Gradually, even this thread of light died out; and now, all that was left of our great and glorious sun, was a vast dead disk, rimmed with a thin circle of bronze-red light.

Yes; some one told me this; and I wondered, that as it took place so long ago, he appears to have died long afterward.

At that moment he could have died very gladly, just to know that she was once more among her own people, and that so far as he was concerned life was a game played out and ended.

Thou?" "O, Helen, 'tis a mighty task and desperate, and many perchance must die ere this my vow be accomplished" "Thy vow?

One could call out here with never a faint hope of being heard; one left alone here could die miserably, taunted only by the echoes of her own choking voice.

He knew he was to die; and resolved to die bravely.

No doubt, he and his companions Greene, Marlowe, and Peele, led very disorderly lives, and it is singular that all four died prematurely, the oldest of them probably not being forty years of age.

As for Wyandotté, he lived according to his habits and intelligence, and happily died under the convictions of a conscience directed by the lights of divine grace.

The echoes of the firing had scarcely died away, when that whole assemblage was broken up and dispersed.

And he should die peacefully, leaving no wrong behind him, with no guilt upon his conscience, no sin upon his soul.

Suffice it for us that Benedetto, writing a week after the Magnifico's death, says of the matter: "Our dear friend and master died so nobly, with all the patience, the reverence, the recognition of God which the best of holy men and a soul divine could show, with words upon his lips so kind, that he seemed a new St. Jerome.

I didn't love her much while she was living; I broke her heart and shamed her, from morning till night, every day of her life; but good-for-nothing as I am and good-for-nothing as I've always been, if I could save her body this last humiliation, I would willingly die right here and now, and be done with it.

The balls passed too high or too low, but they impressed the fact on enthusiasts, who had longed for battle, that one might die for one's country and not die gloriously.

Also a man may die calmly in the consciousness that he is a distinguished individual, and yet, years afterwards, some magazine writer may cast historic doubts upon his greatness.

I have known some starved, some to go mad, one dear friend literally dying in a workhouse.

Previous to this Mrs. McCarty, who was then Miss Crabb, had run off one day with a young Ensign, who possessed not a shilling, and who speedily died, leaving his widow without property, but with a remarkably fine pair of twins, named Rosalind Clancy and Isabella Finigan Wellesley McCarty.

Citizens reminded each other, that when, during the rebellion, a certain PENDRAGON of the celebrated Southern Confederacy met a former religious chattel of his confronting him with a bayonet in the loyal ranks, and immediately afterwards felt a cold, tickling sensation under one of his ribs, he drew a pistol upon the member of the injured race, who subsequently died in Ohio of fever and ague.

" "What has caused you to believe this, Stimson?reason, or the talk of your mother and of the parson?" "My mother died afore I could listen to her talk, sir: and very little have I had to do with parsons, for the want of being where they are to be found.

One wondrous evening before hope died utterly I survived the ordeal of walking home with her from church.

After the capitulation a large portion of the inhabitants fell by their own handthe mercy of the victor consisted in allowing the Abydenes a term of three days to die voluntarily.

From out the gloom of the thick spruce he looked back, and a low whine of love and grief rose and died softly in his throat.

Fortunately for the Germans, their line of Carlovingian emperors died out.

It was now clearly remembered that there had once been rumors of terrible cruelties by a PENDRAGON family to an aged colored man of great piety; who, because he incessantly sang hymns in the cotton-field, was sent to a field farther from the PENDRAGON mansion, and ultimately died.

This is my case, lady, in sad old age: If seeing thee, I do not die outright, 'Tis that I feel thy beauty but in part.

And for his death, 'tis either surfeit, the pox, or despair; for seldom such as he die of God's making, as honest men should do.