21 Verbs to Use for the Word dyings

"He had one only daughter, and she lay a dying.

First, when he laid aside the sad raiment of his calling, and put on his khaki habiliments of war, he thought that the chief part of his job was to shrive the soldier before action, and to comfort the dying.

Or, rather, in which he had begun his dying, for he had opened the door and fallen headlong down the steps I had just ascended.

Now down the blast go sailing The dead leaves, brown and sere; The forests are bewailing The dying of the year; A word comes to me, lighting With rapture all the air, And in my heart is summer, Though all the trees are bare.

But, one evening while Tom was sitting thinking of his home, feeling the muscles of his brawny arms with joy as he thought how he would work to buy his wife and boys; his master was brought home dying.

Pope answered, 'I do not send you word I will do, but have already done the thing you desire of me,' and sent his poem of three stanzas, called THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL. 'Vital spark of heavenly flame,' &c. These two letters were published by Warburton, but are not given by Pope in the edition of his correspondence, published in 1737, and the poem has no place in the collected works of 1717.

She had nursed the sick, she had entertained the weary, she had consoled the dying.

But in the other lessons I learned the wanderings of Æneas, forgetful of my own, and wept for the dead Dido because she killed herself for love; while, with dry eyes, I endured my miserable self-dying among these things, far from Thee, my God, my life.

His conversion to the cause of Islam is momentous, because it deprived the idolaters of their chief means of vituperation and ensured the gradual dying down of the fire of abuse.

On arriving at Angers, Louis found the empress Hermengarde dying; and two days afterward she was dead.

There they lay, the dying and the dead, for more than an hour.

To the others who have loved the dying, and have gone before him, it is not a darkening, but a dawning.

The white race was accompanied by the gallantry of the black as they swept over entrenched lines and later volunteered to succor the sick, nurse the dying and bury the dead in the hospitals and the Cuban camps.

Often, also, one must resist examinations under torture, because many men, out of a desire to avoid pain, have often told lies under torture; and have preferred dying while confessing a falsehood to suffering pain while persisting in their denial.

At this, the helmet was quickly filled, and accompanied by a monk, who was present to shrive the dying or to bless the dead, the Lady Clare hurried to the side of Marmion.

Pymeuts think old chief dying not of consumption, but of a devil.

He contrived to force his way into the midst of the dense crowd, but there the heat and pressure were so great that he fainted away; a body of soldiers, seeing his danger, charged straight into the throng and carried him out of it in their arms, trampling under foot the dying and dead in their passage.

Was she to watch the dying down of his flame, and try to shelter and fan it back to life as she had seen so many other women do?

The doctors of Marseilles had fled, or dared not approach the dying without precautions, which redoubled the terror.

"I hate to speake, my voyce is spent with crying; I hate to heare, lowd plaints have duld mine eares; I hate to tast, for food withholds my dying; 416 I hate to see, mine eyes are dimd with teares; I hate to smell, no sweet on earth is left; I hate to feele, my flesh is numbd with feares: So all my senses from me are bereft.

These strange openings and closings and knockings were warnings and reminders from the spirits who attend the dying.

21 Verbs to Use for the Word  dyings