Just the fact that your hard drive doesn't croak every hour is a miracle.

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And does waiting for your owner to croak really constitute a viable business plan?

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Ravens strut and croak on the medieval ramparts, and a faint peal of bells echoes from the church.

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At the other end of the line I heard something like a croak.

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Guests are kept company by a chorus of coqui, the ubiquitous native frog whose iambic croak gives it its name and Puerto Rico its natural soundtrack.

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Twenty-year term guarantees that as long as you make the level premium payments for the next 20 years, the insurance company will pay out to the beneficiaries if you (ahem) croak.

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Should your engine croak, you are dead.

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The cicadas chirp, the frogs croak.

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Finally, our train heaves out of the station and past the creeks of Mombasa Island, belching out plumes of thick smoke as we swoop around shanty towns where corrugated iron roofs glisten in the rain, and ditches where frogs croak in the darkness.

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