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Examples
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Gourlay perceived that Lucy shuddered at her external appearance, which we have already described when we found her in the death-chamber of blind
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The house was in confusion, and under cover of it we walked up into the little salon adjoining the death-chamber.
Gobseck 2007
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The house was in confusion, and under cover of it we walked up into the little salon adjoining the death-chamber.
Gobseck 2007
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Doubtless it formed one of the ends of the death-chamber.
People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005
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In the death-chamber of a contemporary corpse Mme. de Guermantes would not have pointed out, but would immediately have perceived, all the lapses from the traditional customs.
The Guermantes Way 2003
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They followed him swiftly through a curtained doorway opposite the door of the death-chamber, and came into a corridor, into which various chambers opened.
Rogues In The House Howard, Robert E. 2003
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The good old minister came freshly from the death-chamber of Governor Winthrop, who had passed from earth to heaven within that very hour.
The Scarlet Letter 2002
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There was nothing more in this death-chamber to tell him anything.
Monk's Hood Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1992
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They followed him swiftly through a curtained doorway opposite the door of the death-chamber, and came into a corridor, into which various chambers opened.
The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989
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One or two had died of fever, or fallen in war; the rest were all here still, his inheritance from the death-chamber in Babylon.
Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981
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