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Dead As A Doornail:
A True Blood Novel
The Sookie Stackhouse books are delightful Southern Gothic supernatural mysteries, starring Sookie, the telepathic cocktail waitress, and a cast of increasingly colourful characters, including vampires, werewolves and things that really do ...
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True Blood Omnibus II:
Dead to the World,
Dead as a ...
Blonde, bubbly Sookie Stackhouse loves her job as a cocktail waitress in Merlotte's, in her home town of Bon Temps.
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Dead as a Doornail:
A Stan Kraychik Mystery
The murder of his look-alike renovation contractor is just the beginning as wealthy former hairdresser Stan Kraychik is told to leave town during the investigation and instead discovers a complicated web of secrets that ultimately leads ...
But most of these turns of phrase are quite old, including dead as a doornail,
which has been wheezed for more than six hundred years. In 1350 an
anonymous poet, describing the hunting of a deer, wrote: “And happened that I
hitt him ...
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A Christmas Carol - Spotlight Edition
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Now, it's interesting to think why the
expression should be "dead as a doornail." What is there about a doornail that it
makes you think of death? You'd think a coffin-nail would be more likely to be ...
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The Book
as Artefact, Text and Border
These are bits of language — dead as a doornail — which at some point were
the original creation of some genius but which are now, as Emerson would have
it, fossilized poetry. They have become shared language texts, and no one feels ...
Anne Mette Hansen, Roger Lüdeke, 2005
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The Empire Strikes Back: Outsiders and the Struggle Over ...
... show stopped.Fino dropped the mask talk and 83 “CLS Is Dead As a Doornail”
A Short Introduction to the Movement.
But they broke up and Sookie hopes she can go back to her uneventful, pre-vamp existence.Contains the complete books 4 and 5 of the Southern Vampire Mysteries -- "Dead to the World" and "Dead as a Doornail"
Charlaine Harris, Dead to the world, Dead as a doornail, 2005
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mr. scrooge's christmas
Dead as a doornail, as they say. Not that l can find anything particularly dead
about a doornail; but that's the expression and l'll stick by it. The story l'm to tell
you has to do with a man called Scrooge. Ebenezer Scrooge, to be exact. When l
was ...
A dead Elvis impersonator and a rival-turned-wooer are just a couple of Gabby St. Claire's problems in this thrilling sequel to "Hazardous Duty."
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Ciscoe Morris shows off some drought tolerant plants
All you have to do is walk around the block in this heat wave and you see plants wilting, turning brown or dead as a doornail after all of the hot, ... «KING5.com, 七月 15»
DEBORAH SIMMONS: Please, Obama, Pelosi, others: Stop blaming …
Besides, Chicago has some of the strictest gun controls in America, but that little boy is still as dead as a doornail. And it wasn't because the ... «Washington Times, 七月 15»
Top 10 facts about extinction
“Extinct as the dodo,” dates back to 1870; “dead as a doornail” was used earlier. 3. There have been five known mass extinctions on Earth, ... «Express.co.uk, 七月 15»
Sound Off: July 2
There is no tourists down here, it's dead as a doornail. And again here we go, you'd think the only vendors down here are Double Eagle, ... «Las Cruces Sun-News, 七月 15»
Ryne Dittmer/Staff Photo
It can be a wild day or dead as a doornail,” Deputy Craig Greco said. “Between calls I try to get to areas known for burglaries or some kind of ... «The Kearney Courier, 七月 15»
California drought resurrects old population growth concerns
“Without immigrants, California would be dead as a doornail. We don't have enough children right now as it is to replace the workforce and the ... «Sacramento Bee, 六月 15»
Local history: Gunfire rang out 75 years ago in Akron doctor's office
“It's dead as a doornail,” he said. “Of course, we never give up hope. But we haven't had a new clue for years.” A forgotten crime with an ... «Akron Beacon Journal, 六月 15»
'Fragile zone' pitched for certain Shelter Island communities
“Dead as a doornail,” Mr. Dougherty responded to Mr. Card. “That's unbelievable,” Mr. Card said. “We're pressing,” Mr. Dougherty said. «Shelter Island Reporter, 六月 15»
Jersey does not want to pump its own gas, and neither does Aunt Tess
“That idea's dead as a doornail. I was walking down the street in Princeton yesterday,” he added. “Princeton, which is the most liberal town in ... «Shore News Today, 六月 15»
Artifacts celebrates 20 years
"It used to be certain antiques — Victorian and glassware and all of that stuff — were hot, and now it is as dead as a doornail. No one cares ... «Iowa City Press Citizen, 六月 15»
