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Sentences starting with death

Death in the world, but I'll try it again! [11]
Death had come with sorrow and unmerited shame. [11]
Death and Beauty, what a face! [11]
Death with honour was an advantage to him; death with disaster a boon; death with scandal was a godsend. [11]
Death doesn't change us more than life, my dear. [12]
Death had come to him with a merciful suddenness. [4]
Death has settled this question, and I cannot grant to Publius the first service he has asked of me--asked with great urgency too. [10]
Death glittered in these white blades. [11]
Death already blanched the young officer's face. [11]
Death was breaking the voice in his throat. [11]

Sentences ending with death

It lies in your power to comfort a sad and loving heart, and to give it one happy moment before death. [10]
That would be your legacy and your blessing to her--the death of a murderer; and she would be left alone with the woman that would hate you in death! [11]
I am not you; I am a physician, one who has nothing to do except to take the field against suffering and death. [10]
On the raft, you remember, he took off his hat to death. [11]
You fear and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. [2]
Le Baron Russell writes to me of Emerson at a still later period:-- "One incident I will mention which occurred at my last visit to Emerson, only a few months before his death. [6]
And couldn't and wouldn't have happened in his case if he had been regarded as a celebrity at the time of his death. [5]
A second's thought would have convinced every one that getting out was impossible, and that the only effect of a rush would be to crash people to death. [5]
And are the worst wages paid in these mills anything short of death? [9]
Though shaken and worn, it was a figure which had no affinity with death. [11]

Short sentences using death

He said it was death. [5]
He was wounded unto death. [5]
German is preferable to death. [5]
Death is better than prison! [11]
His death was speedy. [10]
Only Death shall remove it. [5]
He is worthy of death. [10]
The sweet placidity of death! [5]
It is sleep; not death. [11]
Would Riddle's death mend matters? [9]

Sentences containing death two or more times

If Eva had witnessed his death she would have perceived the aptness of the saying that a monk's life is bitter, but his death is sweet. [10]
But the maiden whom your fury would cast into the abyss of the river is under the merciful protection of the supreme Church, for the death of her body will bring death to your souls. [10]
In the same way little by little he came to understand the news he had been told after his rescue, about the death of Prince Andrew, the death of his wife, and the destruction of the French. [2]
Even so, he was not innocent of Lucy's misery and death, of the death of the little one who only opened its eyes to the light for an instant, and then went into the dark again. [11]
The exaltation jars upon me; not because of the death of the men, for they deserved that, but because it is death eternal, in white-hot fire and flame. [5]
For it is true he hath deserved death, but woe be to him by whom his death cometh! [11]
The Khedive loved to play one man off against another, and the death of Sadik or the death of Dicky would have given him no pain, if either seemed necessary. [11]
Death, only Death, thou, the ultimate teacher, Wilt show it to me! [11]
Death, only death, thou, the ultimate teacher, Will show it to me. [11]
The sentence which the Ry had passed was worse than death (and it meant death, too), for it made him an outcast from his people, and to be outcast was to be thrown into the abyss. [11]

