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living death |
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a living death a life that is so full of suffering that it would be better to be dead. She can't walk, she can't feed herself and she can scarcely speak. It's a living death. For me, marriage to someone like that would be a living death. |
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Or, had he found that he had been too late, and thus gone back to a living death upon a dead world? So it was, when the doom of fifty years of living death was uttered by Judge Scott, that Jim Hall, hating all things in the society that misused him, rose up and raged in the court-room until dragged down by half a dozen of his blue-coated enemies. The shark dropped back into the sea, helpless, yet with its full strength, doomed--to lingering starvation--a living death less meet for it than for the man who devised the punishment. |
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