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  • For weeks after his demise, his vestments and his cane hung from the coat tree in the vestry office—as if old Mr. Scammon had journeyed no farther from this world than to the adjacent toilet.†   (source)
  • Trying to put a positive spin on my impending demise.†   (source)
  • He glanced uneasily at Hatter Madigan, who'd been sitting silent and still in a corner of the tent, a pocket-sized holographic crystal in his hand, ever since General Doppelganger told him of the Millinery's bloody demise.†   (source)
  • Yet the thought of this eventual demise provides no sense of victory, no solace.†   (source)
  • I didn't want to leave Margo alone with the dead guy who might be an attack zombie, but I also didn't care to stand around and chat about the circumstances of his demise.†   (source)
  • I see that the rumors of your demise were unfounded.†   (source)
  • Then, without warning, Deborah turned the pages of Gold's book and stumbled on the details of her mother's demise: excruciating pain, fever, and vomiting; poisons building in her blood; a doctor writing, "Discontinue all medication and treatments except analgesics;" and the wreckage of Henrietta's body during the autopsy: The dead woman's arms had been pulled up and back so that the pathologist could get at her chest … the body had been split down the middle and opened wide … greyish…†   (source)
  • The deadly missile attack shortly to be launched by an ancient automatic defense system will result merely in the breakage of three coffee cups and a mouse cage, the bruising of somebody's upper arm, and the untimely creation and sudden demise of a bowl of petunias and an innocent sperm whale.†   (source)
  • And, of course, all three orphans were still shuddering from how Dr. Orwell had met her demise, a phrase which here means "stepped into the path of the sawing machine."†   (source)
  • Even as a six year old—dreamy, stumbling, asthmatic, hopeless —the slur of misfortune and early demise had been perfectly visible about his rickety little person, marking him off like a cosmic kick me sign pinned to his back.†   (source)
  • I thought I'd come to terms with 12's demise--heard of it, seen it from the air, and wandered through its ashes.†   (source)
  • Norman has kind of thick glasses, and I bet he couldn't actually hit anything, even with a machine gun, which even a lunatic like Norman is allowed to buy in this country thanks to our totally unrestrictive gun laws, which Michael Moscovitz says in his webzine will ultimately result in the demise of democracy as we know it.†   (source)
  • News of our demise would be a three-line notation buried on the back page of a white newspaper were it not for the Northern reporters' nosy persistence in getting the facts and dogging the trail of segregationists.†   (source)
  • Tata Ndu reported the news of my demise.†   (source)
  • I'm a spectator of our own demise and there's nothing I can do.†   (source)
  • What concerned her was not my premature demise-like me, she was far too self-centered to think of someone else at a time like that-nor even the fact that the death of my DNA would mark the end of a line of aristocrats which stretched back to the Mayflower;, no, what bothered Mother was that the family was going to die out in debt.†   (source)
  • From the cheerful topic of my impending demise, we were suddenly declaring ourselves.†   (source)
  • All of them fighting off my demise in the best way they knew how.†   (source)
  • What if we see two people having dinner, then, but one of them is plotting, or bringing about the demise of the other?†   (source)
  • Scale of one to ten
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    WAS I RECKLESS to rush toward such volatile nature gods?†   (source)
  • Their high labor costs have for the most part been responsible for their demise, along with the declining popularity of schnitzel.†   (source)
  • Such are, of course, precisely the values embodied in the Hayes Society's idea of a 'distinguished household', and the fact that it was confidently making such pronouncements as late as 1929 shows clearly why the demise of that society was inevitable, if not long overdue.†   (source)
  • Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them.†   (source)
  • Rash and ill-advised conduct is understandable in a woman placed as you have been — I fully realize the unpleasantness of not knowing where one's husband may be located; but you must be aware, that in the event of the demise of such a husband, no man of principle would ever make his wife, a woman who had anticipated that position prematurely.†   (source)
  • I wanted to feel like a shiny-cool winner, so I didn't tell my students about my demise.†   (source)
  • He must be convinced he's not to blame for the Duke's demise.†   (source)
  • Troubled by the general moral demise of the East—manifest, particularly, in the Lindbergh kidnapping—the well-known home appliance magnate and his high-born Bostonian wife had brought their three sons, a maid, a cook, a butler, and a pair of private tutors to San Piedro's secluded shores.†   (source)
  • She herself was preoccupied—by the births of their sons, by the family setbacks after Papa was jailed, by Papa's sad demise and death, by their own numerous business failures.†   (source)
  • Salander devoted a week to planning Nils Bjurman's demise.†   (source)
  • And in due time, he found Glumra and informed her of Kvistor's demise, and now he sat listening as she grieved for her slain child, alternating between wordless howls and scraps of Dwarvish sung in a haunting, dissonant key.†   (source)
  • Seeing an Erudite process something is like watching the inside of a watch, the gears all turning, shifting, adjusting, work] ng together to form a particular function, which in this case is to make sense of his imminent demise.†   (source)
  • Rather, it concerned a cat, the mysterious demise of Nancy's favorite pet, Boobs, whom, according to an entry dated two weeks prior to her own death, she'd found "lying in the barn," the victim, or so she suspected (without saying why),of a poisoner: "Poor Boobs.†   (source)
  • Kanue was at home by himself, bored, and upset about the demise of his team.†   (source)
  • It should not be overlooked that his demise was precipitated in large measure by the youth of Romania—a great number of whom, were it not for his abortion ban, would never have been born at all.†   (source)
  • With the demise of the zampolit this duty devolved upon the commanding officer, but Ramius doubted that regulations anticipated the sort of discussion on today's agenda.†   (source)
  • Years later, Daily Racing Form reporter Pete Pedersen noted that "Tom's eyes were sparkling mirrors" when he recalled this incident, making one wonder if the old cowboy had a hand in the bell's demise.†   (source)
  • He hadn't known about the demise of his previous relationship, however, and Sarah's infidelity had intrigued him.†   (source)
  • At dinner that night, all of my brothers talked excitedly about Lin Biao's demise.†   (source)
  • For this third iteration, Jill Zande had gotten more ambitious and worked with the authors Vickie Jensen and Harry Bohm to create a twenty-two-page short story that fictionalized the demise of U-157, a U-boat that had been torpedoed in the Caribbean in 1942.†   (source)
  • And yet, my friends, good things have also happened in this traumatic century: the defeat of Nazism, the collapse of communism, the rebirth of Israel on its ancestral soil, the demise of apartheid, Israel's peace treaty with Egypt, the peace accord in Ireland.†   (source)
  • You made an immense mistake, but it shouldn't mean the demise of all you worked so hard to accomplish.†   (source)
  • History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it.†   (source)
  • In the past few years, you've managed to outwit a psychotic vampire who chased you down with the help of thugs the size of dump trucks, as well as a stake-wielding slayer, bent on your demise, who actually stabbed you through the chest.†   (source)
  • The women, overjoyed by their sameness, their lack of diversity, were, in fact, celebrating their imminent demise, which would render their sameness absolute.†   (source)
  • The army soldier who'd tried to steal the motorcycle had an odor at the moment of his demise, and so, too, had Rosina, and the two odors were identical—they spoke of sudden death.†   (source)
  • Seems appropriate that a production of Alice in Wonderland would end up being your demise, don't you think?†   (source)
  • Last night I told you about the unfortunate demise of Mr. Seth Hubbard, but what I didn't tell you was that before he died he did a quickie will, mailed it to my office, and designated me as the lawyer for his estate.†   (source)
  • I feel certain we will discuss Mr. Williamson's demise for many months, even years to come.†   (source)
  • Adams's only known response to the news of Franklin's demise was in a letter to Rush in which he lamented the lies history would tell of "our revolution."†   (source)
  • It didn't occur to Grace that perhaps it was the Maclean in her, those cursed lawyer genes, that made her so objectify the issue of her own demise.†   (source)
  • They discuss many topics: the worsening crime on New York City's streets; the demise of the Mets since their glory seasons in '69 and '73; day-to-day matters of the bakery.†   (source)
  • Such shilly-shallying in an obvious case outraged my father's principles, and he personally attended to the demise of the Dakers' cat while the matter was still sub judice.†   (source)
  • Maureen would be very unhappy at your demise.†   (source)
  • Camelot's demise could have originated during the Cuban missile crisis, when JFK scored a decisive public relations victory over Nikita Khrushchev and the Soviet Empire, while at the same time frustrating his top generals and what Dwight Eisenhower called "the military-industrial complex" for refusing to launch a war.†   (source)
  • Flowers might still bloom defiantly, but just as Bryan had considered the last day of school summer's conception, so did she consider the Labor Day weekend its demise.†   (source)
  • Corinne was supposed to meet her demise quickly, painlessly.†   (source)
  • "Has the time of my demise come so soon?" she asks in a voice stronger than before.†   (source)
  • Gedney and Meade had acted valiantly, saving the ship and all aboard from certain peril, if not a complete demise.†   (source)
  • I'm shocked that Agent Cooper isn't more concerned over the imminent demise of his pulpy spy novels or whatever godforsaken trash occupies his leisure hours.†   (source)
  • But Veronica, shyish and sweet, healthfully ample, with a shockingly full head of tight chestnut-brown curls, is the sort of girl you would wish upon all good people who have mourned the demise of that cardinal generosity of youth.†   (source)
  • In honor of the Dirt's demise, Jordan Gripenwaldt is passing out celebration candy.†   (source)
  • But the title didn't bother me as much as the news of Cora's demise.†   (source)
  • The world won't officially hear of Sheng's death for weeks, and when the announcement is made, his "sudden demise" will undoubtedly be attributed to a massive coronary or a cerebral haemorrhage, certainly not to murder.†   (source)
  • It seems the reports of my demise were greatly exaggerated.†   (source)
  • We will toast instead the painful demise of Senator Bilbo.†   (source)
  • The bat fell from his hand and he wept at the prospect of my future demise.†   (source)
  • People die by the thousands every day; but simply because someone has had the energy and enterprise to assist old D'Courtney to his demise, the law insists upon turning him into an enemy of the people.†   (source)
  • The rumors of my demise are greatly exaggerated.
  • Her talk is entitled, "The Dinosaur's Demise".
  • But when she heard the news of the statues' demise, Laila was numb to it.†   (source)
  • You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.†   (source)
  • "You might say that it has overshadowed Martin's demise.†   (source)
  • Liesel Meminger lived to a very old age, far away from Molching and the demise of Himmel Street.†   (source)
  • "Bro, I don't kid about the demise of black Santa collectors.†   (source)
  • She turned off the TV news halfway through a dramatic report about Wennerström's demise.†   (source)
  • She truly regretted the Star Rose's demise, despite the fact that it had been required.†   (source)
  • I listened to hours of her and Ringer plotting their demise.†   (source)
  • Finally confronted by BoneMan's demise, she was unwilling to see him die?†   (source)
  • My second wife dead, after being tricked into poisoning me and leaving me to a painful demise.†   (source)
  • Throughout his journey to Rhode Island he has been barraged by news of the southern demise.†   (source)
  • It was the attention he paid poor Sukeena that may have led to his untimely demise.†   (source)
  • After all, it had been a tool for his demise—something that troubled Vlad deeply.†   (source)
  • She was fond of my late son and suspects you of having some part in his demise.†   (source)
  • And now you're gonna get a tragic demise!"†   (source)
  • They were saving the world from its own demise.†   (source)
  • By the end of the week, Galbatorix's demise shall be known throughout the greater part of Alagaesia.†   (source)
  • He had heard about Gabriel's pending promotion, and Uzi Navot's impending demise.†   (source)
  • Normally I am not threatened with a demise.†   (source)
  • At the very least, it might prolong his inevitable demise.†   (source)
  • Everything he had ever believed about the demise of the Illuminati was suddenly looking like a brilliant sham.†   (source)
  • TRAGIC DEMISE OF MINISTRY OF MAGIC WORKER St Mungo's Hospital promised a full inquiry last night after Ministry of Magic worker Broderick Bode, 49, was discovered dead in his . bed, strangled by a pot plant.†   (source)
  • I could see it behind my lids — I could see Victoria's face, her lips pulled back over her teeth, her crimson eyes glowing with the obsession of her vendetta; she held Edward responsible for the demise of her love, James.†   (source)
  • The agent of his demise was wild potato, H. alpinum, the species plainly identified as nontoxic inTanaina Plantlore.†   (source)
  • How can it be that today, in the face of 12's horrible demise, we are too angry to even speak to each other?†   (source)
  • But unfortunately, it turned out there was more to the agreement: I, the undersigned, Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo, agree to fulfill the duties of heir to Artur Christoff Phillipe Gerard Grimaldi Renaldo, prince of Genovia, and all that such a role entails, including but not exclusive to, assuming the throne upon the latter's demise and attending functions of state at which the presence of said heir is deemed essential.†   (source)
  • Chief among his current considerations as he stood brooding over Carl Heine's naked form was to determine the precise cause of Carl's demise—or rather to determine how the deceased had become the deceased, for to think of the slab of flesh before him as Carl, Horace reminded himself, would make doing what he had to do difficult.†   (source)
  • As thrilled as we are by the prospect of flying, we are also frightened at the prospect of falling, and anything that seems to defy the inevitability of a plummeting demise sets our imaginations working overtime.†   (source)
  • One moment Dodge was fighting The Cat as an equal; the next The Cat was rearing back to lance him with a claw through the gut, Dodge defiantly facing his demise as— "Dodge!"†   (source)
  • At night we overheard strange, tearful arguments, in which Mother spoke in a quiet, slurred, slow-motion voice, like a phonograph record on the wrong speed, outlining the possibilities for our family's demise.†   (source)
  • Unlike Hawthorne's character's demise, though, Jim's is also heartbreaking—to the woman who is his de facto wife, to old Stein, the trader who sent him in-country, and to readers, who come to hope for something heroic and uplifting, something suitably romantic, for the incorrigibly romantic Jim.†   (source)
  • James is a literary realist, hardly the most flamboyantly symbolic of writers, but when he can kill off a character in a highly lifelike way while employing an apt metaphor for her demise, he doesn't hesitate.†   (source)
  • Martin Vanger's unexpected demise was the top story on the 9:00 news on the radio when Blomkvist woke up.†   (source)
  • She suspected, with good reason, that his demise had to do with the fact that he no longer had access to the money in a certain bank in the Cayman Islands, which he may have needed to pay off certain debts in Colombia.†   (source)
  • Our lives and deaths—the boy dies of blood loss and shock—are as nothing to the universe, of which the best that can be said is that it is indiffer-ent, though it may be actively interested in our demise.†   (source)
  • Rather, Ban-ford's demise figures the sexual tensions and gender-role confusion of modern society as Lawrence sees it, a world in which the essential qualities of men and women have been lost in the demands of technology and the excessive emphasis on intellect over instinct.†   (source)
  • Demise?†   (source)
  • The idea pleased her, and she ate the rest of the meal with relish, all the while plotting how she might arrange the man's demise.†   (source)
  • Mark lost his grip on the flashlight, which went tumbling end over end outside; a clang and the crack of glass signaled its demise.†   (source)
  • OOH, A DEMISE!†   (source)
  • It was hard to believe the little man had it in him to murder his own sire, but the fact of Lord Tywin's demise seemed to be beyond doubt.†   (source)
  • Muggers, as far as he knew, didn't work in gangs, and it was unlikely that the first mugger had criminal friends who had decided to take revenge on him for their comrade's demise.†   (source)
  • For three years after, the Horde braved only the occasional skirmish, always to their own terrible demise.†   (source)
  • He distantly registered the sound of sirens, but convinced of his imminent demise, he couldn't summon the energy to care.†   (source)
  • Sure, it was easy to say that Avery was a cad and that the demise of their relationship had been all his fault, but at the same time, he must have felt that the relationship was lacking somehow.†   (source)
  • Just: Untimely demise.†   (source)
  • He jumped back up on the desk and resumed his search in the Book that recorded the colored forest's demise.†   (source)
  • The Veterans Administration informed her by mail the very next day that she would be entitled to pension benefits for the rest of her natural life because of her husband's demise, and to a burial allowance for him of $250.†   (source)
  • His is an old man's demise, a chilly lessening, which is not right for a child (if any end is), who in the terrible waiting matures with a bittersweet swiftness, a quickened growing up in order to die.†   (source)
  • If he attends the theater with Lincoln, which is a very real possibility, Booth can kill the two most prominent architects of the South's demise within seconds.†   (source)
  • 'You keep begging for a quick demise, Major,' said Bourne as pandemonium reached its height within the grounds of the Victorian sterile house.†   (source)
  • Dismay gripped her; she had made no arrangements for the Varden in the event of her own demise, an oversight that now seemed a monumental failing.†   (source)
  • That is one reason why many dragons did not choose to prolong their existence beyond the demise of their flesh.†   (source)
  • Grief and guilt had been known to drive good men into madness, and Archibald Yronwood and Gerris Drinkwater had both played roles in their friend's demise.†   (source)
  • If so, then he guessed he, Saphira, and Glaedr would make the brightest, most spectacular shooting star in living memory, if anyone was close enough to see their demise so far out to sea.†   (source)
  • Anyway, the slaughter would be pointless if reinforcements were nearby, for their arrival would surely signal Carvahall's demise.†   (source)
  • "For the record," said Carter, "I was very relieved to learn that the reports of your demise were premature.†   (source)
  • Therefore, in order to help ensure your survival, and as a precaution against our possible demise, Glaedr has, with my blessing, decided to ….†   (source)
  • by the time we join back up with ellen in the pages to come, there have been hints of a conspiracy first forming, and then growing, between the mistress of the house and her maid. ellen will not allow the speciFIcs of this conspiracy to reach her pages, for fear of her diary's discovery, but it is quite evident that john rimbauer is the target and that plans have already formed to set into motion john rimbauer's demise.†   (source)
  • For although it was true the talk throughout the camp was still of the glorious brightness of our ultimate victory and its forever dawning reach, the surer truth as yet unspoken was that we were now squarely facing the dark visage of our demise.†   (source)
  • I begged for her demise.†   (source)
  • When it came to Helgrind and the various holdings of the priests—who had gone into hiding as soon as news of Galbatorix's demise had reached them—Eragon did not bother trying to determine which spells were dangerous and which were not; he removed them all.†   (source)
  • Plus, he couldn't exactly focus on there actually being a future anyway, what with his imminent demise on the horizon.†   (source)
  • Also, it's hard to charge straight to your own demise, even if you know it won't be permanent—especially if that demise involves large amounts of pain.†   (source)
  • During the quiet, inactive hours I've been stuck inside the house, I've been thinking again, too, of what it would mean for Patrick Hickey to survive, of the awful accident or gradual demise of another young boy or girl with the exactly right heart, and I begin to imagine—or even hope—that the necessary and terrible thing will happen, just come to pass, for it seems that if there should be a price to pay for darkly willing an innocent person's fate, I may as well pay it, and not the…†   (source)
  • Ignatius considered engaging her in conversation, toying with her until the moment of her demise, but there was no time.†   (source)
  • Enjoy your demise, amateurs.†   (source)
  • Don't make me witness your demise.†   (source)
  • Before he went inside, he took a deep breath—both for bravery and to bring with him a little piece of the outside world, the world where he was slowly getting past the pain of their demise, the world where he was beginning to feel safe once again.†   (source)
  • However, my heart was still with the art of the novel—said to be moribund or even, Lord help us, dead as a smelt—and I was pleased that year of 1967 to be able to disprove its demise (to my personal satisfaction at least) by publishing a work which, in addition to fulfilling my own philosophical and aesthetic requirements as a novelist, found hundreds of thousands of readers—not all of them, as it turned out later, completely happy about the event.†   (source)
  • I am, as you also know,bon catholique , and his demise seemed to me fortunate.†   (source)
  • Jokes about his approaching demise can hardly be agreeable to him.†   (source)
  • It was over Sir Pitt Crawley's house; but it did not indicate the worthy baronet's demise.†   (source)
  • He was hastening his own demise.†   (source)
  • He kept on dreaming the same dream: a telegram was handed to him one morning, early, which announced the Vicar's sudden demise, and freedom was in his grasp.†   (source)
  • …and walking towards Meseglise-la-Vineuse, during that autumn when we had to come to Combray to settle the division of my aunt Leonie's estate; for she had died at last, leaving both parties among her neighbours triumphant in the fact of her demise—those who had insisted that her mode of life was enfeebling and must ultimately kill her, and, equally, those who had always maintained that she suffered from some disease not imaginary, but organic, by the visible proof of which the most…†   (source)
  • Surrounded by a black border were the words: "Praskovya Fedorovna Golovina, with profound sorrow, informs relatives and friends of the demise of her beloved husband Ivan Ilych Golovin, Member of the Court of Justice, which occurred on February the 4th of this year 1882. the funeral will take place on Friday at one o'clock in the afternoon.†   (source)
  • We are thinking of the recent demise of old Consul Tienappel, Ham's great-uncle and foster father, of faded memory.†   (source)
  • It was at that same period, immediately after his mother's demise, that sixteen-year-old Leo made the acquaintance of Father Unterpertinger.†   (source)
  • The dates, however, had their own delicate individuality—on the whole these life spans had been strikingly short, the difference in years between birth and demise averaging little more than twenty.†   (source)
  • She knew, moreover, that her skinflint relatives would hardly want to hear anything about the expense of transporting her home after her demise and that she would be allotted a modest plot up above for a final resting place.†   (source)
  • There's a fellow over at Schatzalp, a Greek farmer, sent up here from Arcadia by an agent of the sanatorium—a hopeless case of galloping consumption, they expect his demise any day, but not one bacillus has ever been counted in his sputum.†   (source)
  • But the local custom of discretion had meant that he learned of Karen's demise too late and that she had already been placed in a permanent horizontal position, in the garden of the cupid whose snowy cap was cocked to one side.†   (source)
  • And after his demise—well, even after that, Hans Castorp's relationship to the local landscape, if one ignores his ski outings, had maintained its conservative, monotone character, a trait that had held a certain special charm for the young man when he contrasted it with the range of his inner experiences and the duties involved in "playing king.†   (source)
  • Researchers had been able to isolate and concentrate the toxins from several such microorganisms and were amazed to find that, if injected into an animal's bloodstream, even tiny doses of such materials, which could be classified as simple proteins, produced the most acute toxic effects, leading to rapid demise.†   (source)
  • Was not a bowl of wine the cause of the demise of Alexander the Great, or, at least, does not Dr. Lempriere say so?†   (source)
  • 'property'—accrue—demise!†   (source)
  • The felicitous word "demise," which had seasonably occurred to him, had raised his spirits even above their usual evening pitch.†   (source)
  • He came again in the evening to speak with Mr. Vincy, who, just returned from Stone Court, was feeling sure that it would not be long before he heard of Mr. Featherstone's demise.†   (source)
  • When the demise took place, her husband was in London attending to some of his innumerable schemes, and busy with his endless lawyers.†   (source)
  • Considered as a demise, old Featherstone's death assumed a merely legal aspect, so that Mr. Vincy could tap his snuff-box over it and be jovial, without even an intermittent affectation of solemnity; and Mr. Vincy hated both solemnity and affectation.†   (source)
  • suffered considerable diminution, and grown so decrepit and feeble with old age as to threaten demise altogether.†   (source)
  • —As to my own concern with any report of such a nature, I distinctly affirm that I never made any statement to the effect that your son had borrowed money on any property that might accrue to him on Mr. Featherstone's demise—bless my heart!†   (source)
  • His Excellency Colonel Rawdon Crawley died of yellow fever at Coventry Island, most deeply beloved and deplored, and six weeks before the demise of his brother, Sir Pitt.†   (source)
  • At his lamented demise, he was found himself to be possessor of many of his heir's bonds, purchased for their benefit, and devised by his Lordship to the children of his younger son.†   (source)
  • We are not going to follow the worthy old stockbroker through those last pangs and agonies of ruin through which he passed before his commercial demise befell.†   (source)
  • Many years after her ladyship's demise, Sir Pitt led to the altar Rosa, daughter of Mr. G. Dawson, of Mudbury, by whom he had two daughters, for whose benefit Miss Rebecca Sharp was now engaged as governess.†   (source)
  • Besides her pension of fifty pounds a year, there had been five hundred pounds, as her husband's executor stated, left in the agent's hands at the time of Osborne's demise, which sum, as George's guardian, Dobbin proposed to put out at 8 per cent in an Indian house of agency.†   (source)
  • His will was a good deal disputed, and an attempt was made to force from Madame de Belladonna the celebrated jewel called the "Jew's-eye" diamond, which his lordship always wore on his forefinger, and which it was said that she removed from it after his lamented demise.†   (source)
