Which preposition to use with dies
It was evident, I reflected as I went toward the tent, that the inhabitants of these few huts in the wilderness did not know a word of English; and when I told Tonnison, he remarked that he was aware of the fact, and, more, that it was not at all uncommon in that part of the country, where the people often lived and died in their isolated hamlets without ever coming in contact with the outside world.
Some said that Sisyphus had done his job of porterage long enough; Tantalus would be dying of thirst, if he were not relieved; the drag must be put at last on wretched Ixion's wheel.
It was he who told me of old Prince Gortschakoff's famous phrase when he heard of Thiers's death(he died at St. Germain in 1877)"Encore une lumiere eteinte quand
Petrarch's death occurred in 1374, and Boccaccio survived him but one year, dying on the twenty-first of December, 1375.
Perhaps it was in his nature at rare intervals to want one particular person so terribly, to pine and die for someone!
I once determined that it should die with me; and had I not met with you, it certainly should.
He had gone down and died without a struggle.
Not one in a million of those who pass away every year, die from the effects of age, as a primary cause.
My one desire was to get out of this ghoulish thicket and die by the stream-side.
(This, then, was the second wife of Edward Osborne of Henrico, who, marrying him 15 June, 1694, died before January, 1696-7.)
"These three," she says, "I will cause to die within one year and at no great distance apart, and I will not dismiss him unattended.
I was raised like one, and I'll die like one.
But soon I saw that he was sleeping quietly, and in his slumbers the madness had died out of his face.
" Aloud Patricia said: "You mean, then, that, to cap it all, a functional disorder of my heart has become organic, so that I would inevitably die under another operation?
Then abruptly the clamour died to nothing.
[NOTE.The incident related in this poem occurred in the year B.C. 620, when the duke of Muh died after playing an important part in the affairs of Northwest China.
[A] Former student of the Medersa of Algiers, bookbinder, lutemaker, and copier of manuscripts, Qaddour ben Omar ben Beuyna, best known among his coreligionists as Qaddour el Hadby (the hunchback), who died during the winter of 1897-1808, has sung for thirty years about all the notables of his city.
And here a third, to a child who had died as one of the Innocents: MIRAE INNOCENTIAE ANIMA DULCIS
SeeO see how fast they fall and die about us!
Confusion blast all mercantile transactions, all traffic, exchange of commodities, intercourse between nations, all the consequent civilization, and wealth, and amity, and link of society, and getting rid of prejudices, and knowledge of the face of the globe; and rot the very firs of the forest that look so romantic alive, and die into desks: Vale.
"An death must come, better one should die than four," said Beltane, "howbeit I am minded to seek out Pertolepe this day.
There were wounded and dying among them; some vacant places.
Hawkins records (Life, p. 588) that one day Johnson said to his doctor:'How many men in a year die through the timidity of those whom they consult for health!
Yet the memory of the tragedy this vessel had witnessed remained with methe helpless slaves who had suffered and died between decks; the dead sailors in the forecastle, their ghastly faces staring up at the beams above, and the horrible figure of Paradilla outstretched on the cabin divan.
(26) Urania would fain have died along with Adonais; but, chained as she was to Time, this was denied her.