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  • She laughed then collapsed onto him sobbing.

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  • She collapsed onto Jackson.

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  • She collapsed on top of the still assassin, her healing powers flowing unabated.

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  • The room beneath the collapsed building was empty.

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  • Jackson approached her, and she nearly collapsed into his arms.

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  • The church of St Michael dates from 1750, the abbey church having collapsed in the previous year.

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  • There she collapsed on the bed and started to cry – quietly this time.

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  • The patient becomes collapsed, and the skin is cold and clammy.

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  • This choir replaced one which collapsed in 1431.

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  • After having been maintained till the middle of the century, apparently with irresistible support, they suddenly collapsed under the strain of a season of exceptionally short crops.

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  • Sean's body collapsed beneath the blanket, and the ocean's wind whipped the cloth into the air.

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  • She collapsed onto her bed and sobbed, the man in the corner sobbing with her.

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  • After World War I, as the Ottoman Empire collapsed, several new countries emerged.

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  • Jule had moved and collapsed in a heap a few feet away.

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  • The Poes left at around noon and Connor immediately collapsed on the sofa.

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  • There was another terrible crash and something huge collapsed.

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  • If we exclude the abortive invasion of the Danubian principalities by Prince Alexander Ypsilanti (March 1821), which collapsed ignominiously as soon as it was disavowed by the tsar, the theatre of the war was confined to continental Greece, the Morea, and the adjacent narrow seas.

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  • Three of the injured came tottering out from the coal face and collapsed in our arms.

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  • They must've escaped before the immortal world collapsed.

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  • The Unionist regime as a whole, however, had collapsed.

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  • Jackson opened the door; the wolf lumbered in and collapsed at his feet.

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  • Toby hauled Katie up and tugged her forward.  Katie pulled free and grabbed Deidre just as the earth beneath her collapsed.  Katie slammed to the ground, holding Deidre as tightly as she could.

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  • There was a crash, and one of the barracks collapsed.

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  • The movement had no real popular support, and very soon collapsed.

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  • Neapolitan resistance collapsed; Alphonso fled and abdicated in favour of his son Ferdinand II., who also had to fly abandoned by all, and the kingdom was conquered with surprising ease.

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  • Soon afterward the royal government collapsed and the administration.

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  • In 1745 the Capuchin mission finally collapsed after a revival had been attempted in 1741 by a party under Orazio della Penna, of which Cassiano Beligatti was chronicler.

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  • Soon after 321, Macedonian supremacy beyond the Indus collapsed before the advance of the native Maurya dynasty, and about 303 even large districts west of the Indus were ceded by Seleucus.

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  • The auditorium is little less perfect than that of Aspendus and very nearly as large; but the scena wall has collapsed over stage and proscenium in a cataract of loose blocks.

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  • As the Hellmouth was destroyed once and for all, Sunnydale collapsed into the crater.

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  • Amidst these schisms the defence of Italy collapsed.

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  • In 221 Antiochus at last went east, and the rebellion of Molon and Alexander collapsed.

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  • Thus armed he pushed forward the preparations for the Crusade in Germany - a Crusade whose first of.ject would have been an attack on Alexius III.; but in the middle of his preparations he died in Sicily in the autumn of 1197, and the Crusade collapsed.

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  • By November the defence of the Turks in Asia Minor had entirely collapsed.

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  • Further, he threatened the existence of the Bank of England, by lending his support to a counter-institution, the Land Bank, which ignominiously collapsed.

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  • The attack not only on the national religion, but on the national independence of Scotland, proved to be the point at which the system, already strained, broke and collapsed.

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  • Johnson's successor, was actually " inaugurated," but naturally this state " government " immediately collapsed.

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  • The Marquesas and Santa Cruz islands were now discovered; but on one of the latter, after various delays, Mendana died, and the expedition collapsed.

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  • His army, however, under Fiki Adam, fought a fierce battle close to El Fasher on the 22nd, which resulted in its defeat and dispersion, and Abu Gemaiza himself dying the following day, the movement collapsed.

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  • The despotate of Epirus succumbed in 1449, the duchy of Athens in 1456; in 1453 Constantinople was taken and the decrepit Byzantine empire perished; the greater part of Bosnia submitted in 1463; the heroic resistance of the Albanians under Scanderbeg collapsed with the fall of Croia (1466), and Venetian supremacy in Upper Albania ended with the capture of Scutari (1478).

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  • Wales, and the disturbance spread partially to London and elsewhere; but the courts, on the application of the Board of Trade, prohibited the Union from paying strike pay, and the movement collapsed.

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  • Before long famine had fallen on the land, and under this visitation the repeal movement, already paralysed, wholly collapsed.

