When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

For hundreds of years, the evidence available consisted of ( 1 ) the captain's fragmentary journal, ( 2 ) a highly prejudiced account by one of the survivors, ( 3 ) a note found in a dead man's desk on board, and ( 4 ) several second-hand reports.

To live correctly in an interdependent moral and material universe of living and dead was decisive for man's fate.

He is blinded in no man's land and believed to be dead by his friends.

The dead man's knoll, you pass,

Since there is no heir to inherit Elimelech's land, levirate custom required a close relative ( usually the dead man's brother ) to marry the widow of the deceased in order to continue his family line ( Deuteronomy 25: 5 – 10 ).

Sitting Bull, most renowned Sioux of modern history, is dead .</ br >< p > He was not a Chief, but without Kingly lineage he arose from a lowly position to the greatest Medicine Man of his time, by virtue of his shrewdness and daring .</ br >< p > He was an Indian with a white man's spirit of hatred and revenge for those who had wronged him and his.

Cut off the ends of the root and bury it at night in some country churchyard in a dead man's grave.

When the thirty-first day arrives, take out the root in the middle of the night and dry it in an oven heated with branches of verbena ; then wrap it up in a piece of a dead man's winding-sheet and carry it with you everywhere.

* A dead man's body that was thrown into the dead Elisha's tomb is resurrected when the body touches Elisha's bones ( 2 Kings 13: 21 )

" As an example, Davidson cites a funeral dirge from the Gondi people in India as recorded by Verrier Elwin, stating that " it contains references to Bagri Maro, the horse with eight legs, and it is clear from the song that it is the dead man's bier.

:* See dead man's switch, a more extreme example that, depending on its placement in the system, can be used to render a system " safe " and / or " secure " against a failure that disables it.

Lawrence takes up the dead man's cry, resulting in a massacre in which Lawrence himself participates with relish.

In other incidents, Duvalier ordered the head of an executed rebel packed in ice and brought to him so he could commune with the dead man's spirit.

In 1956, years before being cast as Dr. McCoy, Kelley played a small supporting role as a medic in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit in which he utters the diagnosis " This man's dead, Captain " and " That man is dead " to Gregory Peck.

Lewis insists that they would not receive a fair trial and that the jury would be composed of the dead man's friends and relatives.

The men vow to keep their story a secret for the rest of their lives, which proves to be psychologically burdensome for Ed ; in the final scene, he awakes screaming from a nightmare in which a dead man's hand rises from the lake.

On one occasion in 2006, while requiring a liver transplant ( due to chronic alcoholism ), Roger became a hit-and-run driver: he ran over and killed a motorcyclist without stopping, later receiving the dead man's liver for himself, then celebrating the successful liver transplant with a booze-up at the nearest pub.

Sometimes magical tricks, and even dead man's hand, were required as well, to uncover the treasure.

Despite modern man's claims to be nonreligious, he ultimately cannot find value in the linear progression of historical events ; even modern man feels the " Terror of history ": " Here too [...] there is always the struggle against Time, the hope to be freed from the weight of ' dead Time ,' of the Time that crushes and kills.

However, at the decisive moment when the new executive was about to sign a five-year contract, he keeled over and died, forcing Alan to forge the dead man's signature.

*" The Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleager's Will ": The disposal of a dead man's fortune depends on his penchant for cross-word puzzles.

Numerous explanations of the ' story ' have been put forward: that it is a version of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth ; that it represents the relationship between patient and psychoanalyst ; that it all takes place in the woman's mind ; that it all takes place in the man's mind, and depicts his refusal to acknowledge that he has killed the woman he loved ; that the characters are ghosts or dead souls in limbo ; etc.

The CDC 6600 ( c. 1964 ) had a dead start panel with 144 toggle switches ; the dead start switch entered 12 words from the toggle switches to the memory of peripheral processor ( PP ) 0 and initiated the load sequence.

In addition, for repeated seeking operations, pressing a foot switch on the driver's floor up to the left where the " dead pedal " is located on modern cars would reactivate the Seek at whatever sensitivity was last selected.

Handcuffed to the bed and forced to enter a drug-induced sleep, he pleads with her to switch his chart with that of a criminal in the next bed or he will be dead by morning.

Now aware that the engineer must be dead, the three must get to the lead engine so that they can press its fuel cutoff switch.

An unknown man entered the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce heavily armed and wearing a " dead man's switch ", a device utilising a clothespin, wires, battery and dynamite, where the user holds the clothespin in the mouth, exerting force on the clothespin.

Myung-hyun advances into the grandstand with her rifle, while Park and three other men, now disguised as South Korean SWAT officers in uniforms stolen from the dead policemen, enter the stadium control room, killing everyone there and forcing the remaining staff to switch on the stadium lights to trigger the CTX.

* Lawn mower throttle and dead man's switch

In addition, the blades of self-powered push mowers ( gasoline or electric ) can injure a careless or inattentive operator ; as such, many come equipped with a dead man's switch to immediately stop the blade rotation when it is not being operated.

A dead man's switch in a high altitude truck

A dead man's switch ( for other names, see alternative names ) is a switch that is automatically operated in case the human operator becomes incapacitated, such as through death or loss of consciousness.

The switch, a form of fail-safe, is usually wired so that it stops a machine by breaking a series circuit, although a spring-operated " dead man's switch " can be used to activate a system by completing a circuit when it is no longer held down ( as in some explosive vests detonated by suicide bombers ).

A dead man's switch may also be used to activate a harmful device, such as a bomb or IED.

In modern New York City Subway trains, for example, the dead man's switch is incorporated into the train's speed control.

The dead man switch on a treadmill usually consists of an external magnet controlling the circuitry that provides power to the treadmill belt.

Strategic Air Command developed a dead man's switch for its nuclear bombers, known as Special Weapons Emergency Separation System ( SWESS ), that ensured the nuclear payload detonated in the event of the crew becoming incapacitated through enemy action.

A hybrid between a dead man's switch and a vigilance control device is a dead-man's vigilance device.

An example of a software based dead man's switch is Dead Man's Switch which starts when the computer boots up and can encrypt or delete user specified data if an unauthorised user should ever gain access to the protected computer.

Many spacecraft use a form of dead man's switch to guard against command system failures.

While having some similarities to a dead man's switch, this type of device ( a command loss timer ) is not actually a dead man's switch, because it aims to recover from a hardware failure rather than the absence of human operators.