701 Verbs to Use for the Word death

I never saw a Big Tree that had died a natural death; barring accidents they seem to be immortal, being exempt from all the diseases that afflict and kill other trees.

"So your men met their death.

It may be of interest to explain how Lady Studley in her unhealthy condition of mind and body performed the extraordinary trick by which she hoped to undermine her husband's health, and ultimately cause his death.

It was a song I had heard, one made by the great Montrose, who had suffered shameful death in Edinburgh thirty years before.

Yet, to let go, would have meant certain death to the old fellow, and the thought spurred me to greater exertions.

But now Brave Conn upon the ship's high prow Hath raised his burnished blade on high, And calls on Woden and on Tigh With boldness, to avenge the death Of his great sire ...

Only one jumped: the others stood by their commander, faced death calmly, and won a never-dying renown for their heroism.

(Announcing the Death of "Raven", a prominent character in "Barnaby Rudge")]

But, as a matter of fact, nothing in the fortunes of our friends equals the truth of the thrilling and desperate chances taken by Northern captives to escape the lingering death of prison in the South.

So the work of a great scientist, a potent benefactor of the race, a gentle and kindly old heart, has brought about the death of your friends and of my enemies.

But surely a nation ought not to be suspected of fearing death, whose very women show a contempt of life which no other people have exhibited.

"He deserved death, at the least, and by killing him I'd have cheated the gallows.

I felt tied to that couch; I am very young, and I had never seen death before.

The room in which we stood was evidently an apartment set apart for her use, for beyond was the tiny bedchamber; yet the small, high-up window was closely barred, and the cold bareness of the prison was sufficient indeed to cause anyone confined there to prefer death to captivity.

And hither he's come in Masquerade, I know with some Design against my Bellmour, Whom though he kill me, I must still preserve: Whilst I, lost in despair, thus as a Boy Will seek a Death from any welcome Hand, Since I want Courage to perform the Sacrifice.

On this principle we may explain his enthusiastic regard for the chorister Eddlestone, from whom he received the cornelian that is the theme of some of his verses, and whose untimely death in 1811 he sincerely mourned.

John Randolph did some hard thinking during the weeks which followed Richard Trueman's death.

Her children she kept from me as from the plague, and during the years preceding my grandfather's death, I had almost no communication with them.

When a sick person asks for a drink of Tober Mhuire water, it is taken as a sign of approaching death.

The king was still in perfect health, and his gratitude to her who had been the means of his recovery was so lively in his mind, that the moment he saw the countess of Rossilion, he began to talk of Helena, calling her a precious jewel that was lost by the folly of her son; but seeing the subject distressed the countess, who sincerely lamented the death of Helena, he said, "My good lady, I have forgiven and forgotten all."

In dear Erminia's Death too much is done; If you revenge that Death, 'tis two for one.

I knew that the Baron desired my death, and that therefore I could not be too wary of pitfalls.

However, while saying flatly it was a boy's scheme, and not worthy the attention of men, he stated that he would not put any obstruction in the way of those who chose to make the hazard, save to state openly that whosoever left on such a mission was but hastening his own death.

This, however, turns out to be a mere fiction; and, it is well understood, that we know of no substances that will produce death at a determinate epoch.

And she was offered to thirteen criminals doomed to suffer death, and they all chose death.

701 Verbs to Use for the Word  death