“But perhaps it is the whole point of being alive? That life is a state of death denial?” he asked. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I cried, reacting as if I were a convict and my mother a judge condemning me to death for a crime I didn’t commit. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes no sound until the moment of its death, at which point it lets out a long scream made up of every sound it has ever heard, regurgitated backwards. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that would have been an even more certain death. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, it’s more than a death stare—it’s an I’m-about-to-hit-you-so-hard-you’re-gonna-end-up-six-feet-under stare. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Our knowledge of life is limited to death. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was afraid, but something inside me had already accepted that I would be caught, just as he had accepted his death. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Who threw it at you, anyway?” asked Harry. “/ don’t know. I was just sitting in the U-bend, thinking about death, and it fell right through the top of my head,” said Myrtle, glaring at them. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Choked a guard almost to death and escaped.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

What if they bored the audience to death before I came on! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father believed they should be treated harshly, put to death even, as an example. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only way to kill off our insatiable desire is through death. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, Fusia. But I’m looking death in the face, and I don’t like what I see.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then he explained that he’d heard about Maman’s death but that it was one of those things that was bound to happen sooner or later. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

When we entered Mrs. Vinyl’s house we saw the result of a full death. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Months after the death of Madame Manec, Marie-Laure still waits to hear the old woman come up the stairs, her labored breathing, her sailor’s drawl. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

James "Bo" Cochran had been released after spending nearly twenty years on Alabama's death row; a new trial was awarded after federal courts reversed his conviction because of racial bias during jury selection. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Though the men knew that danger and death were real possibilities on the expedition, the pain from the loss of Simplicio was felt by everyone. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Soon he would be unable to move, and then he would have to wait, like a bug imprisoned in amber, for death to find him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that red plaid dress . . . there was one, a hand-me-down to Prim that got washed to rags after my father's death. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got an e-ticket number. I was supposed to be traveling on Friday but I have to go today. There was a death in my family.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, a young girl from the royal Chewa family was stomped to death at the spring. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The crowd of people who witnessed Fannie’s death believed she was shot down in cold blood. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

It’s not that I didn't remember Mr. Harvey’s death and think about him, especially because suddenly a big row was being made over the hanging of my people. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

What could have lured all those whales to their death? thought Matt as they trudged along the line of shrimp tanks. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Since death would not come to him, he would go to death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even in his death throes the rat was lethal. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When a conservative majority took power in Congress in 1994, legal aid to death row prisoners became a political target, and federal funding was quickly eliminated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As though she was slowly starving to death. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But the death threats were repeated every day, along with new and colorful descriptions of what would happen if the cream puffs didn’t appear. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

By the time we get to District 12, I’m completely overwhelmed by the sheer number of kids going to certain death. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The deaths exist in my mind as a string of meaningless equations, and I stand frozen, unable to solve them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

There had been several sudden and unexplained deaths, not only among adults but even among children, who would be stricken suddenly while at play and die within a few hours. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Since the death of Hollywood the Lone Star State has taken its place at the top for being interviewed, inspected, and discussed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had suddenly arrived—and from the moment he arrived until the moment of his death he had filled her life. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The boy bled to death and then his leg floated away a few feet on the waves while Ishmael crouched behind the seawall. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want it to be real, this much death, this much dying, this waste of human life. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have wondered why it is that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death than others. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A circlet of gold wreathed his head, and even in death his eyes were alive with malice. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was a crime punishable by death to attack the King, and the royal mark was painted on every one of the coaches in that caravan. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, I scared my mother to death, the things I would blurt out about District 12, about the people who rule our country, Panem, from the far-off city called the Capitol. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I imagined my father’s voice crying in his death throes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In one of the tottering piles in my office, I found the logs from the private detectives hired by Whitehorn’s estate after his death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The death sentence is mandatory in this case. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience must be sick to death of the star-crossed lovers from District 12. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning on my way out the door, I see Silas disappearing around the corner, walking the same death march as yesterday. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

If she had won, Rue would never have let my death go unsung. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My own theory, which I included on my poster, is that yawning is a semipolite way of telling someone that they’re boring everyone to death. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Millions of people were going hungry, and hundreds of thousands of them would starve to death. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m scared to death, but I’d rather stay here than get you in any deeper.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have taken over the duties of the steward, who was dismissed upon the death of Count Durufle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Most Europeans who escaped fatal infections also escaped other potential causes of death and proceeded to pass on their genes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The song is about three girls who drive to a carnival and plummet to their deaths when the truck flips over the side of a cliff. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way—even by death—and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was said that, to pass into the next life, one of the gods’ animal familiars—represented by the figurines before them—carried each soul to the god of death, Fedu. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Dewey looked at the gray stone inscribed with four names, and the date of their death: November 15, 1959. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pettigrew had fallen to his knees as though Harry’s nod had been his own death sentence. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The news led with reports of lawlessness and death. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I had such a wild hot fever that Mama nearly ran herself to death, packing fresh cold water from the spring, which she used to bathe me all over, trying to run my fever down. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now wheeling swiftly across it, like shadows of untimely night, he saw in the middle airs below him five birdlike forms, horrible as carrion-fowl yet greater than eagles, cruel as death. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

All his crimes weighed heavy on him, the deaths of Stil- son and Bonzo no heavier and no lighter than the rest. Ender's Game 1985-01-15T00:00:00Z

Had her death given him the idea that there was such a thing as escape? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Joly of Dublin strenuously insisted well into the 1930s that the Earth was no more than eighty-nine million years old, and was stopped only then by his own death. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I loved that boy to death and he loved me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The few who found it invigorating tended to be men who had waded in its “river of death,” Sinclair’s phrase, and panned from it great fortunes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was like Percy had faced death before, like he knew about grief. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

You could put me to death before I live in something like this! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some boys went insane from constant exposure to disease, starvation, and death. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know whether the wound to the head preceded death or not? Is that what you’re saying, Horace?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Estha pressed his Parry’s sweets into her hand and she felt his fever-hot fingers whose tips were as cold as death. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither the exact date nor cause of his death is known. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Apollo, in great anger at his son’s death, went to Etna, where the Cyclopes forged the thunderbolts; and killed with his arrows, some say the Cyclopes themselves, some say their sons. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learn that they are also called Igbos, and that they believed that after their death, the gods would return their souls to Africa. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The Shavepate had urged her to put the man to death. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Lancel reddened; was he such a fool as to believe his part in Robert's death had gone unnoted? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then again, I suspect that Julian’s cheery, Socratic indifference to matters of life and death kept him from feeling too sad about anything for very long. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

David might not blame her for Az’s death, but Maddy did. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I knew this was death—I’d seen it so many times before—and I knew what to do. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

This is the first time I have killed with my hands, whom I can see close at hand, whose death is my doing. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who possess this power, her dad said, could interpret dreams, repel disease or death, inform hunters where to find game, and send a spirit helper to harm their enemies. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was this unreality of character, this cartoonishness if you will, which was the secret of his appeal and what finally made his death so sad. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On the basis of a horoscope he had cast, Tycho declared that this event foretold the death of the Ottoman Sultan, Sulaiman, known as the Magnificent. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the era of mass lynching, it was so difficult to find who, specifically, served as executioner that such deaths were often reported by the press as having happened “at the hands of persons unknown.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They bring up thoughts of my father’s death and Rue’s death and Maysilee Donner’s death and my mother inheriting her songbird. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was scared to death the Pierce might not start. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But she understood, at least, that they did give him a kind of bitter nourishment, and that the secrets they held for him were a matter of his life and death. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Make sure you bar this, and don’t let anyone in. Certain death can make a man act in unusual ways, forgetting right and wrong.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The blow wasn’t enough to kill him, but it was enough to make him consider his eventual death and his current life. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In death he looked even younger than he had with blade in hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hearing her hateful words, I cannot find it in my heart to feel sorry for her anymore, and I leave her with her cries and moans and the stench of impending death. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alexandra said, “You saw of the death of Cousin Edgar’s boy. That was a mighty sad thing.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He felt the adder breathing, its cold exhalations carrying the sweet musty odor of death stirring his whiskers. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Momma’s trying to work me to death today, too. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

This second shock, this second death, what will it do to her? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sadness and death, she thought, and death and sadness, and it wrenched in her stomach against the soreness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I'm not going to slowly starve to death, I'll tell you that. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amid such a picture of death and destruction, the young salmon themselves could hardly have been expected to escape, and they did not. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was only me, and I was freezing to death. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

What if the curtain that separates us is not death but a chain-link fence and some land? Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was a competition that Belmonte would not enter because it would lead only to a bad horn wound or death. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“If my dog gets hit by a car or freezes to death, it’s going to be your fault!” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And, as Roosevelt would soon witness, when a situation becomes so desperate and dangerous that death seems inevitable, fear can bring out the worst in people. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

