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raise from the dead

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Indeed, it is also the first African nation to raise from the dead an independence leader - Kenyatta - and seemingly sit him at State House again, complete with matching eyes and voice.

From BBC

And if you could choose one other recent classic to raise from the dead, what would it be?

From Time

Suppose that in May, 1865, a man had pretended to raise some person by the name of Smith from the dead, and suppose a religion had been founded on that miracle, would it not be natural for people, hundreds of years after the pretended miracle, to ask why the founder of that religion did not raise from the dead Abraham Lincoln, instead of the unknown and obscure Mr. Smith?

On that day, through the eyes of a child he tries to raise from the dead, Satan stares at him.

With great earnestness, no sense of humor, an entirely undisciplined style Evelyn Scott attempted to raise from the dead the following peacefully slumbering corpse: how shall a second-rate writer support a wife, two children and his own self-respect during an economic depression?

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