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Example sentences for "fell dead"

  • Loring, who had already been wounded, himself led this last charge and fell dead in the act.

  • Captain Bradbury, in command, had one leg taken off by a shell, but he propped himself up, and continued to direct the fire till he fell dead.

  • The losses of the Grenadiers were very severe, and, as in the case of the other two companies, the leader, Major Colby, fell dead at the head of his men.

  • Talleyrand, when he fell dead in his armchair.

  • His last horse, which he had doubtless spared less than the others, fell dead in the court of the chateau.

  • At the first charge at the Mortar Battery, the Russian leader, who wore an Albanian costume, and whose gallantry was most conspicuous, fell dead.

  • It knocked away the side of his face, and he fell dead--a horrible sight.

  • A ball struck him in the breast, and our savage, for it was he, fell dead in front of the fire.

  • A child to whom its mother had given fruit fell dead; they gathered about its body in terror.

  • Medici in Florence, fell dead on the ears of the people.

  • When the first giant saw that, he ran away mad with fear; but Sir Lancelot ran after him, and smote him through the shoulder, and shore him down his back, so that he fell dead.

  • So both knights made them ready and galloped their horses towards each other, and the Brown Knight brake his spear upon Sir Gareth's shield; but Sir Gareth smote him through the body so that he fell dead.

  • So they let their horses run at full speed, and Sir Gareth smote Sir Bendelaine through his body so sorely that he scarcely reached his castle ere he fell dead.

  • Whereat he turned and set his spear, and smote Sir Percival's hackney in the breast, so that it fell dead, and then went on his way.

  • But Sir Lancelot stepped on one side, that the blow fell harmless, and with his arm he gave Sir Colgrevance a buffet on the head so that he fell dead.

  • You shall not go with me," said the carter, but hardly had he uttered the words when Sir Lancelot leapt up into the cart, and gave him such a buffet that he fell dead on the ground.

  • The Knight turned and set his spear against Sir Percivale, and smote the hackney in the breast, so that he fell dead to the earth, and Sir Percivale fell with him; then the Knight rode away.

  • All the officers of the 88th fell dead or wounded; the sergeants then took command of companies, and led the men on.

  • He fell dead at the taking of rifle pits, that were afterwards named Egerton's pits; he was one of the biggest men I ever saw in uniform.

  • The poor boy (for he was not much more) requested me not leave him; and he fell dead by my side, just outside the Redan.

  • Then Beltenebros hit him a thwart blow with his sword across the bever, straight over both eyes, and through both, that he fell dead.

  • Yet before his senses were gone he recovered his sword that hung from his wrist by the chain, and thrust it through the vizor of Cartadaque's helmet; the Giant's gripe relaxed, and he fell dead.

  • Amadis stood in his stirrups, and gave him a blow on his head, and cut away the trappings of his helmet and the skin of his head, and the sword held on and came upon the neck of the horse, so that he fell dead, and the rider senseless.

  • At that moment a storm arose, and a rain fell that put out the fire; but as the last glow faded the lady fell dead.

  • The boy had wonderful power: he had only to point at a moose or a duck or a bear, and it fell dead, so that the tribe never wanted food.

  • At the first shot its leg was broken; at the second, it fell dead.

  • So the king and his wife dismounted, and the female elephant having drunk water, owing to its being bad, fell dead on the spot.

  • And when it fell dead, he threw it out of the window, and in his delight at having escaped that danger, the coward danced for joy.

  • And then that Daitya, smitten by the thunderbolt, fell dead.

  • Then Samarabhata, being prevented from using his chariot, ran and struck with a javelin on the forehead the splendid elephant of Bhimabhata, and the elephant, as soon as it was struck, fell dead on the ground.

  • The other was ready, and they fought; but it was not for long, for Pellinore gave Sir Ontzlake so stern a stroke on the helmet that he clove his head to the chin, and he fell dead to the earth.

  • Then Geraint drew his sword, and smote the giant so fiercely on the crown of the head that it was split down to his shoulders, and he fell dead in that place.

  • He reached the wounded man, and was just lifting him up when a bullet pierced his brain and he fell dead.

  • The jaguar collected itself for a spring, but at that moment a shot struck it in the eyes, and it fell dead.

  • Both the horses recoiled with the violence of the shock; but the unknown knight's recovered itself at the touch of the spur; the Saracen king's fell dead, and bore down his master with him.

  • Florismart was unhorsed and his steed fell dead, while Bayard sustained no injury by the shock.

  • Before he could fire a shot was heard and the man fell dead.

  • As he neared the door a crack of a rifle was heard and the ruffian fell dead in his tracks.

  • I'll do 'em justice to say that they fought stiff enough then, and for four hours they held the line of houses; every redskin who climbed the stockade fell dead inside it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    broke down; continued till; fell ance; fell asleep; fell calm; fell dead; fell down; fell downe; fell fast; fell from; fell into; fell mortally; fell upon; fellow countrymen; fellow creature; fellow like; fellow prisoners; fiscal agent; flow through; fresh pork; hard master; here speaking; know very; lone hand; that province; was the