A few times, even, flowery bouquets had been laid at these contemptible monuments commemorating a death or deaths which had not yet occurred. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As White examined probate records for many of the murder victims, it was evident that with each successive death, more and more headrights were being directed into the hands of one person—Mollie Burkhart. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Businesses used telegrams to buy and sell, but an individual got a telegram only for a death in the family. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But her anger only seems to infuriate him and he yells, “We watched children burn to death and there was nothing we could do!” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I grit my teeth and saw away occasionally glancing at the sky to register that there were no deaths today. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Most of the men around him were slowly starving to death. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Aguita boys, three of them, nearly clawed each other to death over Olive Hamilton. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Stark will never consent to leave Winterfell with his son lingering in the shadow of death." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But it is illusion to think that there is anything fragile about the life of the earth; surely this is the toughest membrane imaginable in the universe, opaque to probability, impermeable to death. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since my father’s death, nothing mattered to me anymore. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet he rewards them with a death that is not only sudden but horrible. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They have chosen her as a tribute, then made her watch her sister fight to the death in the Games. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She continued her everyday chores, helping with the gathering of plants, accompanying Alys to births and deaths. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He felt exactly as he had years earlier when he held his sister’s telegram informing him of Rosa’s death. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the little fierce loyal creature too was gone, the little silent soul that once had led him back from death’s dominion. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I scrape the cheese off a sliver of potato—which will not kill me, potatoes rarely cause death—and shove it in my mouth and chew, chew, chew, smiling across the acres of tablecloth. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Her hands worked within a membrane’s thickness of a death worse than any death in combat. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truth is the bull is virtually maimed and tortured, hacked and cut and stabbed until it is near death and then ceremoniously stabbed with a sword. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Lucinda’s death leaves us with a serious deficiency in the freak lineup. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Perhaps her husband would beat her, too, to get revenge for his brother’s death. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cause of death says multiple gunshot wounds to the torso. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird were trapped inside my ribcage and beating itself to death. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

At the time of my father’s death, none of the first responders were trained in the technique. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s true, death scenes are my specialty,” said the opossum. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lost her to a fate most Afghans consid­ered far worse than death: She ran off with a clan of traveling singers and dancers. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Such a display of death—how could it be considered a victory? The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

To get a better sense of the decimation, McAuliffe looked at the Authentic Osage Indian Roll Book, which cites the deaths of many of the original allotted members of the tribe. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They reflect the web of life — or death — that scientists know as ecology. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Coming within strangling distance of the Crown Prince of Adarlan, son of the man who sentenced her to a slow, miserable death, her self-control balanced on a fragile edge—dancing along a cliff. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Which for me meant an afternoon of running my legs to death, and an evening of boiling them back to life. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Not just panic—by the way his nostrils flared and his hand shook, it was almost like I had scared him half to death. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I hated him at such times, with a hatred that rose straight up out of the death that lay within my spirit. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was very unhappy and wrote droopily sad poems about death and isolation that reflected the way I felt. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I get the death stare from my dad. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“We call it the kiss of death,” she shouted, smiling wryly to soften the words. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was the difference between life and death. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

No matter who cut the ear, Vincent is now near death. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Piper felt his defenses going up, like he was curling into a psychological ball, the way he’d gone into a death trance in that bronze jar. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

What remained of Mantell’s collection after his death passed on to his children, and much of it was taken to New Zealand by his son Walter, who emigrated there in 1840. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The death toll from today’s events is unknown at this time but is expected to reach into the thousands.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

She didn’t need another death on her conscience. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But then the Current of Faith came along, and for the first time the black spot didn’t mean death. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Probably the newcomer is armed, but I’m betting she won’t risk letting me hear the click that would mean my death was imminent, knowing I would instantly kill her companion. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The girl whose death Detective Stevens is investigating. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Silence was ugly, it was black, it leered, it was cancerous, it was death. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I do not doubt that Jeanine chose young Dauntless because she knew their deaths would affect us more. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Normally, because of the memories it will raise in his wife of the deaths of their sons Edward, from tuberculosis, and Willie, from typhoid fever, Lincoln does not talk about death with Mary present. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I love her to death, but I just don’t get her,” Bobby Ryan says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Since my father’s death, my mother had made the tattered brown leather couch in the living room her bed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Whatever it was, she got the feeling it held the answer to sealing the Doors of Death—the key to endless death. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Because I'd spent more than two years and all of a war feeling that myself, certain that my actions had caused the death of someone important to me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Billy predicts his own death within an hour. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But save that flame, all was murk and midnight mist, and silence lay as thick as death. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Just around this time last year, I was starving to death here in Bergen-Belsen, doubting whether I would even live. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And I’m scared to death, but I want to tell her, keep reading, lady, cause Chapter Two gone be about you. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

If it caught her she would die a death that was more than death, howling forever alone in the darkness. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Now they were gassing Jews to death in trucks and boiling their bodies to make soap, or so it was said. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Many creatures had frozen to death over the winter. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ebola virus destroyed an animal’s internal organs, and the carcass deteriorated abruptly after death. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to entrust this draft to someone and give that person instructions on how to publish it in the event of his death. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His cough was prophetic of an early death. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing there for hours, I can only wish I would freeze to death. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if he recognized me, but I think he might have something to do with the disappearances of some boys I know, and maybe even Yakov’s and Victor’s deaths.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The wounds at his neck had not yet clotted, which made him seem animate even in death, the blood still spreading out across his shirt. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always grinned like that when he was allowed to put the fear of death into someone. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And I beg—oh, how I beg—that I never become so desensitized to the death I must deliver that it feels normal. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Darkclaw did not even get a chance to scream out a death cry. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I was losing sleep over another man on Alabama's death row, a man who was clearly innocent. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I run up the stairs, nearly falling face-first on the edge of a step before I catch myself on the railing, hovering an inch away from what could’ve been my death. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But at the age of twenty-three, personal mortality—the idea of my own death—was still largely outside my conceptual grasp. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time the Court had issued a categorical ban on a punishment other than the death penalty. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“My father always say she never went past a child in her head,” she said, reaching into her purse for a crumpled copy of Elsie’s death certificate, which she began reading slowly out loud. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Zaireans are tired to death, you can see it anywhere you look. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hell, weren't they their own death and their own destruction except as the principle lived in them and in us? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

These tragic deaths may lead our nation to substitute an aristocracy of character for an aristocracy of color. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“One death, to save thousands of people from a terrible fate? And cut the compound’s power off at the knees, so to speak? Is it even a question?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Their total lack of hesitation astounded me, because it was obvious many of them were rushing toward certain death. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She could see all the interconnected ways his life was knotted up, and how it had led here—to her own death. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

After his death he was placed in heaven as a constellation, which shows him with a girdle, sword, club and lion’s skin. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was also bringing news of the death of a sister—for nearly all of Pellinore’s family had been unfortunate. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fear; fear of the dark future; fear of the sharpness of hunger; fear of the blackness of death. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You used to tell me that when I was little, Mama. And it scared me to death. But it doesn’t bother me at all now.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worn down by the Victory Tour, failing in my attempt to calm the districts, facing the memories of Clove and Cato, particularly Cato’s gruesome, slow death by mutts. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

These changes took a long time, and it was nearly two years after the deaths of Grissom, White, and Chaffee before the first manned Apollo finally flew. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he descended into the structure’s basement—cold, dank, poorly lighted—to inspect birth and death registers kept there. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes,” she said gingerly, “when there’s been a death, it drives a family apart, instead of together.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

They both connected, sending the last monster plummeting to its death. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Camp Hardy happens to be where Lumumba was held, and beaten to within an inch of his life, before his death flight to Katanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The risk of implicating ourselves in Katz’s death was too great. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And Mother said, “Go on or you’ll catch your death,” but I didn’t know what you’ll catch your death meant, and I went inside. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’m all for being rebellious, but this seems like a death wish. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When, since her husband’s death, had Gertrude ever conversed privately with Claudius? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“If you stop your dogs, I’m going to beat you half to death.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

More deaths come, more telephone calls starde them in the middle of the night, more letters arrive in the mailbox informing them of aunts and uncles no longer with them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

One person—a Raoul Wallenberg, an Albert Schweitzer, a Martin Luther King Jr.—one person of integrity can make a difference, a difference of life and death. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The death sentences are read in alphabetical order by General Winfield Scott Hancock. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

And it was as though she had been hurled outward into time, where no boundaries were, for the voice was the voice of her mother, but the hands were the hands of death. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It hit the femoral artery and he bled to death. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The red thread of death?” repeated Despereaux in a small voice. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was a good thing my face was numb from the cold already or I might have froze to death. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay in a red mist of death, the life ebbing from his broken body. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They saw no such crime, but they saw plenty of death. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Nan once told me that my mom’s heart had been broken by my daddy’s death. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His death following so soon upon Achilles’ dismayed the Greeks. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they would have the story of her death, of the reporters’ finding her bones in the furnace, of her head being cut off, of his running away during the excitement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Here, there was absolutely nothing to do, except get bored to death. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Even before I was a Muslim—when I was a hustler in the ghetto jungle, and then a criminal in prison, it always stayed on my mind that I would die a violent death. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

By writing about the images he saw in Sarajevo, he was ensuring that no one would deny that ethnic cleansing was taking place, and that thousands of innocent men were being taken to their deaths. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

For Troy must perish, as ordained, that day she harbored the great horse of timber; hidden the flower of Akhaia lay, and bore sso slaughter and death upon the men of Troy. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to. The prophecy says he holds the key to endless death.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the business of death, we scythes have no competition. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It’s like having your own little bedroom in death. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

She was afraid that he would blame her for Aunt Queen's death. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Besides the cop, I’m the only person who was there. And you’ve seen stuff like this. It ends up on national news. People get death threats, cops target them, all kinds of stuff.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

All the while, there's a fierce hollowness gnawing at my insides and I try to imagine a life of this, watching fine people eat while I nigh on starve to death. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

SCORPIUS: The “Mudblood” death camps, the torture, the burning alive of those that oppose him. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

For the first time I fully reckoned with the truth that the conviction, the death sentence, and the heartbreak and devastation of this miscarriage of justice had created permanent injuries. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then, the courier had arrived with his document, probably to announce the impending death of Lord Furnival. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’m even hit with hope that I, and only I—sorry, Rufus—can beat death. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The child-victim category resulted in a tremendous increase in the number of young mothers and juveniles who were sent to death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In this way a number of rash young men met their death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There death was dead, and people made every gesture in a cloud of music. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have fought for you also, Sir Gawaine, and saved you from an ignoble death.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like looking into the face of death. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only sure way to escape that fate was for the King to have Danaë instantly put to death—taking no chances, but seeing to it himself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

