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- noun Alternative spelling of
deathbed .
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This is not some zeitgeist obsession, some starlet's misadventures; or some pop star's death-bed being sold by cheesy profiteers; or some stupid slur that causes a new Oscar host; or a dumbstruck moment live in a debate by a presidential wannabe.
Jamie Lee Curtis: Hindsight Jamie Lee Curtis 2011
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Besides, it is so lately that I was several nights with him, having sat up three nights with him while on his death-bed.
Letter 2 2009
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Remember Henry IV's death-bed advice to his son Harry: "Busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels."
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This is not some zeitgeist obsession, some starlet's misadventures; or some pop star's death-bed being sold by cheesy profiteers; or some stupid slur that causes a new Oscar host; or a dumbstruck moment live in a debate by a presidential wannabe.
Jamie Lee Curtis: Hindsight Jamie Lee Curtis 2011
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Premiums are set on basis that all Insured will encur like death costs as do these death-bed scene cases -- my own parents were $47,000 and $69,000 apiece.
Fogel Vs. Wonks, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And at his death-bed he pledged me again never to reveal the location in that nameless valley, and never to go back myself.
SHIN-BONES 2010
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Cullen on his death-bed; Sir George Blank, solicitor to the docks at
DAN CULLEN, DOCKER 2010
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On her death-bed the fortitude and benignity of this admirable woman did not desert her.
Chapter 2 2010
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Never in the history of Island McGill was there so fearful a death-bed.
SAMUEL 2010
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Most here would claim these death-bed cases have to be paid for, but the Insurance company premium charges are set to derive economic profits rather than normal business profits.
Fogel Vs. Wonks, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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