"I will put another case to you," continued the count; "that where society, attacked by the death of a person, avenges death by death.
He strangled her to death by a cord put around her neck.
The expression group of death was not coined to suggest death by boredom, though this attractive and eagerly anticipated fixture only produced an earnest but tedious midfield struggle.
The first recorded human death by robot occurred Jan. 25, 1979: the 58th anniversary of the play's premiere.
But fate liked spitting in poor little Simba's face, and his dear old dad got trampled to death by wildebeests.
If suspects in a crime are identified — by items reported stolen or by telltale blood stains on their clothes — the perpetrators are dragged out into the open and stoned to death by a crowd.
Another example - let's say the same two robbers rob a bank, and one of the robbers is shot to death by the bank guard.
If you've read The lottery, you know that it describes a village in which one person is chosen each year, by lottery, to be stoned to death by his or her fellow citizens.
For five years, shoulder to shoulder, on the rivers and trails, in the camps and mines, facing death by field and flood and famine, had they knitted the bonds of their comradeship.
She was sentenced to death by stoning
He was beaten to death by a rowdy person.
Or a death by crocodiles, or lions, or scorpions, or snakes.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
Qantas, he said, had been suffering "death by a thousand cuts": "We had to bring it to a close".
Having good credit is crucial, because otherwise you will be bled to death by lenders when you need to borrow money.
Among the two methods of inheritance, inheritance by operation of law is still the dominant one because most of the people are accustomed to disposing of their own property after death by law.
We can either resist until we finally succumb to more powerful external forces, or we can resign ourselves to our fate and yield to death by our own hands.
Its corporate equivalent is karoshi, “death by overwork”.
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.
It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
Delany survived her husband's death by applying the "balm" of art; by the end Ms Peacock feels she might do the same.
A controversial female celebrity dubbed "Pakistan's Kim Kardashian" has been strangled to death by her brother in what appears to be the country's highest profile honour killing.
I began with the water on low, and she turned around in a full circle, hesitantly, letting the droplets from the spray fall on her as if she were submitting to a death by stoning.
Several people were crushed to death by the falling rocks.
But notice: life and death by the life, wealth in the day.
The sculpture shows the Trojan priest Laocoon and his sons being crushed to death by sea snakes.
On the way back to Seoul, Chen Chong was bored to death by Zhao Han-cheng. He listened to the endless chatter, weeping and laughing.
"But when the business was put before the king, he gave orders by letters that the evil design which he had made against the Jews was to be turned against himself; and that he and his sons were to be put to death by hanging."
One of the police officers was hacked to death by the mob.
If even this were unavailable, they were reduced to venting their malevolent feelings by swearing harshly at children, threatening them with death by ten thousand knife-cuts.
The novel Henderson the Rain King embodies Bellow's philosophical interpretation of life, reality and death by telling a story that Henderson goes to Africa to seek for the significance of life.
The enquiry reached the conclusion that the cause of Sir Percival Glyde's death was death by sudden accident.
The king died a strange death while he was sleeping in the garden of his castle. It was believed that he had been bitten to death by a poisonous snake.
The coroner's verdict is death by misadventure.
Midday naps appear to lower the risk of death by cardiovascular disease, according to a joint Greek-American study.
You're dicing with death by driving that car so fast.
“Being an old maid”, says one of the characters in a story by Edna Ferber, an (unmarried) American novelist, was “like death by drowning—a really delightful sensation when you ceased struggling.”
A toddler has reportedly been married off to a dog in eastern India in a bid to prevent his predicted death by a tiger.
The Iraqi High Tribunal on Sunday sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majeed, one of former president Saddam Hussein's cousins who was widely known as "Chemical Ali", to death by hanging.
By our baptism, then, we were buried with him and Shared his death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from death by the glorious power of the Father, so also we might live a new life.
Whoever contends for him shall be put to death by morning.
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