These are dark days I will tell you of, dark days and hidden things, concerning the ends of the earth and the death of the gods. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Master of death, Harry, master of Death! Was I better, ultimately, than Voldemort?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Three books of Cicero’s jokes, now lost, were published after his death by his freedman Tiro. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

That left him two options: jump eighty feet to his death, or stand and fight. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

After Sassur’s death there was no more money coming from the school. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Say, I bet it must really scare you when I buzz your tent, huh ?” “It scares me to death. I’ve told you that.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And when there was death in the family, we prayed. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clara’s death completely transformed life in the big house on the comer. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was with a Pawnee woman whom he’d reportedly married after Anna’s death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But for all I know, it made the difference between my life and death. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Viji, I can imagine you feel guilty about your sister’s death, but you need to stop accusing yourself. You made the choices that seemed best. You did all you could.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

No books were required, yet many topics were covered, including love, work, community, family, aging, forgiveness, and, finally, death. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They could spit on you, beat you to death—you were totally unprotected.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Cold Sassy Weekly said it was “one of the saddest deaths that has ever grieved the people of Jackson County, because Mrs. Blakeslee was so beloved by so many.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Did the Vole speak true? You saw my death?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had been lured into the open, and trapped, twice trapped; trapped by being in jail for murder, and again trapped by being stripped of emotional resources to go to his death. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A death struggle must come in which one or the other class is extinguished forever.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

So every death is the death of five to seven generations. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the worst it can only be death; and a man’s death is not a calf’s, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

We’re all going to miss him, but what could we have done to prevent his death? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He may not have been on the best terms with our parents, but I wouldn’t be able to entirely focus until he had been informed of their deaths. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

They knew the Cursed Toads’ magic was involved in controlling it after Petal’s death, but that first attack had been someone else’s magic entirely. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

As is putting someone not yet convicted of a crime on death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Three of them, anyway. They’re shallow and rather rough, but there’s no smell of death or disease and they’re perfectly sound. I thought they might do for us—just for the moment, anyway.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Booth might rejoice at the news of the tyrant’s death, but Mudd was angry and afraid. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He beat them to death with a donkey's leg?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

On January 30, only three weeks after they learned of Marina Raskova’s death, the 587th flew an independent combat mission for the first time. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In fact, maybe at the moment of his death he would be too weak to feel pain. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The young prince grew until he was nearly a man, coming within two years of the eighteenth birthday that would allow him to ascend to the throne on the old king’s death. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Stannis is snowed to death by now. Else he’s run back to the Wall with his tail froze between his legs.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But death and I have been very close. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Falling into a severe depression attributed to his taking constant doses of purgatives to fight a weight problem he could not beat, he shot himself to death at age twenty-nine. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even if Howie’s death had been standard-issue, he still managed to make quite an impression on me when the bullets hit. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Since we come here, that is. We’re like you, we come here before we was dead, by some chance or accident. We got to wait till our death tells us it’s time.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As Montaigne put it in 1580, ‘the beliefs, judgements and opinions of men...have their cycles, seasons, births and deaths, every bit as much as cabbages do.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Stepson’s death was usually included in the official tally of murders during the Reign of Terror. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He never knew that in his death he had proved Apollo’s truth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed the death of a patient always gave him a sense of failure and hopeless ignorance. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For me, that meant four days in the warehouse, and even in my clouded state it was clear I might freeze to death for real. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

From her bedroom, the book she was reading still in hand, appeared the death of them all. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This—this—was what Cain spoke of: the freedom to go to my death knowing it’s for the right reason. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The key to endless death didn’t sound very cheerful, either. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God, you are a child. If we leave you alone here, you’ll freeze to death, you’ll starve to death.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you won’t remember it, but my dad’s death was a phase, too,” said Moss, and he was a little surprised at how easy it was for him to talk about this with Javier. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Since her husband’s death, Celia has devoted herself completely to the revolution. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boats became smaller as they got closer to the death house in the distance. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She believed that just as the power of her mind could move the saltcellar on the table, she could also produce deaths, earthquakes, and other, even worse catastrophes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tied up the boat Lookfar that had borne them to the coasts of death's kingdom and back, and went up through the narrow streets to the wizard’s house. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Virtually no subcutaneous fat remained on the body, and the muscles had withered significantly in the days or weeks prior to death. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After acknowledging Simplicio’s death and naming the waterfall after him, the men once again began the backbreaking job of building another portage. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It scared me to death when Aunt Loma rushed to meet us at the back door. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

For the most part, MDR cases had gone unnoticed or were ignored by the government clinics—a TB death was merely recorded as a TB death. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

For all of history and all over the globe she has been a nuisance, a pain, and an angel of death. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He argued that this would drastically reduce cervical cancer deaths, but his critics called it extreme and unnecessary. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We can put things off far more effectively than those doomed to die, because death has become the exception instead of the rule. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s better than sitting here, waiting for death.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I saw people driving around in their cars, going about their business, not aware that they just passed by a hospital that was filled with children who were ill or near death. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Upon the death of Orpheus’s wife, Eurydice, he marched into the Underworld and played his lyre for Hades until the lord of Death, so moved, agreed to return his wife. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“All right. As soon as we see that troll, we’ll kill him to death with your fire poker.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The rumours began to be of Lancelot’s death. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed so stupid to sit here and worry themselves to death when they could go out there and find them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

All went well on the voyage, but when they disembarked and started overland for the palace, Tereus told Philomela that he had received news of Procne’s death and he forced her into a pretended marriage. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you may have no more kisses,” the witch said, “or I’ll kiss you to death!” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Islam became a part of her life after the unexpected death of her oldest son, and religion became the only way she coped with the debilitating grief. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“It stunts my growth, and I’m afraid of death.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Guests were frequent at the Terranovas’ apartment, so when the doorbell rang, there was no sense of foreboding—no dimming of the sun, no foreshadowing of the arrival of death at their door. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Leaving it to be claimed by madness and death. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

‘And at the least you shall not rob your son of his choice while his death is still in doubt.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The moon was behind him; he looked dowm into die black shadow of the mesa, into the black shadow of death. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

If none of those things happen, I'll eventually run out of food and starve to death. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he jumped right into this aggressive spiel about how he was fully aware Stan's hadn’t been the only death premonition I’d experienced. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The "death car" as the newspapers called it, didn't stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment and then disappeared around the next bend. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Unpleasant though it is to contemplate, we must assume deprivation and death lie in wait.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Though he was certain he was going to bleed to death, Cherrie walked back to camp for help. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I hear someone shout, “Death to the factions!” and others pick up the phrase, turning it into a chant, until it fills my ears, Death to the factions, death to the factions. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Other men jumped to their deaths, in some cases penetrating the main roof. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Seven’s not a mistake, I love him to death, but Maverick made a mistake in his actions. However, all of his good and the love we share outweighs that one mistake.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I had a taste of that alternative when they called Prim’s name on reaping day and I watched her walk to the stage to her death. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They sang so sweetly their voices enchanted sailors and lured them to their death. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was strange how this did not seem a real death, so unlike the others, quiet, without rage or violence. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A loving God will grant a speedy death,” she said, squeezing her hands together. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The enemy army foil back before him like he radiated death, which of course he did. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

By the time of Anna’s death, the informal system of citizen policing had been displaced, but vestiges of it remained, especially in places that still seemed to exist on the periphery of geography and history. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Consequently, if humans cut down even one diprotodon every few months, it would be enough to cause diprotodon deaths to outnumber births. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps going north would be the unexpected choice; no one went north in winter unless they had a death wish. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Katie, jealous and fiercely possessive even in death, turned sharply to look at the woman who dared weep for Johnny. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was an instant from being trampled to death when an elderly woman suddenly materialized out of nowhere, grabbed hold of him, and dragged him under the rail. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Roan’s death, electric lightbulbs began to appear on the outside of Osage houses, dangling from rooftops and windowsills and over back doors, their collective glow hollowing the dark. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Months before our center opened, I started visiting Alabama's death row every month, traveling from Atlanta to see a handful of new clients, including Walter McMillian. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Here was a call for my death—an invitation from one terrorist to another, saying, “Go ahead, shoot her”—and I was as calm as could be. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Finally, I got so cold I thought I’d freeze to death standing there by the gate. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Behind them lay pain and death and fear; ahead of them lay doubt, and danger, and fathomless mysteries. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The humilities are piled on a soldier, so Cyrus said, in order that he may, when the time comes, be not too resentful of the final humility—a meaningless and dirty death. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Just because you can’t find someone doesn’t mean he’s at death’s door!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I was trying to impress her, so I skipped the part about my passive, but integral, role in the man’s death. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It also meant they weren’t going to starve or freeze to death in the street. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“So let it be,” he said, “I will be strong and wait for death.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bagwell's public complaints made it hard for courts to appoint other civil lawyers for last-stage appeals in a death penalty case, not that they were particularly inclined to do so. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then I realized it: They were the two people who will benefit from Mike Costello’s death. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t wear any gloves, either, when I filled buckets with alcohol, bleach, and ammonia, dumped old rags and sponges in, and scrubbed death from the walls and floor of the house. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

How could he go to his death with white faces looking on and saying that only death would cure him for having flung into their faces his feeling of being black? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the men with whom Tom had served in the Rangers went prematurely to their deaths. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

