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It also contained a small, bizarre library of 21 books, from Donald Duck comics to westerns, romance novels and thrillers with titles such as The Horror Lurks Everywhere.

From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2019

Once home to pirates who ambushed passing ships, the island was known, in Malay, as Pulau Belakang Mati, or the Island Where Death Lurks Behind.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 9, 2018

May 31, 2010, 5:42 pm For Very Young, Peril Lurks in Lithium Cell Batteries Last fall, 13-month-old Aidan Truett of Hamilton, Ohio, developed what seemed like an upper respiratory infection.

From New York Times • May 31, 2010

Lurks one hidden factor: since neither Bremen nor Europa have ever been run at the maximum speed, both German ships have something in reserve for the great transatlantic race of 1933-34.

From Time Magazine Archive

None of the Four Lurks in the beast: He grins at me, untroubled as before; I have not hurt him in the least.

From Faust — Part 1 by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von



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