284 Metaphors for deaths

When restored to himself, he said, 'Since death is a good, and since Virginia is happy, I would die too, and be united to Virginia.'

Beside this sorrow, death was but a joy.

What has been revealed to us is, that the death of Christ was the interposition of heaven for preventing the ruin of human kind.

For I believed that my death was only a question of hours.

Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was safety and great joy to find.

King Death was a rare old fellow!

The Etruscan Death was a female, with wings upon the shoulders, head, and feet, hideous countenance, terrible fangs and talons, and a black skin.

One of our party, with the rapid à priori reasoning for which he was distinguished, came at once to the conclusion that a watery death would be the inevitable termination of a voyage made in such vessels, and he evinced a very marked disinclination to embark.

It is so well known in every village, how many have either died for love, or voluntary made away themselves, that I need not much labour to prove it: Nec modus aut requies nisi mors reperitur amoris: death is the common catastrophe to such persons.

for us death is liberty."

The outrage was prompted by a frantic notion that the death of Napoleon III was an indispensable step towards the freedom of Italy.

Death is rest, a deliverance from the exhausting labors and cares of this world.

That death shall be my bridegroom.

Then, as now, death was the great problem of humanity"to die and go we know not where".

Nor does it seem to follow, that, because death is the object of universal dread and aversion, and because terror is one of the objects of tragedy, death must, therefore, necessarily be represented; and not only so, but the more deaths the better.

Who knows whether his death would not be a triumph to my gods?'

Her sad death at the age of seventeen was perhaps the greatest unhappiness of his life.

Nine years before the appearance of the 1842 volume of Tennyson's verse the poet's bosom friend, Arthur Hallam, died at an immature age at Vienna, and his death was the subject of much brooding in noble, elegiac verse, written, as was Milton's 'Lycidas,' to commemorate the loss of one very dear to the poet.

The death of Justin is clearly the pivot on which his date will hinge.

Death is a port whereby we reach to joy, Life is a lake that drowneth all in pain, Death is so near it ceaseth all annoy, Life is so leav'd that all it yields is vain; And as by life to bondage Man was brought, Even so likewise by death was freedom wrought.

Death is the common right Of toads and men, Of earl and midge The privilege.

The latter comes to us all, and for a soldier, a soldier's death is the finest of all.

Her children's sorrow was deep and lasting, and the badge of mourning which her husband wore for many months after her death was a truthful symbol of unaffected grief.

As such, his death was irreparable damage to Mahomet's safety from their hostilities.

Life is her fairest invention, and Death is her device for having life in abundance.

284 Metaphors for  deaths