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Against the odds he survives to become a car thief in Miami, all the while plotting his revenge.
Horrigan only survives being shot by Leary because he is wearing his bulletproof vest.
Williamson was notoriously secretive about his creation and no contemporary plan of the whole network survives.
Looking out over this parched, shimmering landscape in the cold hard light of morning it's a miracle that anything survives here at all.
It will be interesting to see whether the tradition of handing down family photos survives.
It is especially well suited for low meadows and pastures, and survives extended periods of standing or running water.
What's been rediscovered in recent years is authentic Cuban culture, a culture that survives in Cuba in a time warp.
This is fair enough, for what survives to us in the Fourth Gospel is the Johannine take on this event.
In the ensuing attempt, Dunbar survives and rallies the Union troops to win the battle.
The project is entirely funded by donations from overseas and survives month by month.
Let's hope this baby survives the perils of predators while it is unable to fly.
The potential for future conflicts is horrific, and will remain so while capitalism survives.
By the late '60s, guitar-based bands cranked out songs in an energetic new style called benga that thrived for two decades and survives today.
The actor plays a Philadelphia security guard who survives a train wreck that kills 131 others, miraculously emerging without a scratch.
Of the first letter, all that survives is the freestanding end of a diagonal stroke in the bottom right corner of the letter space.
The eagle drops the box over the sea, and Gulliver miraculously survives this disastrous fall.
In each of the four walls there is a recess, although only that to the west survives in anything like its original state.
The publishing industry survives despite the host of good design and bad typography emitting from the color printers of the world.
On King Street, until reclamation the river frontage, a C12 timber-framed structure survives among the predominantly Georgian buildings.
The blood often re-enters the aorta further down the vessel, in which case there is serious damage but the patient survives.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Amidst the sickliness and wane of things, neither poet nor saint survives his laurel for more than a day.
The music is lost, but the libretto survives, and that is enough to account for the collapse.
This Pietas Tewkesburiensis still survives, as flowers are annually laid upon the site of the grave.
This is now replaced as a common noun by the French word nephew, but it survives in the surname Neave.
But it survives simply because crucible steel is very much better than either Bessemer or open-hearth steel.
Any pole was a yard, and this vaguer use survives in sailyard, halyard, and in other sea-terms.
An interesting name survives in the little hamlet of Thingwall, situated almost in the centre of the wirral.
This mixed language still survives among some of the inferior races of men.
The Alpe, or bullfinch, mentioned in the above lines, also survives as a surname.
In the northern dialects the pronunciation as brig, seg, sing still survives.
In this way his letters became what they are, like coins put in the pyx, and mintage that survives the best of the goldsmiths.
The aged widow, now in her eighty-ninth year, still survives, occupying her home in this Colorado town.
Gradually the form went out as a type of folk music, and now survives mainly in its historical interest.
The stranger dies, while the Indian, sweating and gasping for breath, survives.
He also wrote a book On polygonal Numbers of which only a fragment survives.
But something of the Turk survives to this day in the character of the Bulgarian people.
Almost all, of which anything survives, are ruinous and uninhabitable.
This old family still survives in the person of a single heir to the excellent man whose death now afflicts so many warm friends.
The clinquant corslet of the Swiss girl just survives at bals costums.
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