More example sentences with the word death in them

But I hope your melancholy bodings as to her early death are not well founded. [7]
The tidings of your death can some day repeat the misery I felt in that moment, but nothing else can ever do it. [5]
Miss Woodburn said you were freezing him to death when I came down. [8]
When they give you the signal, brave Martialis, remember the unfortunate woman in Alexandria whose death you swore to revenge. [10]
They laugh, as you know, at Praxilla, the poetess, because she makes the dying Adonis lament, when face to face with death, that he is forced to leave the apples and pears behind him. [10]
Why, Speed, if you did not love her although you might not wish her death, you would most certainly be resigned to it. [7]
I recall as yesterday the day Captain Clapsaddle rode to the Hall, his horse covered with sweat, and the reluctant tidings of Captain Jack Carvel's death on his lips. [9]
But about fourteen years before his death he became closely connected with Harper's Magazine. [4]
The cannonshots had wounded him fatally, he had crept to that unfriendly place in the fog, and there, surrounded by his enemies and in constant danger of detection, he had wasted away with hunger and suffering till death gave him peace. [5]
This day perhaps would witness the sunset of his life's joy, would drive him forth once more to war--to fight, and do nothing but fight, till death should meet him on the battle-field. [10]
Even as he would have understood the peasant's murder of King Louis, so he would have seen a logical end to a terrible game in Bigot's death at the hand of Voban. [11]
How gladly she would have held back the sun which was bringing on the day of death to this kindest of mistresses, and have spent the rest of her own life in perpetual night, if only her yesterday's deed could but have been undone! [10]
Sentence of death would have been more welcome to him than this supercilious check to a hazardous attempt, which he had looked upon as daring and heroic. [10]
The mere death would have been cruelty enough, without overloading it and emphasizing it with that score of harsh and wanton details. [5]
Such a catastrophe would be death, in all probability, for we would be swept to sea in the "Sink" or overturned and drowned. [5]
The feminine society world welcomed him gladly, because he was rich, distinguished, a good match, and almost a newcomer, with a halo of romance on account of his supposed death and the tragic loss of his wife. [2]
In the Petersburg world this sad side of the affair again involuntarily centered round a single incident: Kutaysov's death. [2]
Hur confirmed these words, adding that the tireless zeal and heroic scorn of death displayed by the son of Nun could not be denied. [10]
The sky, the woods, the waters, the storms, life, death love, the hope and vision of eternity,--these are images that write themselves in poetry in every soul which has anything of the divine gift. [6]
Besides, when they won't get well and bore you to death, you can send 'em off to travel. [6]
He must have witnessed something very terrible, for his face was as pale as death, and his usually confident and swaggering manner had given place to a stricken and care-worn air. [10]
I answered him with what carefulness I could, and brought round the question of your death, by hint and allusion getting him to speak of the mode of execution. [11]
The prefect discussed with the Patriarch the inauspicious effects that the death of the young fellow might be expected to have on the Emperor, and as a result, on the government, although the favorite had had no qualities of mind to distinguish him. [10]
She felt that with the death of this youth--so gifted, and so dear to her--a corner-stone had been torn from the paternal house. [10]
Then he said, with the back of his hand to his mouth to hide a yawn: "The manner of her death will please the Mudir. [11]
Her eyes filled with tears again, as she thought of her friend--her sister-sitting in that palace alone, forsaken, banished, and looking forward to an ignominious death. [10]
He surrounded her with precautions, that Nature might have every opportunity of cunningly shifting the weights from the scale of death to the scale of life, as she will often do if not rudely disturbed or interfered with. [6]
Slow she said, with piercing breath, "Rebel fighter dies rebel death! [11]
It had grown with my own life, and now with its death to-day I felt that I had lost all that was dear to me. [9]
A 'poudre' day, with its steely air and fatal frost, was an ill thing in the world; but these entangling blasts, these wild curtains of snow, were desolating even unto death. [11]
He was vexed with himself, that he could feel so little anger against a criminal, whose guilt was deserving of death, and reproached himself for lukewarmness. [10]
They flung themselves with fury on the foes that surrounded him, dealing death as they advanced, and putting the Cheta to flight, and soon Rameses saw himself safe, and protected by his followers. [10]