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  • He was soon joined by the rest of his troops, 15,000 in all, and although the Neapolitan government had 30,000 men in Calabria alone, the army collapsed before Garibaldi's advance, and the rose in his favour almost everywhere.

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  • Both suffered severely from the insufficient and loathsome food, and Mertz collapsed on Jan.

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  • It was from here that the Huns invaded Europe, and when their power collapsed, after the death of Attila, many of them may have returned to their original haunts.

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  • Mehemet Ali's power in Syria had collapsed like a pricked bubble; and with it had gone for ever the myth of his humane and enlightened rule.

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  • Shortly afterwards he died; and, with his death, the Arsacid power collapsed for the second time.

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  • It was about this time that Timur (q.v.) began his great career of conquest, under which the power of the various Persian dynasties collapsed.

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  • A castle was subsequently erected by James Butler, first lord palatine of Tipperary, of which the keep collapsed in 1868.

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  • The controversies they had provoked collapsed, and deism became a by-word even amongst those who were in no degree anxious to appear as champions of orthodoxy.

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  • His army and the lazzaroni committed nameless atrocities, which he honestly tried to prevent, and the Parthenopaean Republic collapsed.

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  • But after frequent stormy scenes in the diet, which were only prevented from becoming mêlées by Fersen's moderation, or hesitation, at the critical moment, he and twenty of his friends of the nobility were arrested (17th February 1789) and the opposition collapsed.

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  • The attempt collapsed; he was captured, and, after suffering eight months' imprisonment, was brought to trial.

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  • The Lincean Academy collapsed with the death of Prince Federigo Cesi, its founder and president; an outbreak of plague impeded communication between the various Italian cities; and the imprimatur was finally extorted, rather than accorded, under the pressure of private friendship and powerful interest.

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  • The movement then rapidly collapsed.

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  • Catalonia was saved by the reaction produced in it by the excesses of the French troops, and in Naples the revolt had collapsed.

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  • In 1868 the government of Queen Isabella collapsed by its own rottenness.

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  • There she collapsed on the bed and started to cry – quietly this time.

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  • We can only imagine the problems that ensued when the rule of Rome collapsed.

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  • The result, as all the world now knows, has been that salmon angling collapsed.

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  • In recent years vast armadas of factory fishing fleets have collapsed global fish stocks.

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  • It collapsed during the earthquake, leaving them and their meager belongings to be soaked by Indonesia's relentless rains.

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  • In 1876 a number of dilapidated houses in Walsall Street collapsed killing a boy, one Edwin Brown.

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  • The collapsed surface of the volcano formed a wide caldera, or crater of sorts, spanning many miles.

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  • Five years ago, Julian Wort collapsed and died, aged 28, from hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.

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  • From here, the High Easter innings collapsed and with David Coyle bowling to a field of close catchers, wickets began to tumble.

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  • However, I won't guarantee that it is not (a) solidly choked, (b) collapsed anyway.

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  • They were being made to kneel cruciform in the sun until they collapsed, " he said.

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  • The blow will be even harder following the collapsed ITV Digital sponsorship deal with the Nationwide league.

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  • Some of the blood vessels have collapsed post mortem and the gut lumen is often distended with gas.

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  • Her madness, unlike Hamlet's antic disposition, is real, not feigned, her gentle soul having collapsed under stress.

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  • She rose, holding out the glittering, finny garment, which flashed like a collapsed fish in the sunshine.

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  • Here a ' secret ' passage led to a collapsed horse gin.

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  • Debris lies scattered from a collapsed Islamic school which was destroyed by helicopter gunships in Khar.

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  • Within the next half-hour, the northern tower of the World Trade Center also collapsed.

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  • Case 8 A 24 year old with sudden hemiplegia This 24 year old female collapsed suddenly while playing squash.

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  • His life-threatening injuries included broken ribs and a collapsed lung that required emergency surgery and extended hospitalization.

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  • On the one hand, the german idealists ' fanciful speculation about Geist collapsed upon itself.

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  • I could not continue to work, as collapsed vertebrae meant I was largely immobile.

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  • I went to the doctors after I collapsed at college, but it was the proverbial last straw.

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  • The operation went well, however I developed a collapsed lung, which caused the delay.

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  • Which famous writer collapsed and died whilst mixing a mayonnaise?

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  • Whilst this was happening the main wall of the dam collapsed revealing an enormous breach through which poured millions of gallons of water.

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  • The El Dorado promised by communism remained a mirage until the whole edifice collapsed like the proverbial house of cards.

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  • The stern section has an iron wheel shaft and a large spare propeller, which has unfortunately collapsed.