By focusing solely on Yakov’s death yet hinting at the disappearances of other boys, he had left the article open-ended like a penny dreadful. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

All those geese were suitors, and the bird was I. See now, I am no eagle but your lord come back to bring inglorious death upon them all!’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a hundred and fifty weeks there are once more only a thousand millions; a thousand thousand thousand men and women have starved to death. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

On July 17, the president's four doctors informed Corkhill that, though they anticipated full recovery, they couldn't absolutely rule out death. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

One pack of jabbering mutts charged across a field, threatening first to deafen him, then to trample him to death, then to tear him slobberingly, teeth-clickingly from limb to limb. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent has made at least a dozen paintings of sunflowers: sunflowers in a vase, sunflowers on a table, sunflowers alone and with other flowers, sunflowers in full bloom and halfway to death. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Sammy Wertzberger received two death threats before eight o’clock in the morning and before his parents took the phone off the hook. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's no doubt that the Archduke Franz Ferdinand mattered, although he was neither a prodigy nor a genius: his assassination sparked World War I—so his death led to 8,528,831 others. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately for the farmers, the death rate then dropped in the second year to 90 percent and eventually to 25 percent, frustrating hopes of eradicating rabbits completely from Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This occurs long after Lee’s death, when Lee has become the symbol of all that is fine and noble in the Southern cause. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry is no longer on Georgia's death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“That’s not really what the taste test is about, Dallas. It’s love or death, remember?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Helpless at last, unable to move hand or foot, he prayed for death, but there was no release for him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up until his death Schindler kept in touch with some of his former workers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

For the supernaturally inclined, the death of the jury foreman alone offered sufficient proof. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It troubled Leah that people thought our household deficient, not because our mother was parked at death’s door, but because we lacked a bákala mpandi-—a strong man—to oversee us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If his plea is simply guilty, then the State demands the death penalty for these black crimes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And maybe it was because of this first act of violence at the crossroads of hopes and dreams that death lingered around that house like a baby ghost. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Who jumped over death to stay with me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He set about explaining heart attacks: the narrowed artery, the blockage, the partial muscle death. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Our parents had planned to go before my father’s death, so Caroline and Call begged her to return with them and stay on through the opening. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strangely enough this was the cause of his own death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two Deckers riding an elevator on their End Day is either a death wish or the start to a bad joke.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My father’s death had been meaningless, and the violence in this world was meaningless, too. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Thank God the glass ceiling is bulletproof, or the glass would break and I would fall to my death. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She had begged God with such fervor for something fearful to happen so that she would not have to poison Rebeca that she felt guilty of Remedios' death. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that. Well, to hear the Post tell it, we lynch ’em for breakfast; the Journal doesn’t care; and the Times is so wrapped up in its duty to posterity it bores you to death. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Obviously I've got some internal damage, but I don’t seem in danger of bleeding to death. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

If only we’d given the Martians time to arrange their death robes, lie down, look fit, and think up some other excuse for dying. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was too much a part of death to ever die. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it was, in the weeks that followed Herr Bremann's death, his lordship began to devote more and more hours to the matter of the crisis in Germany. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Morrie would walk that final bridge between fife and death, and narrate the trip. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled hearings on innocence and the death penalty a few months after Walter’s release, and we both testified. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And now, after this last death, he writes Theo a letter filled with quotes from the Bible. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The death penalty can be imposed fairly only after carefully considering all the reasons why death might not be the appropriate sentence, and that didn't happen in Herbert's case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The outrage is more than just the location; it is the impropriety of such visible death, anywhere. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That piece of steel is the power of life and death." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He died rich and famous, and was the subject, a few years after his death, of the first ever book-length biography of a musician. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He pantomimed death, clutching his hands around his own neck, letting his tongue hang out of his mouth, and lolling his head to the side. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sloan himself stood petrified in the middle of the court, watching in disbelief as balls of death flew around him. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Since the Inca bureaucracy was so strongly identified with its godlike absolute monarch, it disintegrated after Atahuallpa’s death. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s death, the abuse, and the desperate circumstances all exacerbated Trina's emotional and mental health problems. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As his last act upon earth, Comrade Napoleon had pronounced a solemn decree: the drinking of alcohol was to be punished by death. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

In almost every state, juries made the decision to impose the death penalty or life in prison without parole. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s a death wish,” a voice calls out from the crowd. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They had not, in life and in death, been married for over two hundred and fifty years for nothing. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

That, and lots of witnesses to see your chute collapse as your body plummets helplessly toward certain death. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At the grave site, standing with Ernest, Mollie could hear the old people’s song of death, their chants interspersed with weeping. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The death of the boy from District 3. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We tried our best to comfort him, but we couldn't make the memory of what he had seen or the stench of death he carried on his clothes and skin go away. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“We’ll find him. At least we know what the lines of the prophecy mean now. ‘Twins snuff out the angel’s breath, who holds the key to endless death.’ The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Cold hands and stiff limbs moved to obey as yet more arrows flew down like rain, straight rods of rain tipped with death. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Day after day goes by with pain and fear, groans and death gurgles. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 458 BC, a few decades after Pythagoras’s death, the playwright Aeschylus used this odd logic to provide one of history’s most extraordinary legal defenses of matricide. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

What Washington and the others discovered was that, despite the surge in deaths on October 22, the fever did indeed seem to be losing strength. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Other men might wish to die in bed asleep, but that was no death for a knight of the Kingsguard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Only this part of her death seemed right. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

The police had done nothing to search for Aaron, and likely they had treated Yakov’s death with the same indifference. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You tell me. Maybe we just keep on going. We’d get there, eventually. At least the dust of our skeletons would—but isn’t our death the whole point of The Brain’s original breakdown?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

An explosion detonated and death crept closer, curling around me in fingers of smoke. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t take your own brother to his death!” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

On other occasions I waited apprehensively while my mother read onion-paper letters airmailed from Mexico with news of a relative’s illness or death. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The branch bent under my weight as if delivering me to the deep, and I murmured, “I come to you, waters of death and life. Take me from this world of madness and strife.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He identified our snakes according to the categories of death they liked to inflict, which he acted out for us in action-packed dramas on the front porch. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even pronounced the word as though it were a form of death. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he had tried using a rope, only to realize the water could give him a cleaner death, a quieter one. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And when White learned about a potential witness in the Roan murder case, he discovered that this person had been bludgeoned to death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Junior and I exchanged a look, and he gave me that smile he had held back when I was about to face death. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And he watched Elisha, who was a young man in the Lord; who, a priest after the order of Melchizedek, had been given power over death and Hell. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Holly can bleed to death in my presence if she likes, and I will just consider her to be specially favored by an inscrutable God, more or less as Jesus was. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We agreed to go on Thursday night, which was the second anniversary of Dad’s death, which seemed appropriate. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I find that he has never demanded the death sentence in his closing speeches to the jury. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Hunting in the woods surrounding District 12 violates at least a dozen laws and is punishable by death. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How many people are sitting in their homes right now, watching this same news report, and justifying death? Who else is deciding that Javier deserved to die?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It is a way of speaking. The papers are only to record Hari’s death.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The supposition that Remedios the Beauty possessed powers of death was then borne out by four irrefutable events. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But the statue had been erected three years after Halliday’s death, so I knew it was a dead end. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The children fought with sticks and stones, and mass chaos ensued, with hundreds of children wounded, and two white men stoned to death. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him I was still grieving over our parents’ deaths and got a little paranoid. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I thought I could not be shocked by death, but—there was just so much of it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The crews of the galleys denied it; the deaths were from a bloody flux. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had acted as if her death someday—for someday he would have to face the fact that her death would leave him alone in the world—would not pose a problem for him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It is now,” one soldier writes in his diary, “a race of life or death.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Not only was I in fear of being found and made subject to the stewards wrath, I was still engulfed by grief at my mothers death. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Philip came to Kensington two weeks ago to apologize to both Henry and Bea for the years since their father’s death, the harsh words, the domineeringness, the intense scrutiny. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I jumped into the car and raced down to death row to tell Walter in person. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Such a small thing to hold the power ofhfe and death. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He had just time to realize that the age-long nightmares of falling and death were past and that the morning was come, when he heard the sound again.' Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

No medics show up, though, and as I’m too far gone to care, I crawl up onto the mattress, expecting to bleed to death. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Slowly Styx relaxed his death grip on Bobby Gene. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

But I was sure about me, about everything, surer than he could ever be, sure of my life and sure of the death I had waiting for me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The anticipation was contagious, and my curiosity eventually outweighed my allergy to plunging to my death. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The Vole family taken captive; death or slavery was all the wretched creatures could look forward to. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Summer and early fall brought more terror, more death threats, more hate mail and midnight phone calls—and frustration. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I am worried to death about you, Alice, and you think this is fun. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, she needed to hear the whole book again, even the terrible parts, dear Nancy’s killing and the death of Sikes. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, yes, the moment you’re born, your death comes into the world with you, and it’s your death that takes you out.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In Oregon, university fraternity brothers gathered around a radio, "spellbound” and "scared to death.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I was just getting settled into my office routine when Steve asked me to go to death row to meet with a condemned man whom no one else had time to visit. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It may be that the birth and death of the day had some part in my feeling about the two ranges of mountains. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The messenger announces the Emperor’s assassination; Elias is sentenced to death and chained. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I do believe people still fear death, but only one one-hundredth as much as they used to. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A nice quick death, ’twill hardly hurt at all.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He is still very upset over the death of your Halmoni. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The deep red fruit of the mulberry is the everlasting memorial of these true lovers, and one urn holds the ashes of the two whom not even death could part. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's a kind of death without hanging, I thought, a death alive. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Empty beds spread across the ward, and through other wards, like deaths in the night. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The death of forty-two people at the end of the Attica standoff exposed the danger of prison abuse and inhumane conditions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She herself was preoccupied—by the births of their sons, by the family setbacks after Papa was jailed, by Papa’s sad demise and death, by their own numer-ous business failures. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dying, too, and I didn’t want to have his death laid on me. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m saying that if I didn’t have any other choice but to be here—if it wasn’t between this and death, I would be halfway across Erilea by now, and not looking back.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He told her of the superstitions people had about shoes: that putting them on a bed invited death into the family, that a quarrel would follow if one put on the left shoe first. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I felt as if I was always waiting for death to come to me, so I decided to go somewhere where at least there was some peace. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She might turn it all to blood, smash the domes, send the feather-cloaked children tumbling to their deaths. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She shot death rays at me from across the table the rest of lunch. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

