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Значения термина deathwatch на английском

Minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers.

Bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death.

Использование термина deathwatch на английском
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Around his neck Hel's deathwatch indicated that they had thirty-eight minutes left.
Runemarks
2
Their waiting was a form of deathwatch, but also of nativity.
The Descent
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He heard low voices behind him, the deathwatch around her bed.
The stand
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Hel's deathwatch cracked right across the face, freezing the time at thirteen seconds.
Runemarks
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It sounds to me like the ticking of a deathwatch.
The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories:...
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The six seconds on the deathwatch had dwindled to three.
Runemarks
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He was falling rapidly now, eyes shut, still clasping the deathwatch in his hands.
Runemarks
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Going to the club seemed a clear confirmation that there wasn't a deathwatch going on.
Before you know kindness
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He hadn't thought to stand her deathwatch, too.
The bone palace
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The deathwatch beetle ate wood and nothing more.
Practical Magic
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Ask him about the Battle of Britain or about the deathwatch beetle and he can tell you.
The death of bunny munro: a novel
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The reason for the Treasury's sudden switch in terms was an intensified deathwatch over Fannie and Freddie.
The Guardian
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She looked at the deathwatch, its hands now separated by nothing but the smallest whisker of time.
Runemarks
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Perhaps it was only deathwatch plus one.
Outlander
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The hands on the deathwatch snapped together.
Runemarks
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The deathwatch was already counting down.
Runemarks
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