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  • A collapsed scrum by Bath gave Goode the chance of 3 more easy points.

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  • It was at this point that she collapsed from her injuries, a fatal stab wound to her chest.

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  • Several sections of motorway, many of which were built above the ground on tall concrete stilts, collapsed or toppled sideways.

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  • West passes a winze on the left to reach a collapsed stope.

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  • Jim runs in and tells them to get a stretcher for Sid who has collapsed.

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  • Hashem surveys the wreckage of his ' nice house ', its walls imploded, its roof collapsed.

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  • But Memnon died at the critical moment whilst laying siege to Mytilene and the great plan collapsed.

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  • The finances of Turkey now collapsed, and the inevitable bankruptcy was declared, whereby more than through any other cause she lost such Deposition sympathies as she possessed in western Europe.

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  • From the Riesengebirge to the Vistula, and from the Moldau to the Drave, extended the shadowy empire of Moravia, founded by Moimir and Svatopluk (c. 850-890), which collapsed so completely at the first impact of the Magyars that, ten years after their arrival, not a trace of it remained.

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  • On the eve of evacuation an attempt was made in Pecs to reestablish the Hungarian Republic under Count Karolyi, but owing to the communist views of some of its promoters the Belgrade Government withheld all support, and the movement promptly collapsed.

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  • Archaeological evidence points clearly now to the conclusion that the splendid but overgrown civilization of the Mycenaean or " late Minoan " period of the Aegean Bronze Age collapsed rather suddenly before a rapid succession of assaults by comparatively barbarous invaders from the European mainland north of the Aegean; that these invaders passed partly by way of Thrace and the Hellespont into Asia Minor, partly by Macedon and Thessaly into peninsular Greece and the Aegean islands; that in east Peloponnese and Crete, at all events, a first shock (somewhat later than i soo B.C.) led to the establishment of a cultural, social and political situation which in many respects resembles what is depicted in Homer as the " Achaean " age, with principal centres in Rhodes, Crete, Laconia, Argolis, Attica, Orchomenus and south-east Thessaly; and that this regime was itself shattered by a second shock or series of shocks somewhat earlier than boo B.C. These latter events correspond in character and date with the traditional irruption of the Dorians and their associates.

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  • Sung-Shu suffered a worse fate on the 31st, the greater part of the fort and its defenders being blown up, and on this day the whole defence of the eastern front of collapsed.

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  • The opposition collapsed; the recalcitrant provincial states were purged; and the leaders of the party of state rights - the advocate himself, Hugo de Groot (see GROTIUs), pensionary of Rotterdam, and Hoogerbeets, pensionary of Leiden, were arrested and thrown into prison.

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  • Not realizing the tape formed flexible hinges, he watched with rapt fascination as the form collapsed into a small, neat bundle.

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  • This window can be accessed, collapsed, and reactivated easily at any point in your transcription.

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  • Timor-Leste, security collapsed after renegade soldiers clashed with security forces.

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  • The mathematical elegance of superstring theory collapsed under a mass of messy facts about the real universe.

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  • The line-up was only finalized seven weeks ago when original crew member Alex Partridge was withdrawn due to a collapsed lung.

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  • They're very durable, so you don't have to spend the night before your wedding dreaming of collapsed cake towers, smudged icing, or a teetering top layer.

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  • Injecting heroin can lead to scarred and collapsed veins.

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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger vs. Sylvester Stallone - Don King died when his hair caught on fire thanks to an ash from Arnold's cigar, and both fighters collapsed in a double KO.

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  • According to MSNBC.com, Richie was browsing the racks when she collapsed.

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  • Alba's spent much of her childhood suffering from various illnesses, including several bouts of pneumonia, asthma, appendicitis, tonsil cysts, and on two occasions, a collapsed lung.

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  • Smith collapsed in a Florida hotel and died shortly thereafter.

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  • On September 11, 2003 John Ritter suddenly collapsed on the set of his show 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter.

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  • Initial reports are still coming in, but so far, what is known is that her mother found Murphy collapsed in the shower and when paramedics arrived, they could not revive her.

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  • The 38 year old collapsed and was rushed to an L.A. hospital where he was pronounced dead in the early morning hours of March 10, 2010.

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  • The following famous dogs are just a few of the courageous search and rescue teams who worked tirelessly to recover victims from the collapsed WTC towers after that fateful day of September 11, 2001.

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  • You will see that part of the room has collapsed, presenting a way to get up to the second floor.

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  • Though the arcade video game sub-culture has collapsed considerably, the games inspired by and born from that generation are alive and well.

