And he got his deathblow on the slope of that same Capitol where Gracchus and Manlius had died before him, each in good cause.
Theodosius the Great gave its deathblowto Arianism.
The guard desired to offer armed resistance, but Boniface refused to shed blood, and, according to the report of an old woman, received his deathblow holding the gospel over his head.
Portugal, France, Spain, and Italy rested not till they got the pope himself to strike the deathblow to the Jesuits, who had been his chief supporters indeed, but who had now become his masters.
But she had left him and married another, and so stricken a deathblowto his love.
Strike such a deathblow to her loving heart as Claudia had stricken to his?
It seemed a deathblow to all hope, a dreary realization of that vague dread which had pursued him from the first.
And in the meantime, you will try and ascertain the real state of her feelings without distressing her in any way; and you will tell me the truth with all frankness, even if it is to be a deathblow to all my hopes?
This was practically a deathblow to the rebellion, though many of its horrors continued in isolated districts.
This conclusion would deal a deathblow to both empiricism and rationalism.
Each party ravaged the country as it passed, returning deathblow for deathblow and conflagration for conflagration, so that hearing one after another of these outrages Captain Poul demanded reinforcements from M.
Self-occupation is a deathblow to fellowship, and a great barrier to the soul's rest and progress.
To confound the two things is to deal a deathblow to all godly discipline and consequent purity in the assembly of God.
From the four points thus obtained draw lines intersecting the centre from one side of the circumference to the other.
That transaction dealt the deathblow to the Sechard establishment; but the old vinegrower did not trouble himself much on that head.
This was all his plan, and Etienne Lousteau, who had confided so much to him, knew his secret, knew how to deal a deathblow to the poet of Angouleme.
Although Cavalier failed in carrying the treaty into effect, so far as he was concerned, his secession at this juncture proved a deathblow to the insurrection.
You are aware that this idea, if it were not impracticable, would be a curse to humanity--a deathblow to civilization and progress, and throw back mankind by centuries.
The Austrian Empire, as you know, was established only in 1806, when the Rhenish confederacy of Napoleon struck the deathblow of the German empire, of which Francis II.
That all-glorious doctrine of Bible unity, which fills the whole New Testament, strikes a deathblow to all the carnal divisions and institutions of sectarianism; and so with one accord they unite in fighting it.
It gave the deathblow to the universal spiritual supremacy of Rome.
Its deathblow had been given it as a place for theatrical amusement by the astute Mr. William Niblo.
The Revolution dealt what was practically a deathblow to the order, for, though revived in 1804, it provoked ridicule as out of keeping with modern ideas.
But the failure of this last desperate enterprise gives the deathblow to the wicked and ambitious power of the usurpers at the head of the pretended confederacy.
The pernicious doctrine of State sovereignty as paramount to the national, has in this war received its deathblow at the hands of those who have always been its most zealous supporters.
But, peace restored, and the deathblow given to treason, the work of reform will commence.
