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

For all that, however, Punk had in him still the instincts of his dying race; his taciturn silence and his endurance survived; also his superstition.

From The Wendigo by Blackwood, Algernon