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  • The top is usually constructed of metal and, when fully collapsed, sits directly above the base.

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  • Other complications may include collapsed lungs, premature aging of the skin on the hands and feet, and ruptured arteries and veins.

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  • It is used to restore circulation and prevent brain death to a person who has collapsed, is unconscious, is not breathing, and has no pulse.

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  • A collapsed vein feels and looks much like a dislodged IV catheter.

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  • Treatment for an extravasation or a collapsed vein are similar.

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  • Collapsed lung tissue has a typical appearance, and the more lung tissue is collapsed, the more severe the RDS.

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  • A section of the Oakland Bay Bridge-a major bridge that connects cities in the East Bay to San Francisco collapsed, and miraculously, only one person was killed as a result.

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  • The flood, which occurred when a dirt dam collapsed, flooded the entire large town of Johnstown.

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  • As the crowd caught on, giggles began to grow into laughter, until the pair collapsed in each other's arms, having successfully navigated the piece.

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  • This terrible event marked one of California's greatest loss of life in a single incident when the main treatment building, including the clock tower, collapsed and killed the 112 residents and staff who were inside.

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  • The Silver Bridge suddenly collapsed during rush hour traffic, and there were reports that the creature had been sighted flying around the bridge earlier that day.

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  • In 1920, as the Lemp brewing company collapsed and sold off the business, buildings and all assets, Elsa Lemp, the daughter of William Lemp, Sr., shot herself in the bedroom and died in the same manner as her father.

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  • Very soon afterwards, on December 15, 1967,the bridge collapsed and killed 46 people.

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  • She gave the Scavos shelter in her basement during a threatening tornado and sacrificed herself when there wasn't enough room for her under the stairs as the house collapsed.

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  • Eterna eventually collapsed, but it was during this storyline that Viki learned that Megan was her daughter with a man named Roger Gordon, a man her father had made her forget.

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  • It looks like one of his lungs has collapsed.

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  • Might be some guardsmen loose in Mexico who escaped before the immortal world collapsed.

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  • The republics set up by the French at Naples, Rome and Milan collapsed as soon as the French troops retired; and a reaction in favor of clerical and Austrian influence set in with great violence.

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  • The charge of perjury at once collapsed and was withdrawn on January 6th, the opening of the grave definitely putting an end to the story of an identity between the two men.

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  • Thus when, after the crowning victory of Rivoli (14th of January 1797), Mantua surrendered and the Austrian rule in Italy for the time collapsed, Bonaparte was virtually the idol of the French nation, the master of the Directory and potentially the protector of the Holy See.

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  • About a year after this he died (c. 540), and shortly afterwards the Ephthalites collapsed under the attacks of the Turks.

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  • These were at one time more numerous than at the present day; earthquakes and subsidence of foundations have brought many of them down, the latest to fall being the great tower of San Marco itself, which collapsed on July 14th, 1902.

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  • The Second Crusade now collapsed.

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  • Takau was bombarded and captured on the 15th of October, and the resistance collapsed.

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  • The sinking of the " Princess Alice " in 1878 was a serious blow to the London Steamboat Company, which collapsed, and was succeeded by the River Thames Steamboat Navigation Company, which went into liquidation in 1887.

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  • The church of St Nicholas is a fine Perpendicular structure exhibiting the flint-work common to the district, and possessing a beautiful south porch and the ruin of a massive western tower which partly collapsed early in the 18th century.

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  • The Excise Bill in 1733 and the Septennial Bill in the following year offered opportunities for further attacks on the government, which Bolingbroke supported by a new series of papers in the Craftsman styled "A Dissertation on Parties"; but the whole movement collapsed after the new elections, which returned Walpole to power in 1735 with a large majority.

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  • Four bridges cross the Lagan; the Queen's Bridge (1844, widened in 1886) is the finest, while the Albert Bridge (1889) replaces a former one which collapsed.

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  • She communicated on one occasion subsequently and attended Anglican service occasionally; but she received consecrated objects from Pope Clement VIII., continued to hear mass, and, according to Galluzzi, supported the schemes for the conversion of the prince of Wales and of England, and for the prince's marriage with a Roman Catholic princess, which collapsed on his death in 1612.

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  • But that suddenly collapsed, to the ruin of many, and did not revive for a number of years.

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  • Then Kuropatkin's resolution collapsed, although about three divisions were still intact, and he gave the order to retreat on Mukden.

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  • He had organized another counterstroke for the 6th, to be led by Kaulbars, but this collapsed unexpectedly after a brief but severe fight.