When death comes for Bernd, it might as well come for him also. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We have one very limited world, and although death has been defeated as completely as polio, people still must die. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It clearly applies to Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, planets discovered long after Kepler’s death. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not kill them, of course, as they were already in the realm of death, but he invited them as a friendly gesture to sit in his presence. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read that a chapter of the Louisiana Citizens Council had just offered a $10,000 reward for my death. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sir William Osier took this view: he disapproved of people who spoke of the agony of death, maintaining that there was no such thing. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think you know that I had the best intentions of checking in now and then after S.’s death to see how you and Franny were holding up. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Citra wasn’t sure whether this was part of his little dance of death, or if he was genuinely interested. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The closest I came to death was during my battle with the final boss, the Black Dragon, who, of course, looked exactly like the beast depicted in the painting in Anorak’s study. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The notion came to him that they were holding him to blame for the mid-air crash and the death of Nately. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He was not joking, Shadow was certain of that: there was a hunger there for something, for pain, or death or retribution. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

In Charles’s view of the world, death looked very different, but he found meaning and grandeur in that view. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your noble blood is the warrant for your death. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

They hounded him even after death — the state confiscated his ashes after his cremation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Authorities ruled the death a homicide later that day, a Sunday. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The death penalty was taken off the table after Tony agreed to cooperate with the state. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Rather than dwell on death, Lincoln prefers to live life on his own terms. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Possibly it will be the sound of death today also. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought that I could have caused Arnold’s death is not so ridiculous. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then, he’s also the Dauntless who helped us end the attack simulation and saved Tris from a horrible death. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In one series of notes, I wrote: I still don’t fully understand death, but I envy everyone who at least got to bury their loved one. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“The gods have summoned me to death,” he thought. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think your grandparents envisioned an accb dental death when they made this request. But we’ll make the best of it.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was hearing of his death in hushed tones, though, the next day, that she would always recall. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then back she went to face the crowded hall, tremendous bow in hand, and on her shoulder hung the quiver spiked with coughing death. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I first learned about HeLa cells and the woman behind them in 1988, thirty-seven years after her death, when I was sixteen and sitting in a community college biology class. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Would they truly allow prisoners to freeze to death? Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hope you can find some consolation from Christianity’s affirmation that death is not the end. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Each death row inmate was placed in a five-by-eight-foot cell with a metal door, a commode, and a steel bunk. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

From somewhere in the distance came a mournful sound of brass instruments, a death dirge echoing over the water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

"But if my math is right, he's doomed to starve to death before we can possibly help him. I'm not looking forward to the conversation." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank had no telephone, and in any case, he had deeply mistrusted the police ever since they had taken him in for questioning about the Riddles’ deaths. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Will she remember the first death, too, and this dream, and the sudden vanishing? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, “That you have a death wish.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Later, we all learned she’d been arrested for stabbing her mother’s boyfriend to death. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But that didn't kill the idea that my anger helped speed him on to death. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you told him I’m at death’s door or something,” Franny said. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even figured out that the only way not to trigger the crown’s death curse was to move when it rested on no one’s head. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Calder’s dad said he remembered hearing that Mrs. Sharpe’s husband had been murdered in Europe many decades ago, and that he had been doing research on Vermeer at the time of his death. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Wintergreen struck open a water pipe while digging in one of his holes and almost drowned to death before he was fished out nearly unconscious. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then there was the business of death, the complexity of how to deposit a badly burned corpse into the ground of a National Cemetery as quickly and with as much dignity as possible. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We are angels of death,” said Scythe Goddard. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Harriet Blaine wrote her daughter of the dilemma: "Poor dear Gaffy, how wretched it is! Wounded and sore and hurt to the death, he now to save his life, must dare to lose it." Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sarai couldn't remember exactly when she had passed away, but it was certainly before her own first bleeding, because her reaction to discovering the old woman’s death had been so foolish. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And the raft floated away, the sounds of the singing faded, and the gulls swooped and screeched as if they were announcing a death in the town. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Half of the original colony now lay underground beneath wooden markers painted with death’s heads; most of the survivors were malnourished. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Such was life and death for Citra in the days before the Harvest Conclave. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

This volunteer was Edgar Derby, the high school teacher who would be shot to death in Dresden. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began by advising her to moderate the rigor of her mourning, to ventilate the house, to forgive the world for the death of José Arcadio. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Many years later, Bobby indicated that during those speed games Petrosian’s style of play had bored him “to death,” and that was why he’d wound up losing more than he won. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My actions—or failure to act—played a direct role in the death of Andy Harris. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Tongue-tied? Half mad? If we’d gone to the police they would have charged us with every unsolved death in New England for the last five years.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But his mind was elsewhere—with death, with his grief, and his remorse; mechanically, without consciousness of what he was doing, he began to shoulder his way through the crowd. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess if you’re going to be sentenced to death, this isn’t a bad place for it.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But him never having ridden anything smaller than a horse, buggy, or train, the bicycle scared him to death. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could make him die a thousand deaths and then lock him away for eternity—and it would truly be eternity, because he would never give them the satisfaction of gleaning himself. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“My lord, will you grant me leave to send a raven to the Wall? His Grace will want to know of Lord Tywin’s death.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had his whole life ahead of him to make money if he could, time enough to be bored and to await death, without Rosa. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was described three decades after his death as having had “so much taste and talent that his mind bordered on genius.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The only fear was not of death, was not of the war, was of blind stupid human frailty, of blind proud foolishness that could lose it all. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But their lives and deaths have had a greater impact on my thinking as a scientist, scholar, historian, physician, son, and father than I could possibly have envisioned. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Calpurnia, our whole existence on this earth is a cycle of life and death. That is a fact. There is no stopping it.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

If it is, they definitely haven’t read The Art of War, which points out that setting up camp in a ditch is a death wish. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Three objects, or Hallows, which, if united, will make the possessor master of Death...Master...Conqueror...Vanquisher...The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In my condition and in such cold, death would be my certain end. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Ralph shuddered at the thought of an electronic mouser sending his family screaming into the snow to freeze to death. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Fatherland or death!” the guerrillas echo, all except Felicia, who wonders whether all this shouting wouldn’t alert the enemy in a real war. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as Desdemona was concerned, death was only another kind of emigration. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In both places the public death was accompanied by the reading of ritual scripts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Where he was beaten nearly to death and robbed of all his savings. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air smelled of dewy grass, damp soil, sweat, and death. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I shall be pecked to death!” wailed the poor Earthworm. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He guessed that this was because his death was imminent; there was nothing left to fear. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When Antonio was released from the hospital, his mother sent him to live with relatives in Las Vegas, where he tried to recover from the tragedy of Jose's death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

To assume that we must resign ourselves to turning our waterways into rivers of death is to follow the counsel of despair and defeatism. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It would have been a happy, peaceful holiday had it not been for the stories of disappearances, odd accidents, even of deaths now appearing almost daily in the Prophet. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There were little fern-shaped fossils, and fossils that looked like scorpions stinging themselves to death. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

No family members sitting shiva, no yahrzeit candle to commemorate his death. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Being stranded in the land of death is a little rotten for him, but there’s nothing we can do. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

It’s pretty much a death sentence for people with CF. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Scythes are supposed to have a keen appreciation of death, yet there are some things that are beyond even our comprehension. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She could bear her own death as long as her friends survived. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I wanted to wear the little black dress I’d bought for my fifteenth birthday party, my death dress, but I didn’t fit into it anymore, so I wore a plain black dress, knee-length. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until after September 15, 1963, that I finally understood that death could come to any one of us—adults and children alike. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Constantine, who examined the body when found, puts the time of death as having occurred between midnight and two in the morning. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are your hands good enough to sign this death certificate?” he asked. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn’t in time.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

While I am near death, each day, I learn little by little that villagers come. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

A man stood on the front porch, blasting away randomly with the Transvice, sending people to their wispy deaths. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Ask why he cares more about some stupid white-boy party than he does about the unjust death of a guy who looks like him. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“We say that his death was caused by malpractice. That is all there is to it.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The further into the journey Bull went, the harder it became for him to see through the windshield that was stained with the prints of so many inconsequential deaths. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe just a brief moment, for once, of not feeling fear, of looking at death in the sunshine and being unafraid. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He would have to purchase his wisdom of life with sacred death. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fair had begun with death, and now it had ended with death. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It holds, which is fortunate, because if it breaks, my death will be swift and certain. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

