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Example sentences for "kill himself"

  • Perhaps he wants to kill himself too," said Monsieur Gault.

  • Lucien means to kill himself," she added in a whisper to Europe.

  • He cannot fear the rack, who is resolved to kill himself.

  • It is for fear of something that he has resolved to kill himself; and will not that timid disposition restrain him?

  • When a man is condemned to death, he has not to kill himself, but to suffer death: wherefore he is not bound to do anything from which death would result, such as to stay in the place whence he would be led to execution.

  • Therefore it is lawful for a man to kill himself.

  • Even so, if a man were condemned to die of hunger, he does not sin if he partakes of food brought to him secretly, because to refrain from taking it would be to kill himself.

  • Objection 1: It would seem lawful for a man to kill himself.

  • Tell me, Lester," and he looked at me earnestly, "do you think that poor devil came in here just to get a chance to kill himself quietly?

  • He came here of intention, and the intention wasn't to kill himself, either.

  • Perhaps that unfortunate man was sincere when he wrote to you, sincere in attempting to kill himself, sincere in returning that same night to Florine.

  • He tried to kill himself without a word to you, my dear,--and all for want of money.

  • Dan was going to kill himself in two days' time.

  • I'd somehow managed to forget that Dan, my good friend Dan, was going to kill himself.

  • Dan -- Dan was going to kill himself soon, and if I restored myself from my old backup, I'd lose my last year with him.

  • Raoul was about to kill himself: his mother prayed to God to grant her one day, not even a day, one night; as if in this space of time some unexpected relief would come to end her misery.

  • He was about to kill himself; I was so frightened!

  • In his first moments of despair, Caldas wished to kill himself.

  • Under many circumstances a man has the right to kill himself.

  • Ingersoll's Letter, The Right to One's Life Colonel Ingersoll's Eloquent Reply to His Critics In the article written by me about suicide the ground was taken that "under many circumstances a man has the right to kill himself.

  • The first question, then, is: Has a man under any circumstances the right to kill himself?

  • If, in the cases I have supposed, men would have the right to take their lives, then I was right when I said that "under many circumstances a man has a right to kill himself.

  • He forced Silanus, his father-in-law, to kill himself, by cutting his throat with a razor.

  • He drove Antony to kill himself, after he had used every effort to obtain conditions of peace, and he saw his corpse [126].

  • He shrieked his despair aloud, he was half mad, he wished to kill himself, saying that he was the murderer and that he ought to have prevented Rose from so rashly riding home through the storm!

  • And so, even if she should now let Denis, in his turn, kill himself, another Froment was coming who would replace him.

  • Whilst Plautius Silvanus was upon his trial, Urgulania, his grandmother, sent him a poniard with which, not being able to kill himself, he made his servants cut his veins.

  • Albucilla in Tiberius time having, to kill himself, struck with too much tenderness, gave his adversaries opportunity to imprison and put him to death their own way.

  • You mean that he tried to kill himself, and failed?

  • When was it that Robert Elwell tried to kill himself?

  • He refused to be swept aside as an irresponsible dreamer--even if he had to kill himself in the end, he would not do so before proving to society that he had deserved death from it.

  • IN the article written by me about suicide the ground was taken that "under many circumstances a man has the right to kill himself.

  • If it had not been for the recent works of Berti and Mayor, who would have believed that Cavour twice attempted to kill himself?

  • His condition reached such a point that, to avoid greater evils and to leave an insipid life, he wished to kill himself.

  • One day, at the Castle of Diluzers, at Balangero, he threw himself into so violent a rage on being asked to study that he wished to kill himself with a knife and throw himself from the window.


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