Somehow more terrible than the certainty that he was about to die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not suffer for it: the murder would go unpunished.

It was best to die fighting the marines.

It was conceived as a leave-taking, a kind of melancholy gathering-in of the myths of the West, `` bevor die Nacht sinkt, eine lange Nacht vielleicht und ein tiefes Vergessen ''.

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

The song, he said, was called `` The Stream's Lullaby '', and when he sang, `` Gute ruh, Gute ruh, Mach't die augen zu, '' there was such longing and such simple sadness that it frightened me.

and the sad part of it is that we had one, which was rounding into excellent shape, and we let it disintegrate and die.

The judge became ill just as the Colfax District Court convened, no substitute was brought in, no criminal cases heard, only 5 out of 122 cases docketed were tried, and court adjourned sine die after sitting a few days instead of the usual three weeks.

But still Mel Chandler was not completely convinced that men would really die for a four-syllable word, `` Garryowen ''.

She thought she was going to die.

On that first day, Blanche literally thought she was going to die, or, at the very least, go out of her mind.

They begged Grandma to let them put a bed in the kitchen for her, but Grandma said she was getting too old to sleep in strange beds and be seen with her teeth out, and that she hoped to die in privacy like a Christian and if the Lord willed it to be of pneumonia than it would have to be that way.

Gunny symbolized so much that was unpleasant -- Tolley, the indifference with which the Fairbrothers and indeed the whole neighborhood now treated her and which she would die rather than acknowledge to her husband, his lack of understanding and sympathy in her present condition, her disgusting swollen stomach.

I had killed snakes before, when I was younger, but there had been no animal like this one, and I knew it was unthinkable that an animal such as that should die.

Creusa left Ion to die in the wild, but Apollo asked Hermes to save the child and bring him to the oracle at Delphi, where he was raised by a priestess.

Ramstedt's two-volume magnum opus, Einführung in die altaische Sprachwissenschaft (' Introduction to Altaic Linguistics ') was published in 1952 – 1957.

Limbo is a theory that unbaptized but innocent souls, such as those of infants, virtuous individuals who lived before Jesus Christ was born on earth, or those that die before baptism must wait before going to heaven.

Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.

There are several reasons throughout myth for such wrath: in Aeschylus ' play Agamemnon, Artemis is angry for the young men who will die at Troy, whereas in Sophocles ' Electra, Agamemnon has slain an animal sacred to Artemis, and subsequently boasted that he was Artemis ' equal in hunting.

Even when this elder brother first displayed symptoms of delicate health, the notion that he might die young was never taken seriously, and he was betrothed to the Princess Maria Feodorovna ( Dagmar of Denmark ).

Reports stated that series producer Phil Collinson was distributing alternative scripts, that much loved characters would be killed, and that none of the cast would be told which characters would die.

Upon crossing the Rubicon, Caesar, according to Plutarch and Suetonius, is supposed to have quoted the Athenian playwright Menander, in Greek, " the die is cast ".

Erasmus, however, notes that the more accurate translation of the Greek imperative mood would be " alea icta esto " let the die be cast.

It concludes that the closest parallels with Isaiah's description of the king of Babylon as a fallen morning star cast down from heaven are to be found not in any lost Canaanite and other myths but in traditional ideas of the Jewish people themselves, echoed in the Biblical account of the fall of Adam and Eve, cast out of God's presence for wishing to be as God, and the picture in of the " gods " and " sons of the Most High " destined to die and fall.

He notes the common belief that any person entering the temenos would die within a year, along with the legend that all creatures, human and animal alike, cast no shadow while inside the sacred area.

Regardless, for Bruce the ' die was cast ' at the moment in Greyfriars and he had no alternative except to become king or a fugitive, Bruce asserted his claim to the Scottish crown and began his campaign by force for the independence of Scotland.

" After the idea of killing off a Next Generation cast member was vetoed, someone suggested that Kirk die instead.

::: The die is cast.

A poinçon bearing the head of Silenus in relief, discovered in Roman strata at Holt, Cheshire, is believed to be an artist's die, from which potters ' sunk dies would be cast, for appliqués

" Enough, sir, no more of that ; the die is cast, and if there are fifty sail I will go through them "

The final die was cast when Joséphine ’ s grandson Napoleon Charles Bonaparte who had been declared Napoléon ’ s heir, died of croup in 1807.

* Sort ( typesetting ), a cast die for printing

A die cast Boeing 747-400 model.

In the election of 1872, Democratic candidate Horace Greeley did in fact die before the meeting of the Electoral College, resulting in Democratic disarray ; the electors who were to have voted for Greeley split their votes across several candidates, including three votes cast for the deceased Greeley.

The Lesney die cast model factory was built in the 1940s on the Homerton side of the Lee Navigation, just north of Homerton Road, producing for many years their Matchbox brand.

When the first history of Callaway County was compiled in 1884, the die had already been cast as far as the type of community Fulton was to be.

Regardless, for Bruce the die was cast at the moment in Greyfriars and so began his campaign by force for the independence of Scotland.

*" Alea iacta est " (" The die is cast "), which is reportedly what Caesar said at the crossing of the Rubicon.

During the 1980s, Matchbox started to switch to the more conventional plastic and cardboard " blister packs " that were used by other die cast toy brands such as Hot Wheels.

above, " History "), Matchbox also tried its hand in the die cast airplanes area, under the name Sky Busters.

Diefendorf says that when the head of the murdered Coligny was shown to the Paris mob by a member of the nobility, with the claim that it was the King ’ s will, the die was cast.

The river is perhaps most known as the place where Julius Caesar uttered the famous phrase " alea iacta est-The die is cast.

According to the historian Suetonius, Caesar uttered the famous phrase ālea iacta est (" the die has been cast ").