Sentence examples for dead speaking from inspiring English sources

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"We know the difference between, airstrikes, artillery and mortars, we have lived for over two years surrounded by fighting," said Qassim a brother of one of the dead, speaking by phone from the village.

Minutes later Sheik Hamed, a portly man in his 50's, stood stoically before the bodies of his wife and children and called on the men in the crowd to open their hearts and pray for the souls of the dead, speaking in a matter-of-fact tone, as if praying for any other member of the community.

And it is a narrative genealogy that is told actually not only through a human story, not only through the monologue of Addie in this epic convention of the dead speaking, but is also told a parallel epic convention of a human story threaded through a non-human creature.

The prime minister, Kevin Rudd, announced a $10m£4.5m5m) emergency relief fund and said: "Hell in all its fury has visited the good people of Victoria... many good people now lie dead". Speaking about the fears that arson could have played a part, he said: "What do you say about anyone like that [an arsonist]?

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Do the dead speak?

In the third act, the dead speak.

But the dead speak more loudly to me than the future".

… if human hearts be dead, Speak, passing winds; ye torrents, with your strong And constant voice, protest against the wrong.

For a play that is about the ways in which the dead speak to the living--about Lamos says, "love after death --the death --theseems unusally apt.

There are no fixed boundaries in Smith's universe: her dreams seep through her waking hours, the dead speak to her, she journeys on a whim.

He met Cara De Silva, author of "In Memory's Kitchen," a book of Holocaust victims' recipes, who taught him that the dead speak to the living through food.

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