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So where do you draw the line between unliving protein and living organism?
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2023
Words hold enormous power; in the case of Yente, she becomes suspended between unliving and undead.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
No wizardry would serve him now, but only his own flesh, his life itself, against the unliving.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
He felt like a corpse that is inhabited with just enough life to make it appear as any other of the spectral, unliving beings which we call people in our dead language.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
There is no beauty there, no light and shadow, no colour, only the greyness of unliving outline.
From The Hearts of Men by H. (Harold) Fielding
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