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Example sentences for "voluntary death"

  • The faith that he had propagated, during a long and prosperous life, he confirmed by a voluntary death.

  • A report, though of a very doubtful nature, has reached our times, that he prudently withdrew himself from their power by a voluntary death.

  • Even in this luxurious and effeminate time, men and women of all ranks and ages have shown themselves ready to escape from calamity or danger by a voluntary death.

  • He died a voluntary death, and wished for no tomb save what nature would give him.

  • This apparently placid and fortunate life was, like so many in those days, ended by a voluntary death.

  • Yet, even in his later years, men not unfrequently escaped from intolerable calamity or incurable disease by a voluntary death.

  • He was thrown into the Tower; and being conscious that his guilt could be proved upon him, at least that sentence would infallibly be pronounced against him, he freed himself from further prosecution by a voluntary death.

  • Voluntary death by fire of the old Prussian Kirwaido.

  • This forms a powerful motive to escape from decrepitude, or from a crippled condition, by a voluntary death.

  • This custom is derived from our canon law, which deprives of Christian burial such as die a voluntary death.

  • Three circumstances acted powerfully on Antony’s mind in inducing him to seek a voluntary death.

  • A voluntary death is never to be chosen as a relief from action, but as exemplary in itself, it being base to live or die only for ourselves.

  • A diseased temperament, a serious lesion of one or more of the viscera, a gradual exhaustion of the energies of the system, may so aggravate the miseries of life as to hasten the period of voluntary death.

  • Drunkenness was not the only sin on which the Brahmans imposed a penalty of voluntary death.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    beau monde; considered unlucky; four different; good home; having lived; life goes; meet his; native industry; often mentioned; quick movement; stated periods; then indeed; think much; thought proper; three sides; trade and; used here; voluntary actions; voluntary association; voluntary attention; voluntary contributions; voluntary death; voluntary power; what wouldst; without regard; would frequently