J*ne li> It had been four weeks since the asteroid had knocked the moon just a little closer to earth, four weeks of untold devastation and death. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Within a half hour of the president's death, reporters began telegraphing the breaking news to the rest of the nation. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Courage without caution makes for early death, or so you tell me daily,” said Luxa. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Father Mulligan’s death did not alter the text of the entries in Baby Kochamma’s diary, simply because as far as she was concerned it did not alter his availability. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking across the roof, I’m relieved to see he’s moved a safe distance away from the edge and hasn’t fallen to his death. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

They were the first faces of hell and death. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normal people give up after ten or eleven, unless it's a matter of life or death. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“If you protest, if you think that death is a terrible thing, then you have not understood a word I’ve said.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And everyone has their own death?” said Will, marveling. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was two days after Dad’s death, and the house still smelled of flowers. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

A decade after Mohammed’s death in 632, his followers had captured Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Persia. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I hold my forearm up to my nose so I can smell sweat and skin and anything but death. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then began the awful crooning, the grimaced smiles, the mothers clapping for the death of their children to deceive the god. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Diabetes can mean blindness, amputation, and early death. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I said, sensing he didn’t want to dwell on the subject of his family’s death. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Behind the glass lay a row of plaster figures, all frozen in the throes of death. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In this case the official cause of death, he wrote, was anoxia—a deprivation of oxygen to the brain—as well as an acute disturbance to the composition of the blood. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I turned the other police misconduct cases over to other lawyers because my death penalty docket was so full. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Cherry’s eyes never stopped shouting out silent death threats. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Back at the Twenty-Ninth Street beach, the anger was gathering momentum that would wreak havoc far beyond Eugene’s death, spattering blood across the city. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Both—though they oversaw Sing Sing’s executions— were against the death penalty. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In that case, you must give me credit for being impartial. When the Germans rode in, I almost stabbed a robust young Oberkutnant to death with a sprig of edelweiss.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Justice’s circumstances were different from my own, and after the regent’s death he had important new responsibilities thrust upon him. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could it be justice that a son should take a mother’s life to avenge a father’s death? Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the hard-line choice Kennedy had made, he found Diem’s death shocking. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Alongside death and despair, this was also the period of astounding Gothic architecture, with the most extraordinary cathedrals, abbeys and churches being built all over Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

After the death of his mother, he began to see her all the time. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The study conducted for that case revealed that offenders in Georgia were eleven times more likely to get the death penalty if the victim was white than if the victim was black. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was trying to decide what tune I should whistle as I plummeted to my death when my phone rang. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Going back there right now is a death sentence, Magister Spurge. It would not be heroic. You will be caught, imprisoned, and tortured. So we are going away from the city.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

A chill shivers through my whole body, like the chill of death. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was terrified of freezing to death but there was absolutely nowhere I could go. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But they did not talk about it, as though verbalizing it would make Baby’s death imminent, until the morning she sat watching Baby sleep while Odenigbo got dressed for work. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And any person they told about the mission could face the death penalty as well. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“I mean, I really thought it was gonna choke me to death before they got it out.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was dangerously near death from his fall. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m sick to death of those stupid rules,” I said. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Family members constantly reminded me about my grandmother’s death. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Gradually his fear of and eagerness for death returned. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this is what death does, he thought, still touching her hand. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“All them King Lords up in there. You know that’s a death wish, right?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It cracked with the laughter of madness as it inflicted death upon the people. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes on the bus to school, I think of her and hope she has a gentle death. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The deaths brought the year’s total to seven. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Of the six deaths that occurred in wrecks the year before in the county, one was attributable to a teen driver. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

For hundreds of years after his death the sick and the maimed and the blind came for healing to his temples. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was training to be a guard, he studied the Korean martial art of taekwondo, learned riot-suppression techniques, and was instructed not to worry if his treatment of prisoners caused injury or death. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And even as he espied them and came swooping down, he saw them fall, worn out, or choked with fumes and heat, or stricken down by despair at last, hiding their eyes from death. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

This family is, like so many others today, attempting to grapple with the many questions and the moral and ethical issues that surround the “birth” of HeLa, and the “death” of Mrs. Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They play her death in full, the spearing, my failed rescue attempt, my arrow through the boy from District 1's throat, Rue drawing her last breath in my arms. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He wished they were looking at it from the beach on Long Island rather than from halfway around the world, sailing toward almost certain death. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I wrote of pain and suffering and death. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Big Ma said we would cause her slow and unmerciful death, but we knew she didn’t mean it. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I wondered what it was like, to be the kind of guy that cried over the death of a bird. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The sick, the elderly, children, babies and pregnant women—all are marched to their death. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

So in death, the gods had decreed that she would know no rest until her weeping watered the black earth of the Vale, where the men she had loved were buried. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She crumples next to her child, both writhing in the snow until two bullets join them in death. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A hundred years after his death, a statue of Lavoisier was erected in Paris and much admired until someone pointed out that it looked nothing like him. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Retiring from politics, he entered private law practice, which he pursued until his death in 1936. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Poor, dead boys in army uniforms from every era, their pale skin even whiter in death, clung to bridges and passenger cars, their grasping fingers reaching out for the memory of life. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I was thinking that Ben was probably freezing, too—and scared to death by now. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

This was no natural depiction of his death, but a clear reminder of it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“That isn’t overcoming cowardice! Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life, and in real life, I am not getting pecked to death by crows, Four!” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Hodge then pointed out that the deaths, including his daughter’s, had all happened on or near Water Street. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Little Anna, as she was called, had not been well of late, and doctors had attributed her death to illness, because there seemed to be no evidence of foul play. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Because if all they had said was true, then Mae, even if she were the crudest of murderers and deserved to be put to death—Mae Tuck would not be able to die. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reaction of the white rulers to our first efforts was swift and brutal: sabotage was declared to be a crime punishable by death. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s by a great musician named Marvin Gaye. He was very talented but also very troubled. In his song, he says, ‘There’s only three things that’s for sure: taxes, death, and trouble.’” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Life on Winter is hard to live, and people there generally leave death to nature or to anger, not to law. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The consequences of his death were yet to come. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Caputo asked again, “Miss Peck. Who stood to profit from the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Angel?” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

And in a certain sense he knew that the girl’s death had not been accidental. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had never gotten over the death of his golden son, the glory of the family and all of Syria, Mohammed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I was testing you. I would not have been pleased if either of you were eager to administer death.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I was playing several small roles, my most dramatic being that of a soldier who dies a bloody death in one of the battle scenes. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Let it be known that if death befalls me, it is not the result of self-gleaning. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Where they're guaranteed a bloody fight to the death with nothing to block their view. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There was as much of a lesson in that, Willow had explained, as in anything she had been told by anyone about life or death or the stages in between. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Maybe death is the same. Maybe it’s just the next life. An inch away.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The souls of the unburied might not pass the river that encircles the kingdom of death, but must wander in desolation, with no abiding-place, no rest ever for their weariness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the line from Shakespeare: “Be absolute for death; for either death or life shall be the sweeter.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I give Mrs. Walton the stare of death. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Gregor was now shut off from his mother, who was perhaps near death, thanks to him. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

For weeks before Garfield's death, medical journals and general newspapers had accused Bliss of mismanaging his care. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

That was a doom almost as bad as death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We will be taken to the boat of death on the horizon, and we will never see this place again.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was like receiving a sentence of death. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, his son’s birthday, is a day to honor life, not brushes with death. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing here for us is death. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She had combed her hair with the carved wooden comb that had been her mother’s and which she had added to her own small storage sack after her mother’s death. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All said I was wicked, and perhaps I might be so; what thought had I been but just conceiving of starving myself to death? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“That doesn’t make him a hero. Our country is doomed, don’t you see? Our fate is death, no matter whose hands we fall into,” said the bald man. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

From this, it would be fair to say that one month before his death, Malcolm had revised his views on intermarriage to the point where he regarded it as simply a personal matter. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a bad place, rank with despair and death. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For the physician’s cure, you would need to see a specialist - the only one who has ever successfully cured death: my son Asclepius, the god of healers.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was Sissy’s first marriage by the Church and at last she believed that she was truly married until death did the parting. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I will," Dany said, "but it is not your screams I want, only your life. I remember what you told me. Only death can pay for life." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"It is not a matter of gold or horses. This is blood- magic, lady. Only death may pay for life." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Someone had finally been naive enough to trust me, and I'd rewarded her with death. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The method worked, but black families paid a heavy price and children were hardest hit: there had already been several tear gas- related deaths. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later I would make three photocopies, one to reside permanently next to my body, in my wallet, as a kind of personal asterisk, I thought, in case of accidental death. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have seen hangings where a man gurgles and thrashes and his face turns red and death comes so slowly that I have wished for a sword to put him out of his agony. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

In a discipline in which athletes bored newsmen to death with cliches and blandly politic statements, Pollard was a singularly fresh interview, articulate, irreverent, and self-deprecating. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not much, it seemed to him, except be bored to death for his country. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There would be illnesses, from which I would recover just at the point of death. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He cries when he recalls those first days after the attack, when I was somewhere between life and death. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Seventy-five years, unless you worry yourself to death first. Okay. Fifty-two multiplied by seventy-five equals...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I want to go on living even after my death! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I was deeply distressed that, had he gotten the right help at the right time, Herbert would not be on death row with an execution date in less than two weeks. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They lifted their canteens and drank to the old man’s family and ancestors, his many grand-children, his newfound life after death. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time a man turned around, and he had such a terrible expression— your mother said it looked like death itself—she shivered and looked away. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colonists died—and in deep space, death meant death, just as completely as if they had been gleaned. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Astonishing to think that these tiny pods rolling around in the palm of my hand mean the difference between life and death. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Shortly before his death, Justice Thurgood Marshall felt compelled to remind his colleagues that there is, in fact, “no drug exception” written into the text of the Constitution. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

