dying race
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But the Navajo weren’t the dying race Curtis had them pegged for.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2015
Young Richard Titmuss of the Health Ministry and his wife Kathleen are among the sundry Britons who, amid their war worries, have found time for the fear that the British are a dying race.
From Time Magazine Archive
As social worker and Government man, John Collier has indignantly stood out against the prevailing U.S. opinion that the Indians are not only shiftless ne'er-do-wells but also a decadent, dying race.
From Time Magazine Archive
To a political opponent, the slight, ascetic Bratteli was "one of a dying race of social democrats who came from a poor background and made his way through the hard sweat of his own labor."
From Time Magazine Archive
The old high mettle leaped to vivid life, and then, as though the flag had dropped, the starting drum had tapped, Van's fleeting spirit whirled into his dying race.
From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various
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