But all your efforts were in vain, Friends or physicians could not save; For ghastly death his mandate gave, To lay me in the silent grave.

368. 'All parts resound with tumults, plaints, and fears, And grisly Death in sundry shapes appears.' (Dryden).

Happily such deaths as these, like the deaths of the gods, are only for a time.

7. To that high Capital where kingly Death Keeps his pale court in beauty and decay He came; and bought, with price of purest breath, A grave among the eternal.

So thou shalt die no knightly death, but, in a little while, thou shalt be hanged like a thief.

Cruelty, lust, brutality, hate: these have appeared in unspeakable guise, but apparently no cowardice or weak timidity; yet the mail clad heroes of ancient wars, who met their adversaries face to face, were subjected to no such strain as the men standing in trenches waiting momentarily death or mutilation from an unseen foe.

There were now but two roads openeither death by her own hand or to lie to him.

Seldom this malady procures death, except (which is the greatest, most grievous calamity, and the misery of all miseries,) they make away themselves, which is a frequent thing, and familiar amongst them.

She had heard of her husband's re-conviction and life sentencefinally death, and George Hawker is as one who has never lived.

The death of her father and her dear mother, so sudden, following so soon one after the other.

The death thereof is an evil death, the grave were better than it."

"The hope of finding subsistence in the heritage of my ancestors made me go back to Germany, where unhappily the death of my brothers, my absence, the disorder of war, of law, and a faithless administration, have prevented, at least during my lifetime, all that I could hope.

"Yet, whilest the Fates affoord me vitall breath, I will it spend in speaking of thy praise, 310 And sing to thee, untill that timelie death By heavens doome doo ende my earthlie daies: Thereto doo thou my humble spirite raise,

What if some demon should my death foreshow, Or bid me change, and to the Christians go; Will you not think I merit some reward, When I my love above my life regard? Almah.

'Here Innocence and Beauty lies, whose Breath Was snatch'd by early, not untimely Death.