Which preposition to use with death
She was very clever, very original, had known all sorts of people, and it was most interesting to hear her talk about King Louis Philippe's court, the Spanish marriages, the death of the Duc d'Orleans, the Coup d'Etat of Louis Napoleon, etc.
I had no particular ties nor traditions, had no grandfather killed on the scaffold, nor frozen to death in the retreat of "La Grande Armee" from Moscow.
Its banner flies over every country and has been carried through tribulation, through sorrow, through danger, and through death to the remotest parts of the yet-known world.
"It is not death for which we pant, But life, more life, and fuller, that we want.
He ran risks of death by thirst, by hostile tribes and disease, and went through terrible places where no woman could have lived.
Whereupon I, who before this seemed to be without life or motionwhy, I do not knowfeeling that the force of the venom was seeking to reach my heart in divers subtle ways, now tossed and rolled upon the cool grass, expecting death at any moment.
" "Yes, and I suppose I scared myself half to death on purpose too," said Billie sarcastically, as she patted the dog's great head.
She told them of the hope of life after death with God in Heaven.
Occasional cases of manslaughter may take place; but don't mind that, as coroners' juries in New-York will return verdicts of "death from natural causes."
For death as for life, at home or abroad, We pledged to our wives our faithfulest word.
He seemed to say as well as he could, "I can do without my parki and my mucklucks, but I'll take my death without my amulet.
Like all her breed, she would face fire and death before water.
The excesses of the world are a much more fruitful source of disease and death than the attritions of age.
"Good fellows," said Beltane, "God hath this night brought ye out of death into lifehow will ye use your lives hereafter?
Until the darkness of the grave and the universal law of change and dissolution shall draw the curtain of death over his sleepshall prove his apparent sleep to be veritable death.
Thus at the time we speak of, when many deaths among their kith and kin had afforded full proof that the goddess was enraged, they met in solemn conclave and decided to perform every Sunday and Tuesday night for a month such a ceremony as would delight the heart of that powerful deity and stave off further mortality.
His want of scorn was (according to Shelley's view of the facts), clear enough: he had not been equal to despising a spiteful attack, but had fretted himself to death under it.
It was the cry that sent men's blood running more swiftly through their veins, that brought the moose and the deer to their feet shivering in every limbthe cry that wailed like a note of death through swamp and forest and over the snow-smothered ridges until its faintest echoes reached for miles into the starlit night.
"'O father,' said Abdallah, 'thou hast brought me from death unto life!
You said if our lives were governed by reason, we would meet death like a philosopher, and I do not know how to die!
"If it be as you say," said Othello, "I will not rest till a wide revenge swallow them up: and first, for a token of your fidelity, I expect that Cassio shall be put to death within three days; and for that fair devil
Altogether, then, it may be asserted, that a mother is likely to enjoy better health, and to be less liable to sickness and death during lactation, than during pregnancy.
Instinctsomething that was infinitely beyond the comprehension of manmade them feel the presence of death about them, perhaps smell it in the air.
Here two Englishmen, soldiers of fortune or misfortune, as the case might be, who had specialised in recent Mexican revolutions, till the fall of Huerta brought them, too, to unemployment; an Irishman there, for whom the President of Costa Rica had promised a swift death against a blank wall.
"This is more than can be said of the strip of death between the battle lines.