But, if I escape and a true bill should be found against Arthur, then will I follow my better instinct, and reveal what I have hitherto kept concealed, even if the torment of the betrayal drive me to self-destruction afterwards.

Thereupon the submarine, now a blinded thing, rushed along under water in imminent danger of self-destruction from collision with the cruisers above.

Are we to surrender our faith in the future of our kind to the spectacle of a miserable species sentenced by its own nature to self-destruction?

A spectacle like this at dusk would have been appalling enough; but, in the broad open daylight, to witness such an unreserved motion towards self-destruction in a valued friend, took from me all power of speculation.

Jim Doolan, the big Irishman, was of opinion that Dennis Brown was little better than a denied baby with a soft spot in his head, but he admitted that the cow-puncher was "white," and obviously bent upon self-destruction.

On himself he passes sentence of death: it is the tradition of the family, the secret vow of self-destruction handed down through ages from father to son.

that to many minds the mysterious accompaniments of some of the deaths daily occurring conveyed a still darker significance than that implied in mere self-destruction, and seemed to point to a succession of purposeless and hideous murders.

Among the instances of deliberate self-destruction, the following is a remarkable fact, inasmuch as it serves to prove the pernicious effects of the writings of Voltaire and Rousseau in the minds of youth, when at an age incapable of discriminating between fanaticism and real piety!

Religion strengthened it, as it is so apt to strengthen any form of self-destruction, short of technical suicide.

He was the very King Lear of music, trudging his lonely way with heart broken and hair wild in the storms that buffeted him vainly toward the cliffs of self-destruction.

He meant by this that the only means now left to them to evade their enemies was self-destruction.

He cried out with the most bitter expressions of sorrow, mourning, he said, not so much Cleopatra's death, for he should soon follow and join her, as the fact that she had proved herself so superior to him in courage at last, in having thus anticipated him in the work of self-destruction.

Therefore, the school-master must be got rid of, and by self-destruction.

This was his nearest approach, I am confident, to the idea of self-destruction.

For her it led toward self-destruction rather than self-approval.

Self-destruction.

This honestly meets the objections to self-destruction; for how better could life be used, than by laying it down for such a prize?

It was a disgrace to her not to know the proper way in which she had to perpetrate self-destruction.

It will at least save me from the self-destruction which I had contemplated.

Successive conflicts involve an indefinite volume of overhead costs, which grow with the intensity and extent of the expansive survival struggle, creating a series of crises along a path that leads to self-destruction and the return of the experimenters to a condition of pre-civilized self-containment.

It is a strange thought that only by the death of what we now are, can we enter into our own hopes and victories; that it is by the slaying of the self which now is that the higher self takes life; that it is through such self-destruction that we live.

In spite of ourselves, we sympathize with the blind majesty, and, shuddering, share the pain of its self-destruction.

Just what this man's death might mean to the girl he could not safely conjecture, yet deep down in his own heart, he felt convinced that this act of self-destruction would later prove to be a confession of guilt.

" The veiled horseman who rescued the first and second Darweshes from self-destruction.

Trifle, indeed, that breaks hearts and leads to despair and self-destruction and dishonour!