Dies
['daɪiz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Die
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Examples
- One charm of travel dies here. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The steel for the manufacture of dies is carefully selected, forged at a high heat into the rough die, softened by careful annealing, and then handed over to the engraver. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Such a creature as a reptile has in its brain a capacity for experience, but when the individual dies, its experience dies with it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Any woman that dies unmarried is looked upon to die in a state of reprobation. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I hold you till one or other of us faints or dies! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Their force has long passed away--Age has no pleasures, wrinkles have no influence, revenge itself dies away in impotent curses. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And he who dies in battle will be at once declared to be of the golden race, and will, as we believe, become one of Hesiod's guardian angels. Plato. The Republic.
- The tender plant is produced; but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They dies everywheres, said the boy. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- One thing is certain,--that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a _dies ir?_ coming on, sooner or later. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- You _talk_ if anybody dies suddenly; you _talk_ if a fire breaks out; you _talk_ if a mill-owner fails; you _talk_ if he's murdered. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But if he is caught he dies. Plato. The Republic.
- What does he do when he dies? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- If perchance some stricken Asiatic come among us, plague dies with him, uncommunicated and innoxious. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away; They fly, forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Like a stray sheep that wanders over the sleet-beaten hill-side, while the flock is in the pen, and dies before morning-dawn. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Only about one Martian in a thousand dies of sickness or disease, and possibly about twenty take the voluntary pilgrimage. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- They dies more than they lives, according to what I see. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It dies in me from this moment. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Behold, she dies! Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- His missus dies, and leaves him four hundred pound. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- You know the Grotto del Cane at Naples, Maurice, where a man can enter freely, but a dog dies? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- They dies in their lodgings--she knows where; I showed her--and they dies down in Tom-all-Alone's in heaps. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Circumstances are sometimes too strong for the greatest soul, and that genius which should have created empires dies in obscurity. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Besides, when one dies, what good does fame do? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- You have sealed his death warrant, my princess--Sab Than dies. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The ignorance of ages died in this branch of human progress, as it often dies in others, with a violent wrench. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Die-sinking is the art of preparing dies for stamping coins, buttons, medallions, jewelry, fittings, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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