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This measure aimed to break the stranglehold that many plantation stores held on workers and their communities, especially during the deadseason.
Since that, now and then, one is occasionally seen in the same deadseason.
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The book, coming at a deadseason of literature, was well received.
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It was not irksome to him to stay there even in the deadseason.
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They seemed the forgotten skeletons of funeral plumes that had waved over the deadseason.
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For at that deadseason of the year, sweet alison was almost their only joy.
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The deadseason had steeped the vast basement in a sort of torpor, in the pale light falling from the air-holes.
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In a deadseason of politics, his depression was extreme.
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The deadseason had thrown the vast floor into a sort of torpor, in the pale light from the air-holes.
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