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Examples
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An epidemic of rigor mortis is sweeping the emergency waiting rooms of this underfunded province (damn those greedy and selfish Albertans).
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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Butchering a deer during rigor mortis is one of the worst things you can do.
Deer: Hang Time 2006
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SPITZ: Yes, that ` s the liver mortis which is the pooling of the blood after death, which we discussed.
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Is it love or is it Fancy Feastrigor mortis? kitteh sez geee-zus!!
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Is it love or is it Fancy Feastrigor mortis? kitteh sez geee-zus!!
Man Stacks 61 Objects On His Cat While Serenading Him » E-Mail 2009
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When things are going really badly and you're not getting the ammunition, rigor mortis sets in.
No place to hide for hype-horse Frankel or Henry Cecil as fog descends Greg Wood at Newmarket 2010
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Candidates who were behind late in a campaign were “bloodless cadavers,” “kneeling before the ax,” “practically stiff with rigor mortis,” “sleeping with the fishes,” “death-rattling invalids receiving the last rites.”
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Wrote nothing due to cold-induced rigor mortis of the fingers.
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A New York Times editorial once described bagels as “unsweetened doughnuts with rigor mortis.”
The Flex Diet M.D. James Beckerman 2011
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Candidates who were behind late in a campaign were “bloodless cadavers,” “kneeling before the ax,” “practically stiff with rigor mortis,” “sleeping with the fishes,” “death-rattling invalids receiving the last rites.”
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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