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  • Charleston was attacked without success in 1862, but from June to August 1863 it was besieged by General Gillmore and Admiral Dahlgren, and under great difficulties the Federals secured a lodgment, though it was not until Sherman appeared on the land side early in 1865 that the Confederate defence collapsed, Fort Fisher near Wilmington also underwent a memorable siege by land and sea.

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  • Simultaneously, Gertz was negotiating with Cardinal Alberoni and with the whigs in England; but all his ingenious combinations collapsed like a house of cards on the sudden death of Charles XII.

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  • The woollen trade once promised to reach considerable dimensions, but towards the end of the 18th century was superseded by the linen (for which flax came to be largely grown); and when this in turn collapsed before the products of the mills of Dundee, Dunfermline and Glasgow, straw-plaiting was taken up, though only to be killed in due time by the competition of the south.

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  • A revolt headed by Procopius in the second year of his reign, and backed up by the public opinion of Constantinople and the sympathy of the Gothic princes and chiefs on the Danube, seemed so alarming to him that he thought of negotiation; but in the following year the revolt collapsed before the firmness of his ministers and generals.

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  • After the world had been assured that the patient was doing well and would recover, he collapsed and died on the 14th.

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  • The Turks, entrenched at Plevna, delayed the Russian advance; and it was only towards the close of 1877 that Plevna at last fell and Turkish resistance collapsed.

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  • When there were several bands of musicians, it sounded as if all the village was a vast bellows and all the buildings expanded and collapsed alternately with a din.

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  • On New Year's Eve, Spears reportedly collapsed but attributed it to "exhaustion."

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  • The dynasty of the Jagatai Khans collapsed in 1572 by the dismemberment of the country between rival representatives; and soon after two powerful Khoja factions, the White and Black Mountaineers (Ak and Kara Taghluk), arose, whose dissensions and warfares, with the intervention of the Kalmucks of Dzungaria, fill up the history till 1759, when a Chinese army from Ili (Kulja) invaded the country, and, after perpetrating wholesale massacres, finally consolidated their authority by settling therein Chinese emigrants, together with a Manchu garrison.

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  • Immediately north of Chimborazo, and separated from it by only a narrow valley, are the lower triple summits of Carahuairazo, or Carguairazo (which the natives call Chimborazo-embra, " Chimborazo's wife "), whose hollow cone collapsed in 1698 during a great earthquake, and left the jagged rim which adds so much to its present picturesque appearance.

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  • It collapsed with the overthrow of the central power of the White Huns on the Oxus (c. 565) by the Turks.

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  • The ice, that had held under those on foot, collapsed in a great mass, and some forty men who were on it dashed, some forward and some back, drowning one another.

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  • I had such moments myself not long ago, in Moscow and when traveling, but at such times I collapsed so that I don't live at all--everything seems hateful to me... myself most of all.

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  • Horrified, she stumbled into the bathroom for a towel, wrapped her arm in it, and collapsed, sobbing.

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  • The revolt speedily collapsed before this redoubtable commander, and Alem and the other leaders surrendered.

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  • But the movement collapsed without result, and the leaders fled to Tuscany.

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  • He effectively checked the excitement, and when a month later an overwhelming Federal force began moving upon the western counties, the insurrection collapsed without bloodshed.

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  • The Pemberton mills, built in 1853, collapsed and afterwards took fire on the 10th of January 1860; 90 were killed and hundreds severely injured., Lawrence was chartered as a city in 1853, and annexed a small part of Methuen in 1854 and parts of Andover and North Andover in 1879.

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  • The surface tramway system of London cannot be complete, as, within an area roughly represented by the boroughs of Chelsea, Kensington and Fulham, the city of Westminster and a considerable district north thereof, and the city of London, the ' Charing Cross station was the scene of a remarkable catastrophe on the 5th of December 1905, when a large part of the roof collapsed, and the falling debris did very serious damage to the Avenue theatre, which stands close to the station at a lower level.

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  • But the kingdom collapsed with his death and the Chinese retook the country in 1877 and have held it since.

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  • In less than twenty years after the death of its founder, it collapsed before a combined attack of all Poland's enemies, and simultaneously a terrible pagan reaction swept away the poor remnants of Christianity and civilization.

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  • They were, however, unable to win either English or Norman support and their schemes collapsed with Richard's return (March 1194).

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  • Thirty-three years later part of it collapsed, and a second fire followed in 1124.

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  • It was restored, but collapsed again in 1573, and a great part of it had to be reconstructed, including the dome (1574-1591).

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  • After the death of Attila in 453 the power of the Huns soon collapsed, but the political divisions of Germany in the ensuing period are far from clear.

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  • The central tower again collapsed in 1711, after which the edifice was allowed to go to ruin.

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