dying race
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But the Navajo weren’t the dying race Curtis had them pegged for.
From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2015
To a political opponent, the slight, ascetic Bratteli was "one of a dying race of social democrats who came from a poor background and made his way through the hard sweat of his own labor."
From Time Magazine Archive
This rude old-fashioned drama comes of a dying race.
From Time Magazine Archive
Young Richard Titmuss of the Health Ministry and his wife Kathleen are among the sundry Britons who, amid their war worries, have found time for the fear that the British are a dying race.
From Time Magazine Archive
The snow-shoe and the birch-canoe,—what other dying race ever left behind it two memorials so perfect and so graceful?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 by Various
