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One by one, the certainties of the 20th century are falling away.

Like the prophets of old, Sax is here to chew us out for falling away from the true faith—but also offer a chance at redemption.

In him no laxity inhered, no falling away from the strict tenets of shipshape neatness.

Second, the negative result of not bringing forth any useful herbs corresponds to falling away.

The former must be rendered hypothetically: They cannot be renewed after falling away if they persist in crucifying, etc.

And is death the assertion of this individuality in the higher nature, and the falling away into nothingness of the lower?

But this was a fitful sound, suddenly rising and as suddenly falling away again, and it only served to intensify the silence.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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