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Example sentences for "her death"

  • On her death-bed the mother confided to me her only child.

  • She wore it when he left her that night, and when he returned she was gone, and he did not see her again until her death-hour.

  • He is the witness of her death and of her fidelity, and this soothes his anguish.

  • But after she had lost both her father and her husband, he loved her most passionately, and without disguise; insomuch that he was the occasion of her death, by obliging her to procure a miscarriage when she was with child by him.

  • He was likewise distantly related to Livia, the wife of Augustus; by whose interest he was preferred from the station which he held in the palace, to the dignity of consul; and who left him a great legacy at her death.

  • Indignities of this kind, and ill usage, were the cause of her death; but some think he also gave her poison.

  • And one went and told Sir Launcelot that the queen was led forth to her death.

  • This argues what her kind of life hath been- Wicked and vile; and so her death concludes.

  • Peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall sing it at her death.

  • The stronger part of it by her own letters, which makes her story true even to the point of her death.

  • Her death itself, which could not be her office to say is come, was faithfully confirm'd by the rector of the place.

  • On several occasions she spoke to her confessor and chaplain, who attended her everywhere, of her death.

  • But it was by French wits and French ingenuity that she was tortured for three months and betrayed to her death.

  • But he could not help feeling the shock of her death which he must have heard of somewhere along the route.

  • Others may have been told, I was not, that Mrs. Fairbrother had received a communication from outside only a few minutes previous to her death.

  • What heart revelations, what pictures of contemporary life, were lost in the eight large volumes of his letters which were destroyed at her death!

  • Chateaubriand was there, watched over her last hours with Bertin, and wrote eloquently of her death.

  • The income would be at the wife's disposal, and the principal would go to her aunt or her cousin on her death.

  • Absolutely nothing--except in case of her death.

  • If that unhappy lady dies, I will give my testimony in a court of justice that your ignorance and obstinacy have been the cause of her death.

  • I am as little able to realise the idea which those two words convey--my mind feels almost as dulled and stunned by it--as if writing of her marriage were like writing of her death.

  • Her death was a shock and a distress, but she would not be passionately regretted.

  • That my mother should have made a will on the very day of her death!

  • On the contrary, Mrs. Inglethorp had taken the last dose on the day of her death.

  • My mother, at the time of her death, and for some time before it, was taking a tonic containing strychnine.

  • This is the first we have heard of the deceased taking strychnine at the time of her death.

  • It is his monstrous proposal that has caused her death; and the same folly has made the representative of his house a murderer and a felon.

  • They looked at her, and looked all around to see if they could perceive any sign of the cause of her death.

  • In truth the chance seemed to be a very good one, that it might never be known who gave that wretched girl her death.

  • And she had no word of reproach for this poor wretch who had wrought day and night with deceits and treacheries and hypocrisies to betray her to her death.

  • Nearly eight hundred of her letters, written to the Princess Wilhelmina Charlotte of Wales and the Duke Antoine-Ulric of Brunswick, were found amongst the papers left by the Duchess Elizabeth of Brunswick at her death, in 1767.

  • He was much affected at her death; but four days afterwards, by the chattering of old Maintenon, he was consoled.

  • The news of the Duc du Maine and his wife being arrested made her faint, and was probably the cause of her death, for from that time she had not a moment's repose or content.

  • There is no doubt that Fontange died by poison; she accused Montespan of being the cause of her death.

  • The Duc d'Antin, her only legitimate child, was also the only one who wept at her death.

  • The new parlor-maid engaged by Miss Loach on the day of her death--Susan Grant.

  • In fact, he was secretly glad to hear that Emilia Saul had met her death at the hand of a man she had injured.

  • Had she not rushed at me, had I not been holding the knife, she would not have met with her death.

  • I never open the papers but what I expect to read of her death by violence.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    former existence; her body; her breast; her cheek; her child; her children; her countenance; her country; her friends; her future; her grandmother; her hands; her lap; her love; her mother; her mouth; her own; her pocket; her right; her time; her whole; here referred; here shown; hereby amended; hereditary syphilis; hereditary transmission