"Dead Souls" is about Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, who travels the provincial countryside buying up dead serfs from small landowners.
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"Kites are opportunistic scavengers, to conserve energy they feed mostly on worms and small dead animals, which they can see from a great height", Mr Straughan said.
The blind man and his guide move away down the narrow streets of the small, dead town.
And it goes without saying that we wouldn't be seen dead on those ridiculously small bikes popular with teenagers, which are designed for performing undignified tricks.
It was Spain's trademark style, and the team played accordingly, using either a small, dead-eye striker like David Villa or the fleet-footed Fernando Torres up front to deliver the final blow.
New college textbooks are very expensive, but the cost of printing words on the dead trees is a very small portion of the price.
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One day in mid-December, there was a knock at the kitchen-house door and he found Chance Poxley standing in the tall dead grass, wearing a small tweed fedora, shading his eyes with one hand.
New research shows that sticking to the Mediterranean diet, previously shown to reduce heart and other health issues, also may help lower the risk of having small areas of dead tissue linked to thinking problems.
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He held a small photograph of his dead colleague, Ahad, in his trembling left hand.
Into this dead swamp came risk capitalists bearing small ideas.
William Small, father of the dead man, said Monday that he was sorry one person died from his son's organs, but he took comfort knowing that others were still alive.
The coroner heard how detectives established that Ms Armitage was dead even though they had only recovered a small piece of human tissue belonging to her.
Al-Abrash and some of his fighters gathered for prayers at the small garden where they recently buried their dead.
"Dead Souls, " meanwhile, is among that small number of uncompleted masterpieces that includes Tchaikovsky's Unfinished Symphony, and Robert Musil's "The Man Without Qualities, " but with the important qualification that Nikolai Gogol's great work is all the better for remaining unfinished.
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Police say Myers sauntered into a barbershop Wednesday, coolly asked if the man cutting hair remembered him and then opened fire with a shotgun, the first shots in a burst of violence that would leave four dead, two critically wounded and people in this small village aching to find out what set the gunman off.
Between the imaginative insanity on "American Horror Story: Asylum" and the ruthless gore on "The Walking Dead, " horror is ever-present on the small screen, and TV viewers are welcoming the thrills with open arms.
Parents built makeshift shrines and placed the bodies of the dead on pieces of cardboard or plywood as they grieved over the small lifeless forms.
On Memorial Day we are all small town America, honoring the sacrifices of our war dead and wounded while celebrating the simple freedoms of the first long hot summer weekend.
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So long as only insomniacs and travellers want to buy car insurance at 3am, working in the dead hours will probably continue to be the lot of only a small minority of workers.
"We think the current crop of seven-inch tablets are going to be DOA, dead on arrival, " said Mr. Jobs, criticizing their small screen, the Android operating system, their price, and lack of applications.
If you look closely, you will see many small, subtle details that keep the building from being a lifeless, born-dead replica.
And now, with the drop-dead date looming, the economic implications of political dysfunction are filling up the windshield of every small business as we race toward the year-end precipice.
Our correspondent says small groups of people have been coming to the bomb sites to pay homage to the dead.
Marrying the sort of narrative values of the Walking Dead game with the kind of action sequences of the Walking Dead TV series, with base and relationship management thrown in for good measure, is quite a challenge for a small company.
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