By the time we at EJI got involved, he had been on death row for several years, moving inexorably toward execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Outsiders wondered if Root’s death might mean the death of the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But there were no responses—unless the increase in death threats counted. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

People whispered rumors of more and more deaths. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Beneath that came his name, rank, and years of birth and death. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The trial lasted just over a day, and the judge quickly condemned Herbert to death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She never talked to him about Shoba; once, when he mentioned the baby’s death, she looked up from her knitting, and said, “But you weren’t even there.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

On hearing about Milton’s death, she had removed her hairnet, tearing at the masses of hair that tumbled down. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Right there and then I should have known the dream was an omen of death. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He called Tate the next morning and told him that he would say whatever he wanted if he would get him off death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It didn’t become Halley’s comet until 1758, some sixteen years after his death. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

By 1922, Morrison had divorced his Osage wife, and after Stepson’s death he married Stepson’s widow, Tillie, making himself the guardian of her two children. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Only old Benjamin was much the same as ever, except for being a little greyer about the muzzle, and, since Boxer’s death, more morose and taciturn than ever. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Was death merely a return to the womb of mother earth, or did they have some conception of the beyond? History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following, I said, my wife’s untimely and tragic death, of an ulceration cancereuse, I had earnestly thought I would never again set brush to canvas. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Others reported that there had been a death in his family and he’d been called away. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she wanted to know something, she would hammer him to death with questions until he answered her. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The bones formed patterns, like skeletal contortionists tumbling together, curling to protect the precious stones—a dance of death and riches. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I thought I was going to be walking into death’s waiting room. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Not long after Henrietta’s death, planning began for a HeLa factory—a massive operation that would grow to produce trillions of HeLa cells each week. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“He only stops for three reasons: trains, the death of someone in the car, or if he has to go to the bathroom,” Ben said climbing out of the car over Matt. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I welcome both the toxic masculinity and the...piggy's death rattle. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When at last we are up to our ears in death and garbage, we will look to Science to clean up our mess. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The death of the royal couple ushered in a time of social chaos. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

‘But we must not use the wood — not unless it is a choice between fire and death.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tom Yew's death killed the thrill of the war. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Yeller ran like he was scared to death, then cut back around a thicket. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Khubchand, his beloved, blind, bald, incontinent seventeen-year-old mongrel decided to stage a miserable, long- drawn-out death, Estha nursed him through his final ordeal as though his own life somehow depended on it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But occasionally there came circumstances in which the only way of settling a dispute was a fight to the death. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Volker cares, and she said he has brought a death plague into this town and that people better beware or they’ll drop dead.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Outraged Northerners mourn his loss and openly pledge revenge, while Southerners rejoice in the death of the man who wouldn’t give them the freedom to form their own nation. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She lets her chickens just run here, there, and everywhere, so they escaped their fateful death by flapping up into the treetops. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Solace stared at him in disbelief, but Nico remembered his father’s words in the Chapel of Bones: Some deaths cannot be prevented. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Daniel Taylor had been tried, sentenced to death for espionage, and hanged. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tillie’s death was never investigated, though Morrison admitted to an associate that he had killed her and asked him why he didn’t get an Indian squaw and do the same. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Why she not only didn’t question it, but ran straight to her death without a moment’s hesitation. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

One more who had avoided furious death was the son of Terpis, Phemios, the minstrel, singer by compulsion to the suitors. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herbert was confined on death row for eleven years, until it was his time to face “Yellow Mama.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“A lot of time has gone by and many things have changed since that day. But, Albert, you didn’t cause Marcus’s death ... it was an accident.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Rue's death has forced me to confront my own fury against the cruelty, the injustice they inflict upon us. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

His wife attributes his death to die judgment of God. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a miserable death,” he said, his jokes taken from him again. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When it became clear there was no way to stop the execution, the family turned their attention to what would happen to Mr. Dunkins's body after his death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But the death brought her and her mother doser together, and now Catherine feels like one of us. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was still a part of it all, playing ball, eating, reading, experiencing the death of a family member, and the sadness. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Only on the third day after the death—the day of the funeral—did he have to share the spotlight. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many starved to death or died of disease. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

When a culture grows big enough, it acquires an elite, which needs to monitor things it considers important: money, stored goods, births and deaths, the progression of time. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Though I hadn’t known him, his death brought the war all that much closer to home. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But Samuel had put up a laughing wall against natural laws, and Una’s death breached his battlements. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Take a minute, for example, to make a list of all the people you know whose death would leave you truly devastated. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know what I think is mental? Having a party on the second anniversary of your mother’s death.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He’s “escorting” us away from our whole life, and I don’t think it’s my job to make him feel comfortable about that, even if my mom is giving me the death stare to silence me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

People who listened and told others what they heard were sentenced to death. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

So Dr. Trefusis descended out of the obscurity of death through talk of the underworld, and rejoined the conversation of man. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“On the very last page,” Mom tells Jude, “it says in case of her untimely death, it becomes yours.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A small spotted antelope fell down very near me and presented me with the strange, singular gift of its death. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The scent of Gray’s death was on Pax’s fur, but the foxes knew already. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

After years of prohibition and delay, executions were again taking place in the Deep South, and most of the people crowded on death row had no lawyers and no right to counsel. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Those who were failures, near death, didn’t like working, bad with money, or cheap politicians were specifically not welcome, the same pamphlet said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought war into the world: battles are begun by throwing a spear at the hostile army, dedicating the battle and its deaths to Odin. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The oldest leaders of the Ridgefolk, still guiding and inspiring their people even after death, had stared at me with such intensity that it was almost a relief when they were gone. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The discovery did not come by chance: insects were widely used to test chemicals as agents of death for man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

By the time it’s her turn, we’ve heard about affairs, deaths, abused gay children, bankruptcy, and deportations. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I reached in and turned the twin so that she was delivered head first, but blue as death. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A baptism would lift Lourdes’s constant concern that Diana’s unexpected death will send her daughter to purgatory. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

For those who believe the smallpox is but the expression of the Christian God’s will, there is no cause for aught but celebration in a death, which is a liberation from this flesh. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I am only facing the facts when I know that any moment of any day, or any night, could bring me death. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course dinosaur hunting didn’t end with the deaths of the great nineteenth-century fossil hunters. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Seeing her thrash about while drugged had almost convinced him to order her death. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

For in that sleep of death, what dreams? Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She, pathetically and repeatedly asserting this innocence, although she was in the entanglement which the other trouble had brought her to, knew that the next night might see her burned to death. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran away twice more—the second time in a blizzard, when it was a miracle he didn’t freeze to death. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But I don’t even know if Ben likes NPR or death. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

We have lost the innocence of it, of those days before we knew the extent of the aunts’ rage, before Gran’s death and Granddad’s deterioration. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“I just wanted you to be lovely in death. C’mon,” Ben said looking at his watch, “we’ve got a rendezvous in Paris.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the real world—death, darkness, cold, pain. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In five years, to the incessant sound of trees being clubbed to death, she bore four children. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you can also sing me some death songs.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘That’s where we appeared. Almost fell to our deaths, but luckily I’ve got nimble hooves. You were unconscious, hanging in your harness like a tangled paratrooper until we managed to get you down.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Despite being embalmed, the body began to decompose and smell by Thursday, three days after Garfield's death. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Only the greenwitches remained, and their magic was limited to saying the old rites for birth and marriage and death. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dressed the maiden as though for her death and carried her to the hill with greater sorrowing than if it had been to her tomb. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several weeks before his death, he had to be carried from his hospital bed to make one of his rare public appearances. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Well, Ob had seen how at the supper table you d been too scared to death to ask for anything. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to be somewhere where people wouldn’t be sad, where the thoughts concerned life, not death. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who needs the insight of a child where matters of life and death are at stake? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe, like Laura Cramp, when pressed up against the rocky reality of their son's death, the Millers’ faith finally started to crack. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Illness and death still exist and cannot be hidden. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the work I'd done assisting people on death row, I questioned how prepared I was to do really difficult things. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We exhaled quietly, afraid that our own breathing could cause our death. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They knew that a king's displeasure could mean their death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Maybe I shouldn’t have listened to Boggs, because he might have been in some delusional death state. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“He got on my nerves but I loved him to death,” Cherie recalls. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Besides, I had had enough death for one day, so I tramped back to the car and pushed on. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

If we let these tragedies become growth experiences, if we learn from them, then we have in some way triumphed over the fear and anger and sorrow that death brings. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the tragic fiasco leading to his death helped propel the American medical community into the next century. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

How strange when I had had such feelings of death shoot through my hand and into my body so that I would surely die. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a cold day like this the fleas would surely freeze to death and we’d all have a good night’s sleep. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“To the confusion of the Thought Police? To the death of Big Brother? To humanity? To the future?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“And I’ll make you wish for death, so you have to weigh those options.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

‘It’s the final ingredient to cure death, Zhang. It’s a super daisy! How about you guys? Learn anything from Artemis?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

