1016 examples of die for in sentences

" Sergeant Corney turned as if to go, and then suddenly wheeling upon the sentinel, said: "I do not read my Bible, as a man should; but yet I remember that in it can be found these words: 'Fools die for want of wisdom,' an' I'm allowin', my friend, if you have any desire to linger in this 'ere world, that you take the statement home mighty strong.

A man who has all his life unreflectingly adopted the traditional principle that death is preferable to dishonour, that a lie is essentially dishonourable, will be far more likely to die for the truth, than one who has philosophized much about honour and veracity, and whose resolution is enfeebled by the consciousness of the weak and flimsy support which theory lends to these healthy and universally received maxims.

His petition excited much ridicule, and, at a public celebration of Washington's birthday, a wit proposed the following: "General Smythe's petition to congress to die for his country.

No Aiken could ever help blurting out the truth if he knew he were to die for it the next minute.

I will gladly die for you.

A certain glow, a fervour of lifethose are signs that always distinguish extremistsmen and women who are willing literally to die for their cause.

Jesus Christ may die for me, and I accept the benefit; but when it comes to suffering for His sake,you could not have expected that of such a poltroon, Jacqueline!

He would go as a British soldier and a British gentleman, to fight and die for his King and his country.

Is it likely to make a child careless, and inclined to neglect vital truth, to tell him that God is his Father and loves him utterly, and has given His only begotten Son to die for him?

Let me not die for your love.

I die for the good old cause.

I might conceivably die for political freedom, but I certainly wouldn't die for Free Trade.

And if this Germanic sociology is indeed to prevail among us, I think some of the broad-minded thinkers who concur in its prevalence owe something like an apology to many gallant gentlemen whose graves lie where the last battle was fought in the Wilderness; men who had the courage to fight for it, the courage to die for it and, above all, the courage to call it by its name.

Then his brothers and sisters were asked if they would die for Admetus, but they loved themselves better than their brother, and turned away and left him.

"But we'd be willing to die for America's cause, wouldn't we?" demanded Hinpoha, with rising excitement.

Posterity we must live and die for it.

Posterity we must live and die for it.

Gaston is devoted to me, and although I should not think of divorcing Harry, No matter what he does, because of letting that odious woman become Marchioness of Valmond, still it is nice to know someone else would absolutely die for you, isn't it, even though I don't want to marry himGaston, I meanWe arrived here last night.

Thou art my life, my love, my heart, The very eyes of me, And hast command of every part, To live and die for thee.

" This "stranger" is his wife Alcestis, who has volunteered to die for him, exclaiming: "Thee I set before myself, and instead of living have ensured thy life, and so I die, though I need not have died for thee, but might have taken for my husband whom I would of the Thessalians, and have had a home blest with royal power; reft of thee, with my children orphans, I cared not to live.

By a bold surprise the confederates gained possession of Cracow and of the fortress of Barr, in Podolia; there it was that they swore to die for the sacred cause of Catholic Poland.

The time had come to go out and die for England, if need be, and these officers went as their ancestors had gone before them, as they would go to lectures at Oxford, to the cricket field and the polo field, in outward phlegm, but with a mighty passion in their hearts.

If Lord d'Hymbercourt cannot help us, I'll try another way if I die for it.

He thinks that God is preoccupied with such things; 'a full choral High Mass, at nine o'clock, that's a thing to live and die for,' I have heard him say.

"They are at the end of their life, and they are happy to die for the reasons that one is sad to live.

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