C. to kingdom come, and you watch the shock wave roll up, and then you wake, your tongue clamped firmly between your teeth.

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Then I lie back with my head on a smooth boulder, gaze dreamily around at the lumpy brown hillsides and let the sulphurous warmth embalm me, a benevolent gesture from the volcanic gods before they blow us all to kingdom come.

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"In my opinion, this is more consistent with a lease rather than a sale, because you can't have a purchase price which is not fixed and which is payable until kingdom come, " said Harry Roque, a law professor at the University of the Philippines.

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Moonrise Kingdom didn't come into my head in a conventional way.

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The initiative for the kingdom's nascent reform process has come from Crown Prince Abdullah.

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Following pressure from the United Kingdom government, the agreement will not come into force until March 2008.

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By the final chapter, the pieces of the puzzle come together, showing just how vast and desolate this kingdom is.

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