Aunt Caroline said with feeling that Dr. Hilliard's death was a blessing, after all, since it brought a long-separated father and son together once more. [9]
Newspapers filled her with dread, but it was from a newspaper, during the first year of her retirement, that she had learned of the death of Howard Spence. [9]
They await death with calmness, for it is sweet to die by thy will. [10]
She had risen with a face as white as death. [10]
He then still wished to live and feared death. [2]
I do not wish it, Monsieur Doltaire, because hanging is a shameful death, and he is a gentle man, not a ruffian. [11]
While she was wiping her eyes, Wolf described the great anxiety which, after Charles's death, overpowered the Quijadas in Villagarcia. [10]
The good Jain wipes off a seat before using it, lest he cause the death of-some valueless insect by sitting down on it. [5]
As your readers will remember, he was condemned to death. [5]
F. No, he will not say so now, because his mouth, I trust, is hushed in death, and his body stretched to the four winds of heaven, to be torn to pieces by carnivorous birds. [5]
I know you will hold out loyally and would look death in the face as fearlessly as your sister did in Haarlem; but I, I cannot endure the thought of seeing you fall into the hands of our butchers. [10]
Aye, and I will give my best Iceland Gerfalcon for a lame crow if every word she spoke concerning the death of Junker Herdegen was not false knavery. [10]
I too... All will end in death, all! [2]
This dare-devil bravery will be the death of this horse some day. [5]
It was a wildly extravagant farce--just the sort of thing that now and then Mark Twain plunged into with an enthusiasm that had to work itself out and die a natural death, or mellow into something worth while. [5]
But the king's wife, seeing, came and spoke to the king and the others, crying out for the honour of her dead son; so that in a moment of anger they all cried out for death. [11]
The Little Chemist's wife declared that the look was death. [11]
He found the widow Susannah a corpse; standing at the head of the bed was little Katharina, as pale as death, speechless, tearless, utterly annihilated. [10]
Did not you, whose life is a thousand times more important than mine, of your own free-will go into captivity and to death in order to save our father? [10]
So it's you who's starving us to death! [2]
Miss Wallace, to whom the next letter is written, had known Mark Twain in Bermuda, and, after his death, published a dainty volume entitled Mark Twain in the Happy Island. [5]
And she of whom seven years ago death had bereft him? [10]
Shall I starve whom I love, to win a gentle death? [5]
No Egyptian from whom death had snatched a loved one failed to follow the swelling torrent, which increased till hundreds became thousands. [10]
Whoever knows it, whoever serves it, whoever impresses it deeply on his soul and only breathes and moves in it, no longer has any taint of baseness; he soars high above the earth, and knows nothing of misery and death. [10]
Now, the man who sues for mercy condemns himself to death! [10]
The secular judge who should have delivered judgment and pronounced sentence was himself so disturbed that he forgot his duty, and Joan went to her death unsentenced--thus completing with an illegality what had begun illegally and had so continued to the end. [5]
Those lean Egyptians, who pushed past in silence and haranging their heads, were no doubt bent on carrying offerings to Osiris and Anubis--for the festival of the gods of death and resurrection coincided with the Nekysia--and on winning their favors by magical formulas and spells. [10]
If the Kanakas who have been caring for him (inveterate riders they are) have not ridden him half to death every day themselves, you can depend upon it they have been doing the same thing by proxy, by clandestinely hiring him out. [5]
To the deity who created him he dedicates body and soul until the death to which he dooms him. [10]
Just then Julie, who by the death of her brothers had become one of the richest heiresses in Moscow, was in the full whirl of society pleasures. [2]
But after a while the steamboats so increased in number and in speed that they were able to absorb the entire commerce; and then keelboating died a permanent death. [5]
Two thousand acres which, since the General's death, had been at sixes and sevens. [9]
After his death, which took place during his defence of a friend in the public court, a temple was erected to him by his countrymen. [10]
In the hush which followed, our crime was recited, the death warrant read, then everybody uncovered while a priest uttered a prayer. [5]
For a crime which does not taint her purity our judges have to-day condemned to death a beautiful and spotless maiden--a stranger, and at the same time a Greek and a heretic Melchite. [10]
But the thing which clean broke my heart was something which happened in front of our old barrack in a square, while we were enduring the spectacle of a man being boiled to death in oil for counterfeiting pennies. [5]
