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  • I imagine the animal sees that its imminent demise is for a higher purpose.†  (source)
  • With success so imminent, we decided not to tell anyone until he could actually walk.†  (source)
  • He threatens us with his imminent arrival.†  (source)
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  • It never would have occurred to me those words were forecasting my imminent and terrifying future.†  (source)
  • As I think of those days I feel most poignantly the tag end of summer, the bright, dry times when we began to have a sense of shortening days and the imminence of the cold.†  (source)
  • It was too obvious now that their situation was imminently perilous to need the aid of language to confirm it.†  (source)
  • The young Pawnee rolled his eye over the place, as if he were examining the terrific danger from which he had just escaped, but he disdained to betray the smallest emotion, at its imminency.†  (source)
  • The orders stated only act if Phillips's life was in imminent danger.†  (source)
  • Dear Mrs. O'Brien, Inasmuch as you have not succumbed to the imminence of litigation in our previous epistle be advised that we are in consultation with our barrister above in Dublin.†  (source)
  • I could not picture a father treating a dying child as tyrannically and wickedly as I afterwards learned Heathcliff had treated him, to compel this apparent eagerness: his efforts redoubling the more imminently his avaricious and unfeeling plans were threatened with defeat by death.†  (source)
  • In the mean time the sudden appearance, and the imminency of the danger, quickened the blood in the veins of Paul and Middleton, more than all their laborious frictions, and physical expedients.†  (source)
  • I find that the threat of imminent beheading wakes me up just fine.†  (source)
  • Then she heard an ominous sound in the driveway, outside the window, a sound that brought home to her even more sharply the imminence of Ashley's departure.†  (source)
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