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1  The injuries were not sufficient to have caused death in a normal person.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
2  I implored of him to go home at once and told him he would get his death in the rain.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
3  Death, in his opinion, had been probably due to shock and sudden failure of the heart's action.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
4  Religion for her was a habit, and she suspected that a man of her husband's age would not change greatly before death.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In GRACE
5  One human being had seemed to love him and he had denied her life and happiness: he had sentenced her to ignominy, a death of shame.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
6  He did not like to say even to himself that her face was no longer beautiful, but he knew that it was no longer the face for which Michael Furey had braved death.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
7  The threadbare phrases, the inane expressions of sympathy, the cautious words of a reporter won over to conceal the details of a commonplace vulgar death attacked his stomach.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
8  I found it strange that neither I nor the day seemed in a mourning mood and I felt even annoyed at discovering in myself a sensation of freedom as if I had been freed from something by his death.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
9  I too listened; but there was no sound in the house: and I knew that the old priest was lying still in his coffin as we had seen him, solemn and truculent in death, an idle chalice on his breast.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
10  The evidence showed that the deceased lady, while attempting to cross the line, was knocked down by the engine of the ten o'clock slow train from Kingstown, thereby sustaining injuries of the head and right side which led to her death.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE