It was the deathbed statement of Theodomir which in a whimsical moment he had drawn up for the entertainment of your father.
This disaster weighed greatly on the mind of the Emperor Kimmei, whose last behest uttered on his deathbed was that Mimana should be recovered.
Lorenzo de Medici, who during his life had made many attempts to win the support of Savonarola, and had always been repulsed, could not die without entreating the great preacher to visit him on his deathbed and grant him absolution.
Heriot among them; but a telegram summoning him to his wife's deathbedhad just reached him.
On his deathbed he said to me 'It has taken me fifty years to learn my trade, and to paint all the foolish pictures a man must paint and get rid of before he comes through them to the great things he ought to paint.
They made their peace with God, and I have seldom assisted at a deathbed and felt greater consolation than I did in each and both of these.
Often he simply ignored it as irrelevant: "Never mind" he said on his deathbed to his last convert "Never mind, whether other teachers are right or wrong.
To us, however, this interesting memorial of a Pagan deathbed is irrevocably lost.
The poet Gray, in describing the deserted deathbed of our own great Edward III.
He was one of those whom John designated on his deathbed for a council of regency (1216).
The same pope attended the deathbed of Raphael, as Francis I.
The remembrance of that deathbed came vividly before me, and the dying man's fantastic threat rang again in my startled ears.
He left the deathbed of the unfortunate sinner without having expressed one of the conflicting emotions which filled his heart.
Here instead was what the world would consider a fallen woman, who on her deathbed regarded her weakness as her strength, her shame as her glory, and who seemed to expect him to take the same view of the matter.
To that old man I owe the power of speech to argue, to exhort, and to comfort;--he was training me to kneel by the deathbed of his son!
You believe," asked the Man of the World, "in the efficacy of a deathbed repentance, when a sinner has sinned till the power of sinning be gone?
You see, I have been abroad six months attending thedeathbed of my mother.
The experience of her husband's deathbed had impressed her with an idea that dangerous illness must be accompanied by terrible prostration, delirium, raging fever, dull stupor.
And then there suddenly flashed back upon her the too vivid picture of that deathbed scene, and she heard the dull thick voice murmuring feebly words of love and praise.
Scully is something better, he lies, I fear, in a very precarious state, while dearest Miss Mitford's letters from the deathbed of her father make my heart ache as surely almost as the post comes.
But on his deathbedhe had one single desire, and that was to see her and obtain her pardon.
A notorious Breton captain on his deathbed said: 'Such has been my manner of carrying on war, in truth, I cared not against whom.
He had just finished his deathbed confession and stood upon a secure footing on the terra firma of faith, awaiting the summons from above.
The clergyman bowed to Shagarach and departed--from the deathbed to the wedding service, from the grave to the cradle of life, so wide was the compass of his ministrations.
Even on hisdeathbed he continued unweariedly to teach and write.
On his deathbedhe seemed to have returned to the old times, when John was a little fellow.
She had stood by the deathbed and looked into the dim and terrible eyes of death, and felt as though a horrible nightmare was oppressing her, and then at last she had got away, and at last, at last she was at home.
My father was a good man, his mind was not wandering at all, why should he on his deathbed have said this if he knew that he had made such an unjust will, if he knew that he had left my mother and her little child without a sixpence?
Charles II died in 1685 and the scene at his deathbed encouraged in England suspicions of Catholic policy and in France hope that this policy was near its climax of success.
On her deathbed she made me promise to give it you when you came of age, and to train you, up to that age, as far as possible, with a disregard for dress and show.
On her deathbed she exclaimed in humble modesty, and with a bright smile on her face: 'Oh!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deathbed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: agony; deathbed; extremity; later; parting
