shipwrecked World War II sailor on a raft, who had drifted unrescued in the Pacific for a world record 133 days because passing ships thought he was a lure to bring them within torpedo range of a hidden submarine.
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We have all reached the depths, like the unrescued Kursk [the sunken submarine].
Pushing the Envelope of Journalism Until It's Inside-out 2008
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We may yet have a chance to learn if an unrescued giant financial institution is the systemic earthquake we've all feared.
Are We Running Out 2008
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If friendless and unrescued, he is generally put into a railway omnibus and taken to Paris.
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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The other thing that I stumbled on was the suggestion that a kid who didn't have magical powers would let her sister go unrescued.
HH Com 280 (278) Miss Snark 2006
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He would no more do anything to frighten her than he would allow Blade and Tad to languish in the wilderness, unsought-for and unrescued.
The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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He would no more do anything to frighten her than he would allow Blade and Tad to languish in the wilderness, unsought-for and unrescued.
The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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Some juvenilia remain unrescued from the Carlisle Evening Sentinel, to which she contributed, according to her 'Subject, Predicate, Object' (1958), 'woman's suffrage party notes.'
She's Got Rhythm Donoghue, Denis 1986
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