  • After remaining ten years Attache (several years after the lamented Lord Binkie's demise), and finding the advancement slow, he at length gave up the diplomatic service in some disgust, and began to turn country gentleman.†   (source)
  • And he began a long speech, explaining how straitened he himself was in money matters; how the tenants would not pay; how his father's affairs, and the expenses attendant upon the demise of the old gentleman, had involved him; how he wanted to pay off incumbrances; and how the bankers and agents were overdrawn; and Pitt Crawley ended by making a compromise with his sister-in-law and giving her a very small sum for the benefit of her little boy.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XLIV A Round-about Chapter between London and Hampshire Our old friends the Crawleys' family house, in Great Gaunt Street, still bore over its front the hatchment which had been placed there as a token of mourning for Sir Pitt Crawley's demise, yet this heraldic emblem was in itself a very splendid and gaudy piece of furniture, and all the rest of the mansion became more brilliant than it had ever been during the late baronet's reign.†   (source)
  • His first marriage with the daughter of the noble Binkie had been made under the auspices of his parents; and as he often told Lady Crawley in her lifetime she was such a confounded quarrelsome high-bred jade that when she died he was hanged if he would ever take another of her sort, at her ladyship's demise he kept his promise, and selected for a second wife Miss Rose Dawson, daughter of Mr. John Thomas Dawson, ironmonger, of Mudbury.†   (source)
  • …its woods, on the Shannon shore; Gaunt Castle, in Carmarthenshire, where Richard II was taken prisoner—Gauntly Hall in Yorkshire, where I have been informed there were two hundred silver teapots for the breakfasts of the guests of the house, with everything to correspond in splendour; and Stillbrook in Hampshire, which was my lord's farm, an humble place of residence, of which we all remember the wonderful furniture which was sold at my lord's demise by a late celebrated auctioneer.†   (source)
  • He was elected for the borough speedily after his father's demise; a magistrate, a member of parliament, a county magnate and representative of an ancient family, he made it his duty to show himself before the Hampshire public, subscribed handsomely to the county charities, called assiduously upon all the county folk, and laid himself out in a word to take that position in Hampshire, and in the Empire afterwards, to which he thought his prodigious talents justly entitled him.†   (source)
  • But words cannot describe the feelings of his admirable mother, when she learned, very shortly after her noble husband's demise, that her son was a member of several worldly clubs, had lost largely at play at Wattier's and the Cocoa Tree; that he had raised money on post-obits, and encumbered the family estate; that he drove four-in-hand, and patronised the ring; and that he actually had an opera-box, where he entertained the most dangerous bachelor company.†   (source)
  • —A sudden—at—the—moment—though—from—lingering—illness—often— previously—expectorated—demise, Lenehan added.†   (source)
  • The deceased gentleman was a most popular and genial personality in city life and his demise after a brief illness came as a great shock to citizens of all classes by whom he is deeply regretted.†   (source)
  • Or she knew him, that second I say, and was but creature of her creature, vergine madre, figlia di tuo figlio, or she knew him not and then stands she in the one denial or ignorancy with Peter Piscator who lives in the house that Jack built and with Joseph the joiner patron of the happy demise of all unhappy marriages, parceque M. Léo Taxil nous a dit que qui l'avait mise dans cette fichue position c'était le sacre pigeon, ventre de Dieu!†   (source)
  • attributes some of these demises to abdominal trauma in the case of women workers subjected to heavy labours in the workshop and to marital discipline in the home but by far the vast majority to neglect, private or official, culminating in the exposure of newborn infants, the practice of criminal abortion or in the atrocious crime of infanticide.†   (source)
  • The landlord and Sancho consented, and then Master Pedro picked up from the ground King Marsilio of Saragossa with his head off, and said, "Here you see how impossible it is to restore this king to his former state, so I think, saving your better judgments, that for his death, decease, and demise, four reals and a half may be given me."†   (source)
  • Flatter my sorrows with report of it; Tell me what state, what dignity, what honour, Canst thou demise to any child of mine?†   (source)
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