Out in front of our walls the grass was covered with dead and dying men, war shields, lances, blankets and wounded and dead horses.

there was no doubt he was dying.

laughing at a dying man, laughing as a man was beaten to death.

Though the slave's dying words about the woman troubled the coroner's panel, Dandy's accusation was adjudged an aberration by the jury and disregarded.

To speak of Papa dying was a sin.

I decided I hated the Pedersen kid too, dying in our kitchen while I was away where I couldn't watch, dying just to entertain Hans and making me go up snapping steps and down a drafty hall, Pa lumped under the covers at the end like dung covered with snow, snoring and whistling.

for to attend the dying was something she had never experienced, and certainly had not imagined when she thought of the duties she would have as Bobby Joe's wife.

Once in a while they said what a shame it was, with Granny dying, but they all agreed she wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

And if he did stand on the margins of modernity, it was not in dying a martyr for such unity as Papal supremacy might be able to force on Western Christendom.

As man can live only by dying, so it was only by his dying that Christ could bring many to life.

All the fine old stock was dying out, look at the world today.

It never registered with them that I had time to read all of Balzac, Dickens, and Stendhal while Papa was dying, not to mention everything in the city library after Mother's operation.

And then it moved a little more, and I knew the snake was dying, and I would have to kill it there.

' His Nemesis, a prose tragedy in four acts about Beatrice Cenci, partly inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Cenci, was printed while he was dying.

MacDougall weighed dying patients in an attempt to prove that the soul was material, tangible and thus measurable.

As he was dying on the voyage back from Egypt, he gave instructions to those close to him that they should not be responsible for making any image of his person, be it modeled or painted or copied, " For if I have accomplished any glorious feat, that will be my memorial.

She was never considered legitimate and, when the king was dying, no one took her as a serious contender for the crown.

The Athenian politician Aristides would spend the rest of his life occupied in the affairs of the alliance, dying ( according to Plutarch ) a few years later in Pontus, whilst determining what the tax of new members was to be.

At three years of age Canova was deprived of both parents, his father dying and his mother remarrying.

It was meant to insult him, and didn't quite succeed.

It was really quite simple.

I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.

This young slave was therefore quite unprepared when Delphine Lalaurie signaled that she wanted him to draw near.

He must have fallen in with evil companions, for he was a simple youth and quite trusting and inexperienced.

Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

In the early days of a homogeneous population, the public school was quite satisfactory.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

The Acropolis was unique in the world and if that imcomparable work flooded by moonlight wasn't enough for both natives and tourists, then they were quite simply barbarians and the hell with them.

What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.

To the pope, head of the universal Church, to the duke of Burgundy, taking full advantage of his position on the borders of France and of the Empire, or to Othon, who found it quite natural that he should do homage to Edward for Tipperary and to the count of Savoy for Grandson, Flotte's outspoken nationalism was completely incomprehensible.

On January 4, with the boys back at school and college, Mrs. Lewis wrote Harcourt to say that she was `` through, quite through ''.

It was a dinner party, Lewis had been drinking during the afternoon, and long before the party really got under way, he was quite drunk, with the result that the party broke up even before dinner was over.

But Sojourner was not easily excited or upset and said quite calmly: `` Let's go and see what it's like ''.

Wilkes was quite right about one thing.

It was rather a childish game, all in all, but everybody seemed to be getting into the spirit of the thing and he could not remember when he had enjoyed planning anything quite so much.

The wording of the question was quite general and may have been subject to different interpretations.

It is quite likely that an even greater area was covered, particularly downwind.

But the information on the dynamics of population was often quite misleading.

Alcohol ingestion succeeded in changing immobility to mobility quite strikingly in one pilot subject ( the only one with whom this technique was tried ).