" When Wesley was on his death-bed he wrote to Wilberforce cheering him in his struggle against the slave trade.

Toward the close of the Base Ball season the Brotherhood League dealt what it believed to be a death blow to the National League by the purchase of the Cincinnati franchise.

The doctor, it is true, had been pronouncing her death-warrant when she saw him holding her wrist, and wondered what he did there in the middle of the night; but she had been very ill before this, and the conclusion of her life had been watched with many tears.

Not less than 18,000 colonies perished in these two counties alone, while in the adjacent counties the death-rate was hardly less.

In 1830, a prisoner, awaiting the death-penalty, effected his escape from jail.

Meanwhile, Acredale had read with amazement, first, of the finding of Jack Sprague among the rebels at Point Lookout, then, the extraordinary story of the court-martial and death-sentence.

The water below was lashed into fury, in the midst of which a mighty death agony beat back the troubled waves of the trade wind.

There was that sense of relief in it which there always is at the end of a death-struggle.

He remembered having looked on a master who lay very quiet and very cold in the snow, and he had sat back on his haunches and wailed forth the death song; but these people on the walls looked alive, and yet seemed dead.

"Whatever my first conclusions were I can see now the most probable explanation of how Henshaw came by his death-wound.

Shivering with horror the family gathered in the beautiful room which had been so suddenly turned into a death chamber, the servants weeping boisterously, Isabella and her mother in violent hysterics, and Marion clinging with wide, frightened eyes to Louis, who found himself thrust into a man's place of responsibility and did not know what to do!

And what is the meaning of the death-knell of Ottoman Dominion in Europe and Asia if it be not the death knell of Turkish people as a free and governing race?

Dick thought of the death-rattle he had heard in Acredale when old man Nagle, the madman, died.

These, as well as the omens of death-watches, dreams, etc. are founded upon some accidental coincidences; but spilling of salt, on an uncommon occasion, may, as I have known it, arise from a disposition to apoplexy, shown by an incipient numbness in the hand, and may be a fatal symptom; and persons dispirited by bad omens sometimes prepare the way for evil fortune, for confidence of success is a great means of insuring it.

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The head of the triangle became a death-trap.

It seemed a strange thing, I remember, to be bargaining for stuff which might never be delivered, for by the autumn the dominion might be at death grips.

" "Yes," remarked Lord Nick, "actors generally desire an intelligent audience for the death scene.

And his death-bell rung, And my sorrowing thoughts his low requiem sung; And with trembling steps his worn body cast In the wide charnel-house of the dreary Past.

Since her father's death Duke Ivo hath had his glutton eye on fair Mortain, whereof her counsellors did ken, yet, being old men and averse to war, would fain have had her wed with him.

At the age of fifty-one, while planning the campaign which was to make Marlborough immortal, William received his death-stroke, which was accidental.

"You want a death certificate from me," she added.

The next, the air was shattered with the thunder of the guns among the hills, shouts, curses, death-cries.

But the cause of all this merriment wore only an expression of slightly pained bewilderment on his death-mask of a face.

I actually was in charge of the deck of his death ship, searching for new victims, and only hoping that the arch villain might live to overthrow the even fouler demon who would succeed him if he died.