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  • 71A Suspended Ordeal — Infobox Film name = A Suspended Ordeal image size = caption = director = Fatty Arbuckle producer = writer = narrator = starring = Fatty Arbuckle music = cinematography = editing = distributor = released = 9 May, 1914 runtime = country = USA… …

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  • 72After the Ordeal — «After The Ordeal» Canción de Genesis álbum Selling England by the Pound Publicación 12 octubre 1973 Grabació …

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  • 73trial by ordeal — noun a primitive method of determining a person s guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence • Syn: ↑ordeal • Hypernyms:… …

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  • 74The Author's Ordeal — are lyrics to a song written by science fiction author Isaac Asimov. They were first published in Science Fiction Quarterly , May 1957, pp. 34 36. They are included in three collections of Asimov s short stories Earth Is Room Enough , The Far… …

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  • 75Skinner's Ordeal — infobox Book | name = Skinner s Ordeal orig title = translator = author = Quintin Jardine cover artist = country = Scotland language = English series = genre = Crime novel publisher = Hodder Headline release date = 1996 media type = Print… …

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  • 76After the Ordeal — Song infobox Name = After the Ordeal SorA = album Artist = Genesis Album = Selling England by the Pound Released = 12 October 1973 track no = 6 Recorded = August 1973 Genre = Progressive rock Length = 4:13 Writer = Steve Hackett and Mike… …

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  • 77swimming ordeal —    One way of testing people suspected of *witchcraft was to throw them into water with their hands tied to their feet. Those who sank were thought innocent, and hauled back to land; to float proved guilt, because water, the holy element of… …

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  • 78water ordeal — noun : an ordeal (as of plunging a bare arm into boiling water) in which water is the testing agent and in which innocence or guilt is held to be proved (as by the condition of the arm) : an ordeal of casting an accused person bound hand and foot …

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  • 79Fire ordeal — Fire Fire (f[imac]r), n. [OE. fir, fyr, fur AS. f[=y]r; akin to D. vuur, OS. & OHG. fiur, G. feuer, Icel. f[=y]ri, f[=u]rr, Gr. py^r, and perh. to L. purus pure, E. pure Cf. {Empyrean}, {Pyre}.] 1. The evolution of light and heat in the… …

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  • 80The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold — is a novel first published in 1957 by English writer Evelyn Waugh. Strong parallels may be drawn between events in the novel overtaking the eponymous protagonist, Gilbert Pinfold, and episodes in the author s own life. In fact, Waugh later… …

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