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carry off

















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“She’ll be a soul in torment, carried off just when she was fixing to lock us up in that schoolhouse for another year.”

From Literature

They didn’t seem to notice or care that they were being carried off.

From Literature

Now we have the vanishing of Nancy Guthrie, the octogenarian mother of a TV news personality, evidently carried off from her Arizona home into … a void.

From Los Angeles Times

In 1868 the Royal Navy carried off two statues, now in the British Museum.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the image of Davidson being carried off the floor late was a chilling reminder of how quickly things can change — and how much the Trojans need their star freshman.

From Los Angeles Times