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  • Sometimes, when he went down to put the kettle on, and didn't return, I found them arguing happily in the kitchen like a pair of actors in a stage production, about the dissolution of the Soviet Union or whatever.†  (source)
  • In the decades before the development of the cure, the disease had become so virulent and widespread it was extraordinarily rare for a person to reach adulthood without having contracted a significant case of amor deliria nervosa (please see "Statistics, Pre—Border Era" )...Many historians have argued that pre-cure society was itself a reflection of the disease, characterized by fracture, chaos, and instability....Almost half of all marriages ended in dissolution ....Incidence of drug use skyrocketed, as did alcohol-related deaths.†  (source)
  • Late Antiquity was generally characterized by religious doubts, cultural dissolution, and pessimism.†  (source)
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  • Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution.†  (source)
  • When Brahma, or the God of Gods, saith the Shaster, resolved to recreate the world after one of its periodical dissolutions, he gave birth to Vishnoo, to preside over the work; but the Vedas, or mystical books, whose perusal would seem to have been indispensable to Vishnoo before beginning the creation, and which therefore must have contained something in the shape of practical hints to young architects, these Vedas were lying at the bottom of the waters; so Vishnoo became incarnate in a whale, and sounding down in him to the uttermost depths, rescued the sacred volumes.†  (source)
  • No one is getting what they want out of the caste dissolution, and they think we don't care.†  (source)
  • He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.†  (source)
  • Ten years, twenty, before dissolution begins to claim him.†  (source)
  • And Chapter IV, Dissolutions, tells of the foretold end, first of the hero, then of the manifested world.†  (source)
  • And that is to separate—to separate from that people who from a total dissolution of virtue among them must be our enemies—an event which I de[v]outly pray may soon take place; and let it be as soon as may be.†  (source)
  • CHAPTER IV — Dissolutions.†  (source)
  • His eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep, his breath short; the man responsible for the dissolution of Treadstone was exhausted.†  (source)
  • During each great round, lesser dissolutions are commonly included, as the cycle of sleep and waking revolves throughout a lifetime.†  (source)
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