"Violent death" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... occasionally happens, that the flesh in which the hooks are fastened gives way, in which case the poor creature is dashed to the ground. When this occurs, the people hold him in the greatest abhorrence. They judge him to be a great criminal, and suppose that he has met a violent death in consequence of sins which he ...
— Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. • Dr. John Scudder
... thy hap To find another that is like to thee, Good Rapine, stab him; he is a ravisher.— Go thou with them; and in the emperor's court There is a queen, attended by a Moor; Well mayst thou know her by thine own proportion, For up and down she doth resemble thee; I pray thee, do on them some violent death; They have been violent to me ...
— The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... in consequence of which they gave him the name of Rundi. Certain it is, they pressed him to show his side, and asked if he had not received a wound there—evidently as if the original Rundi had met with a violent death from a spear-wound in that place. The whole tribe, amounting in number to upwards of 150, assembled to see us take our departure. Four of them accompanied us, among whom there was one remarkable for personal ...
— Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete • Charles Sturt
... been a very horrid sight to them on their entrance into the room; for to all appearance, I seemed to have suffered a violent death, either by my own rashness, or the cruelty of some murderer, as the pistols had fallen ...
— Evelina • Fanny Burney
... though it were the eye of some fierce monster slowly winking amid the gloom of space. The two stars called the Aselli, which lie on either side of the cluster Praesepe, 'are said' (by astrologers) 'to be of a burning nature, and to give great indications of a violent death, or of violent and severe accidents by fire.' The star called Cor Hydrae, or the serpent's heart, denotes trouble through women (said I not rightly that Astrology was a masculine science?); the Lion's heart, Regulus, implied glory and ...
— Myths and Marvels of Astronomy • Richard A. Proctor
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