On 2019 Jul 04 13:21:20, you wrote to you:

 AS>> Lying  on  wet  snow  in  wait  of  a near death, Bianca
 AS>> suddenly emembered [...]

 AS> `near' does not sound well to me, but am hard  put  to  find
 AS> one that fits the intended meaning of a death that will come
 AS> soon.  A quick death may be misunderstood as having a  short
 AS> duration.

"near death" means close to death... in the above passage, bianca is waiting to
 almost die when she remembers something...

looking up "near death experience" may help provide a little more information
on the actual action but "near death" by itself just means "close to death" or
"almost dead"...

just a lowly american shooting from the hip again...

)\/(ark

And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was
so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected
up it had started from "I think therefore I am" and got as far as deducing
the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn
it off.
... Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
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