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1  "To plague us to death," answered Martin.
Candide By Voltaire
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2  The bayonet was also a sufficient reason for the death of several thousands.
Candide By Voltaire
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3  After this they joined with others in relieving those inhabitants who had escaped death.
Candide By Voltaire
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4  Scarcely had they reached the city, lamenting the death of their benefactor, when they felt the earth tremble under their feet.
Candide By Voltaire
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5  I was in this state of weakness and insensibility, between life and death, when I felt myself pressed by something that moved upon my body.
Candide By Voltaire
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6  Cunegonde lifted up her eyes to heaven; shed tears upon hearing of the death of the good Anabaptist and of Pangloss; after which she spoke as follows to Candide, who did not lose a word and devoured her with his eyes.
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7  The sailor ran among the ruins, facing death to find money; finding it, he took it, got drunk, and having slept himself sober, purchased the favours of the first good-natured wench whom he met on the ruins of the destroyed houses, and in the midst of the dying and the dead.
Candide By Voltaire
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