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"ref": "1872, Philip James Bailey, Festus: A Poem, page 281",
"text": "God gives and takes away your breath: What more have ye? Breath is your life, and life your soul; Ye have it warm from His kind hands: Then yield it back to the great Whole When He demands. Why, deathling, wilt thou long for Heaven?",
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"ref": "1892, Agnes Mary Clerke, Familiar Studies in Homer, page 142",
"text": "But for us, let us hearken the counsel of Zeus most high, and obey, Who over the deathling race and the deathless beareth sway.",
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"ref": "1934, Algernon Sydney Logan, The Mirror of a Mind: The image of air, Saul, The last crusade, page 150",
"text": "Vain, helpless deathling! thou that seek'st for fame By hurling filth at an eternal name.",
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"ref": "1972, Wystan Hugh Auden, Epistle to a Godson, and Other Poems, page 32",
"text": "Unto whom the Seducer, not our romantic Satan but a clever cartesian Archon, coaxingly thus: Not doing very well, are you, poor deathling, no, and unlikely to do any better, thanks to the schemes of We-Know-Whom,",
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"ref": "1993, Naomi Cornelia Long Madgett, Remembrances of Spring: Collected Early Poems, page 88",
"text": "I am a deathling doomed to hell.",
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"A mortal; one who will die."
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"ref": "1860, Jonathan Swift, The Works of Jonathan Swift, page 442",
"text": "The interest of his realm had need That death should get a numerous breed; Young deathlings, who by practice made Proficient in their father's trade",
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"ref": "1980, Poul Anderson, Conan the Rebel, page 167",
"text": "Meanwhile most of the deathling troop had rustled past them and fallen on the Taians.",
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"ref": "2009, T. Salenger, The First Rider, page 111",
"text": "Deathlings or even wraiths weren't the deadliest weapons.",
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"A supernatural being associated with death, especially a child of death."
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"ref": "1986, San José Studies - Volumes 12-13, page 37",
"text": "In my mind's eye I gather the resident who did the tracheotomy, his patient with her collapsible veins, the nurse who said \" Good,\" and, of course, the deathling in the bed.",
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"ref": "1994, William Everson, Albert Gelpi, The Blood of the Poet: Selected Poems, page 126",
"text": "The old mother grieves her deathling.",
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"ref": "2004, C. B. Follett, Susan Terris, Runes: A Review Of Poetry Storm, page 97",
"text": "you are all I had in this world beloved deathling alone and cold it is behind my ribs",
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"text": "God gives and takes away your breath: What more have ye? Breath is your life, and life your soul; Ye have it warm from His kind hands: Then yield it back to the great Whole When He demands. Why, deathling, wilt thou long for Heaven?",
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},
{
"ref": "1892, Agnes Mary Clerke, Familiar Studies in Homer, page 142",
"text": "But for us, let us hearken the counsel of Zeus most high, and obey, Who over the deathling race and the deathless beareth sway.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1934, Algernon Sydney Logan, The Mirror of a Mind: The image of air, Saul, The last crusade, page 150",
"text": "Vain, helpless deathling! thou that seek'st for fame By hurling filth at an eternal name.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1972, Wystan Hugh Auden, Epistle to a Godson, and Other Poems, page 32",
"text": "Unto whom the Seducer, not our romantic Satan but a clever cartesian Archon, coaxingly thus: Not doing very well, are you, poor deathling, no, and unlikely to do any better, thanks to the schemes of We-Know-Whom,",
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},
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"ref": "1993, Naomi Cornelia Long Madgett, Remembrances of Spring: Collected Early Poems, page 88",
"text": "I am a deathling doomed to hell.",
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"ref": "1860, Jonathan Swift, The Works of Jonathan Swift, page 442",
"text": "The interest of his realm had need That death should get a numerous breed; Young deathlings, who by practice made Proficient in their father's trade",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1980, Poul Anderson, Conan the Rebel, page 167",
"text": "Meanwhile most of the deathling troop had rustled past them and fallen on the Taians.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009, T. Salenger, The First Rider, page 111",
"text": "Deathlings or even wraiths weren't the deadliest weapons.",
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"ref": "1986, San José Studies - Volumes 12-13, page 37",
"text": "In my mind's eye I gather the resident who did the tracheotomy, his patient with her collapsible veins, the nurse who said \" Good,\" and, of course, the deathling in the bed.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1994, William Everson, Albert Gelpi, The Blood of the Poet: Selected Poems, page 126",
"text": "The old mother grieves her deathling.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004, C. B. Follett, Susan Terris, Runes: A Review Of Poetry Storm, page 97",
"text": "you are all I had in this world beloved deathling alone and cold it is behind my ribs",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A dead child."
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