Died

Examples

• His mother had died, years before. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Yet they all had lived and died unconscious of the different fates awaiting their relics. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They can both tell you that she died when Arthur went abroad. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• As the golden swim of light overhead died out, the moon gained brightness, and seemed to begin to smile forth her ascendancy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Instead he let him remain in his dungeon in the Bastille, where he died in 1589. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Therefore, those who had died at his hands must have seen him and paid the penalty with their lives. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I saw her, and anger, and hate, and injustice died at her bier, giving place at their departure to a remorse (Great God, that I should feel it! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was extremely difficult, I heard, to make out what he owed, or what he had paid, or of what he died possessed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• You could remember the men you knew who died in the fighting around Pozoblanco; but it was a joke at Gaylord's. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Many, already smitten, went home only to die: some died at the school, and were buried quietly and quickly, the nature of the malady forbidding delay. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The day before he died, he told me where to find all his papers. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• If he could but graft the girl on to some tree of utterance before he died, he would have fulfilled his responsibility. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He is one man, and you are many; but her words died away, for there was no tone in her voice; it was but a hoarse whisper. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He died of grief for the loss, and shame for the infamy. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Like as Tom might have been, miss, if Emma and me had died after father, said Charley, her round eyes filling with tears. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• One more crusade remains to be noted, an expedition to Tunis by this same Louis IX, who died of fever there. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My first wild thought had died away. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The fever broke out there, and many of the pupils died. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The name has died out. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Roebling, a native of Prussia, born there in 1806, and who died in New York in 1869. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A long sigh floated past them on the still waters, like the melancholy cry of a bird, and died away sadly in the distance. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• All my family died very devout. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I love thee as I love Madrid that we have defended and as I love all my comrades that have died. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The physician declared that he died of the plague. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I never knew either my father or mother to have any sickness but that of which they died, he at 89, and she at 85 years of age. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Contempt fell cool on Mr. Rochester--his passion died as if a blight had shrivelled it up: he only asked--What have _you_ to say? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• In his last illness, he had it brought continually to his bedside; and but an hour before he died, he bound me by vow to keep the creature. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Laurie told me how fond Mr. Laurence used to be of the child who died, and how he kept all her little things carefully. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• We cast away before the sound of the first gun had died, and another second saw us rising swiftly from the surface of the sea. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Editor: Val