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die off |
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die off to die one after another until no members of a particular group are left. She was ninety-two and said all her friends had died off. See also: die |
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No one was then thinking of the king, who, leaning on his elbow at his window, had sadly seen pass away all that light, and heard that noise die off -- no, not one, if it was not that unknown of the hostelry des Medici, whom we have seen go out, enveloped in his cloak. There are fourteen water-mills, six steam-engines, and a galvanic battery, always a-working upon it, and they can't make it fast enough, though the men work so hard that they die off, and the widows is pensioned directly, with twenty pound a-year for each of the children, and a premium of fifty for twins. It may cause other parties interested to become lax about their interests; and people may die off, and points may drag themselves out of memory, and many things may smoothly happen that are convenient enough. |
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