Only the soul which ceases to regard death as a misfortune finds peace. [10]
Behind the moss-hut, wherein I had found my Herdegen with the dancing hussy, the Swabian Junker and Ritter Franz had fought, without any heed of the law and order of such combat--fought for life or death, and for my sake. [10]
Yes, that is where we got him--stretched on the wain, going to his death, poor chap, and nobody to say a good word for him. [5]
Happy little enclosure, where thieves cannot break through and steal, where Death himself hesitates to enter, and makes a visit only now and then at long intervals, lest the fortunate inhabitants should think they had already reached the Celestial City! [6]
These fearful fields, where such tempests of death used to rage, are peaceful enough now; no sound is heard, hardly a living thing moves about them, they are lonely and silent--their desolation is complete. [5]
But to stay where he was, and endure this living death all night--was that better? [5]
By the trenches, where five men had died so bravely, and a traitorous pasha had paid the full penalty of a crime and won a soldier's death, David spoke to his living comrades. [11]
By and by, when my health fails, I am going to put all my affairs in order, and bid good-bye to my friends here, and kill all the people I don't like, and go out to Keokuk and prepare for death. [5]
I suspected it when I heard that she had succumbed to death, which I--yes, I here--had held back from her with severe toil through many a sleepless night. [10]
The man who, when drunk, beat his wife till the blood came, and committed plenty of cruel deeds, trembled, wept, and could even pray with fervent piety, when--which often happened--the frail little creature, shaken by convulsions, seemed at the point of death. [10]
I didn't know what was the matter at first, and when I found out I was scared to death, I was ready to kill myself. [9]
I cannot tell what power you hold over me, whether of life and death, or of wealth and poverty; but after talking to me of love, I should not have thought you would have wronged me by suggesting any meaner motive. [6]
I only know what I thought then, face to face with death. [10]
Berenike must know what he thought of Caesar's suit, and seeing her wholesome and honest hatred, he had sworn to himself that he would snatch his sister from the hands of the tyrant, if it were to lead him to the most agonizing death. [10]
Ulrich now knew what death the doctor had met, and that his father had gone to Antwerp and lived there as an armorer for twelve years. [10]
Much as Barry Whalen loathed the man, this act showed that Krool's love for the master who had sjamboked him was stronger than death. [11]
The telegraph wires were thrilling almost hourly with messages of death, and the long pine boxes came by almost every train,--no need of asking what they held. [6]
Many and great were the difficulties attending the marriage of a Protestant princess in those troublous times, and Elizabeth finally announced that she would become wedded to the English nation, and she wore a ring in token thereof until her death. [5]
Then, as we were setting out for Castle Howard, came the news of your death on the road to Upper Marlboro. [9]
On either side were niches containing statues of Antony and Cleopatra cast in dark bronze, and above the cornice were brazen figures of Love and Death, Fame and Silence, ennobling the Egyptian forms with exquisite works of Hellenic art. [10]
Some of them were murderously spelled; others were missives in such elegant phrase and dress, that danger was only to be apprehended in them by one skilled in the mysteries of medieval poisoning, when death flew on the wings of a perfume. [4]
In that village were men who--as they thought--had cast him to a death fit only for a coward or a cur. [11]
Soon the two were clean cut off from the French army, and must fight to the death or surrender. [11]
The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window. [12]
Finally the Kadi went up to Paula, whose heroic composure as she heard the sentence of death had filled him with admiration. [10]
But she soon went on more calmly: "I even permitted my father to be taken from me and sent away, perhaps to death. [10]
Then it is well with her, for death is not punishment; it is the end and aim of life,--the only end that we can attain without effort, but through sufferings!--the gods alone know how great. [10]
It had so well deserved to live that its death was a surprise and a source of regret. [6]
Our dead are welcome there; their life made it beautiful, their death has hallowed it, we shall have them with us always, and there will be no parting. [5]
In the meantime we were off through Cursitor Street at a gallop, nearly causing the death of a ragged urchin at the corner of Chancery Lane. [9]
In the Hellespont we saw where Leander and Lord Byron swam across, the one to see her upon whom his soul's affections were fixed with a devotion that only death could impair, and the other merely for a flyer, as Jack says. [5]

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