And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.

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

But the fighting marshal's fifty-year run of immunity from violent death came to a full and final stop one night in a street at Cromwell, Oklahoma, where he had been sent to clean up the gambling and vice rackets.

So the verdict was `` death at the hands of a person or persons unknown '', and the elite of the city, accepting Delphine's testimony, welcomed her and the doctor back into the fold.

The highroad, one might say at first, belongs to life, while the way to the churchyard belongs to death.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

After a sort of death march during four days without food, Helion and his comrades were shipped by cattle-car to a labor camp at an estate farm in East Germany.

Almost from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to stay at his side ; ;

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

The defeat and death of Adolf of Nassau at the hands of Albert of Habsburg also worked to the disadvantage of the English, for all the efforts to revive the anti-French coalition came to nothing when Philip made an alliance with the new king of the Romans.

I saw Sedgwick often before his death at ninety-five, -- he had remarried at the age of ninety, -- and he asked me, when once I returned from Rome, if I knew the Cavallinis in the church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere.

Thirteen Italian airmen who went to the Congo to serve the cause of peace under the United Nations banner have instead met violent death at the hands of Congolese troops supposedly their friends.

Harold, with brothers Frank, Joe and William, took over at the death of their father, Harry M. Stevens, who put a few dollars into a baseball program, introduced the `` hot dog '' and paved the way for creation of a catering empire.

This matter is of great importance, and the outcome may mean the difference between life or death, or at least serious injuries, for many veterans.

But at least the pessimists who believed that the world organization had plunged to its death in that plane crash in the Congo have been proved wrong.

Facing a prosecution which has demanded the death penalty, he said: ' I have participated in the war against Communism in Korea and at Dienbienphu, and I have helped in the evacuation of North Vietnamese to the free world.

Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate's baby and at Jonathan's decision to go with the South `` And, dear Kate '', she wrote, `` poor Dr. Breckenridge's son Robert is now organizing a militia company to go South, to his good father's sorrow.

Mrs. B. compared her feelings of weakness to her feelings of weakness and helplessness at the time of her mother's death when she was eight, as well as her subsequent anger at her father for remarrying.

For before someone takes up an attitude toward death, suffering, or their infliction, they have no moral quality at all.

Another veteran telephone operator was Edith Fleming Blackmer, who had been in the office forty years at the time of her death in 1960.

He left at his death sketches, drawn to scale, for the rest of the circle.

When the work was finished, the river was turned back into its usual channel and the captives by whose hands the labor had been accomplished were put to death that none might learn their secret.

He was left in the hands of reactionary boyars and priests, who encouraged him to hate his father and wish for the death of the Tsar.

They invaded Lycia, but were defeated by Bellerophon, who was sent against them by Iobates, the king of that country, in the hope that he might meet his death at their hands.

This second post he seems also to have left after a short interval, for he appeared again in Constantinople, and narrowly escaped death at the hands of the brothers of Eudoxia.

His death gave Europe its first ever intellectual hero and martyr, but guaranteed the democracy an eternity of bad press at the hands of his disciple and enemy to democracy Plato.

For Capone, the election victory was also marred by the death of his younger brother Frank at the hands of the police.

During the sede vacante, the period between a pope's death and the election of his successor, the day-to-day governance of the Church as a whole is in the hands of the College of Cardinals.

Following Howard's death, the copyright of the Conan stories passed through several hands.

In 1986, there was a fire at the Rovers Return, which attracted an audience of just under 27 million, and between 1986 and 1989, the story of Rita Fairclough's psychological abuse at the hands of Alan Bradley ( Mark Eden ), and his subsequent death under the wheels of a Blackpool tram, was played out.

Carmilla herself is mentioned several times as a former ( until her death at the hands of vampire hunters ) friend of the book's vampire heroine Geneviève.

This arrangement barely survived Constantine I ’ s death, with the sons of Constantine arranging the slaughter of most of the family of Constantine I at the hands of the army.

The Chronicle states that the Northmen were killed in Srath Erenn, which is confirmed by the Annals of Ulster which records the death of Ímar grandson of Ímar and many others at the hands of the men of Fortriu in 904.

Most of the rumors circle from the same source of Saint Jerome who claimed “ Cyril was an out and out Arian, was offered the see on Maximus death on the condition that he would repudiate his ordination at the hands of that Bishop ”.

Following the apparent death of Bucky at the hands of Sin ( in the form of Skadi ), Steve Rogers ends up changing into his Captain America outfit.

In the stanza that follows, the völva describes that Odin's " tall child of Triumph's Sire " ( Odin's son Víðarr ) will then come to " strike at the beast of slaughter ," and with his hands, he will drive a sword onto the heart of " Hveðrungr's son ," avenging the death of his father.

French scholar André Lemaire has reconstructed a portion of line 31 of the stele as mentioning the " House of David "., The Tel Dan stele ( c. 841 ) tells of the death of a king of Israel, probably Jehoram, at the hands of a king of Aram Damascus.

Human Rights Watch has cited a number of summary executions as particular examples of violations of the rules of warfare, including the case of Muhammad Swairki, 28, a cook for Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's presidential guard, who was thrown to his death, with his hands and legs tied, from a 15-story apartment building in Gaza City.

Ignaz Semmelweis ( 1818 – 1865 ) in 1847 dramatically reduced the death rate of new mothers from childbed fever by the simple expedient of requiring physicians to clean their hands before attending to women in childbirth.

Bronze casts made in 1990 from plaster death mask and plaster cards of his hands clearly show a normal right hand and a withered left hand.

* 2002 – Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

His attempt at betrayal led to his death at the hands of Doctor Doom.

While Lex Jr. and his impostor manage to get their hands on a recording of the elder Luthor ( Shea's voice ) made before his death.