What had this kind man done to warrant such a horrible death? Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The cat's death struck me as the end of an era. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Shells, gas clouds, and flotillas of tanks—shattering, corroding, death. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Am I correct in saying, Horace, that paragraph four on page four of your autopsy report identifies drowning as the cause of Carl Heine’s death?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hope they wait until the air is clear of death serum. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“The girl lies! Daughter of Athena, choose your way of death. If you do not choose, the god will choose for you!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Jon was not afraid of death, but he did not want to die like that, trussed and bound and beheaded like a common brigand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And with my mother’s death, it was as if that time had come. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Admittedly, Rowan was afraid to die, but what he feared more than death were the depths that he now knew he was capable of reaching. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Tess looked torn between going to be with Ernie and hot leaving Grandma alone to sit and stress herself to death. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The emperor sent curacas, special men to take a census of the number of births and deaths and marriages that had taken place during the year. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Then she catches me watching and gives me her death stare. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Queenie always sang her daddy’s African words, but you knew by the wailing and moaning that they meant death. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It seems that his only close friends were women who lived in towns around the mountain, yet even they could not recall much about him for the doctors who investigated his death. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Riots had already broken out in other cities, including several in North Carolina, on the night of King’s death, and not even Howard Fuller’s admonitions could contain Hayti’s rage forever. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

To Fenn, the smallpox historian, the squabble over the number of deaths and the degree of blame obscures something more important. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At higher frequencies, beyond the violet, is a part of the spectrum called the ultraviolet: a perfectly real kind of light, carrying death to the microbes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The breaking of the conch and the deaths of Piggy and Simon lay over the island like a vapor. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But would she allow her accident to cause the death of yet another gosling? The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

These continued to call me an Uncle Tom, and to threaten me with death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was swollen with death, and it resounded with the boom of drums. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re not a very religious family, but where death is concerned, it pays to be open-minded. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

As all this was taking place, deaths in the city increased, from nineteen on September 1 to forty-two on September 8. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

If she was going to face a fiery death she wanted to do so head-on, not running. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“She was there right after we walked out. But when Celia saw me, I swore she was going to fly across the gym and strangle me to death.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Apparently they were bound to this chamber even in death. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Where were the men who’d come back, who’d laughed and eaten and fought alongside their buddies in Vietnam, mourned them in death? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Dr. William Currie completely rejected Rush’s bloodletting and the use of mercury, saying such methods “cannot fail of being certain death.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Who stands to profit from the deaths of these people?” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

My mind couldn’t hold on to it, to the death of six million people. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He would report her death to the U.S. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A heroic death, like a martyr’s death, is not a defeat, but a triumph. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women would lean over and sniff the flowers, and the men would smile and pretend they weren’t bored to death. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We try to make the death worse every time. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Eight deaths in the space of a week in two houses on the same street...but the city did not take notice. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The bodies were placed in identical coffins, and then it could be seen that once more in death they had become as identical as they had been until adolescence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Hard to summon sorrow, to grieve the deaths of people Laila had never really thought of as alive in the first place. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

A death tremor shakes his flanks, but he picks toward me, jerking his great twisted horns at air. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was the direct cause of death. But this acute alcoholism was a definite contributing factor; probably the main cause of death, if you wish the truth.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

That year also saw the death of Dmitri Mendeleyev. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She had died a coughing, spitting, aching, phlegmy death. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn't long after Miss Fran's death that Cinder closed the liquor store. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Too, death was a lesson these poor people would understand: when the killing started, and maybe only if the killing started, the irrigation of that field would abruptly end. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had watched her, after all, mourn her husband’s death and it had been for her in part the discovery that grief could attach itself with permanence—something Ishmael had already discovered. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a blaze in the air obliterating his sight, hot breath of death, huge noise. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the past few days she had begun to dwell on the idea of death, which she feared less than the pain and humiliation she would have to face that night. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He does not require your death. Only your allegiance. Pledge him your service. Renounce the gods. That is all.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Often at funeral games after the death of kings when you yourself contended, you’ve seen athletes cinch their belts when trophies went on view. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bag had once contained an insecticide called parathion, one of the organic phosphates; tests established death by parathion poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A third volume was so unenticing that it wasn’t published until 1899, more than a century after Hutton’s death, and the fourth and concluding volume was never published at all. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The object itself no longer survives; we last hear of it in 1494, when it is listed among the effects of Lorenzo the Magnificent, the Medici ruler of Florence, on his death. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"Hot Pie wants it bad. He kicked a boy to death. He'll do the same to you, I bet." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was asked to leave Auburn a year later, following the death of an inmate whom he had punished for feigning illness. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sacred mission of the Triple Alliance, Tlacaelel proclaimed, was to furnish this vital substance to Huitzilopochtli, who would then use it for the sun, postponing the death of everyone on the planet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was drama here, I can tell them—thousands upon thousands of us crossing the Rappahannock with banners flying, drums rolling, and our instruments of death gleaming in the sunlight. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life and death went hand in hand amongst the horselords, and a sprinkling of blood was thought to bless a marriage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was full of ennui, full of misery, full of death; there was nothing left in the world that could attract him, that could give him pleasure and solace. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Violations will be punished by imprisonment or by death!" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

His feet began to slip; pebbles and rocks began ringing beneath his feet; he looked up, trembling, in terror of death, and he cried: “Lord, I can’t come no higher.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The viruses, instead of being single-minded agents of disease and death, now begin to look more like mobile genes. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no way in hell I would’ve been chill with myself for beating someone to death. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

‘It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam,’ said Frodo, ‘and I could not have borne that.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They sailed straight into those jaws of death, their small, red bodies taking the ripping, slashing claws meant for me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nooses were slipped over their necks and, at 1:26 P.M., they dropped to their deaths. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there is a noise like death—a noise like nothing else we’ve heard before. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

He passed hordes of scrawny, dirty people who seemed on the edge of death. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

His father, who worked as a store merchant, court clerk, and bank cashier, remarried five years after his wife's death. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A Currier & Ives lithograph of the death of President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

My father had wanted to be buried in Haiti, but at the time of his death there was no way that we could have afforded it. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“In winter, the lazy man freezes to death.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

That way, if a stray meatball plummets to its death, he’ll be right there to catch it. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But there’s no other solution we’ve come up with that doesn’t involve death—or at least the chance of it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She announced the death of her godfather, Don Salomon Valdes, a broker at the stock exchange, who, convinced that he had lost everything he owned, hanged himself from the chandelier in his elegant office. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yessir,” the guard said, confirming this, “they got the death penalty.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

That August, as the number of suspicious deaths continued to climb, many Osage prevailed upon Barney McBride, a wealthy fifty-five-year-old white oilman, to go to Washington, D.C., and ask federal authorities to investigate. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Who knows what death camp ashes blew daily through the head of Mrs. Finestein, in those years right after the war? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the fish came alive, with his death in him, and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No sight so sad as that of a naughty child,” he began, “especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The room fills with a small army of elected officials, all of whom wish to witness the historic moment of Lincoln’s death. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She had, of course, left Madame Williams’s immediately upon the death of Richard, saying that she had found a sleep-in job in the country. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I saw the bullet wound in his chest every morning when he got out of the shower, like a tiny crater or a third nipple, a symbol of near death. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We talked about Lupito’s death, but I did not tell Jasón what I had seen. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Bernal’s death many researchers have come to view the Olmec differently. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When it came, she knew it would mean death. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As Sonny told me the news of Deborah’s death, I sat staring at a framed picture of her that’s been on my desk for nearly a decade. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Philip of Macedon was made captain of their army by the Thebans after the death of Epaminondas, and after the victory he took their liberty away from them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He can’t work anymore, and he’s just sitting at home, surrounded by his eight children, brooding about his approaching death. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The line between their bodies and ours, between their deaths and ours, is not very sharp. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There had always been something inward and painfully shy about Mike, but the death of his father forced him to grow up even faster than he already had. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think this voyage he is on leads him to his death,” the girl said, “and he fears that, yet he goes on.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“We were prepared for the possibility of death.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

What scared Stanley the most about dying wasn't his actual death. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“It is death from natural causes,” she said with confidence. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“We are so afraid of the sight of death,” Morrie told me when I sat down. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the dusty plains before the walls of Troy, thousands upon thousands of soldiers take part in the dance of death. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I would finally be able to restore to my mother the wealth and prestige that she had lost after my father’s death. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

People said that he had aged terribly after his beloved wife’s death, when Jean was just a small child. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

An old-fashioned fistfight to the death will do me good. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Scattered over lawns throughout the neighborhood were dozens of copies of an anarchist pamphlet that advocated death to all government officials. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In the reality of the USSR, millions of people were tortured and starved to death in the first years of the Communist Party state. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He was sleeping when Catelyn entered, his hair and beard as white as his featherbed, his once portly frame turned small and frail by the death that grew within him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He saw it as “the kiss of death.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand on the roof of the Hancock building, near the zip line where the Dauntless flirt with death. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They wouldn't tell Walter where he was going, but as soon as they got on the road it was clear that they were taking him back to death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The river of death,” Pixie said, in her very un-deathlike voice. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The following day, Mr. Lawson writes “Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol” in capital letters on the board, draws a box around it, then writes the dates of the author’s birth and death in parentheses. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Blind, gasping for air, and unable to speak, Anya was convinced these fools were going to crush her to death. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it’s out of your control.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wouldn't he be more likely to revenge Rue's death than I would? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There was more to learn about death than either of them had ever considered. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Any freedman who became too prosperous or too outspoken was marked for death. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I have done terrible things... betrayed my own, turned my cloak, ordered the death of men who trusted me ... but I am no kinslayer.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps her death left an empty space in his life. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the negotiations were concluded, the gods and Skadi had agreed that she would be recompensed for her father’s death in three ways. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I can tell that. I starvin to death in this cat- house.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave voice to how hard it must be to visit someone on death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m so glad to see you. Jello scares me to death these days.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could the cannon shot announcing her death have come in the wee hours of the morning when even my good ear was too broken to pick it up? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She would be imprisoned wherever she stood...maybe for days...maybe till death. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s true you might not get to control your funeral, but sometimes you do get to choose your death. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘They take that as a challenge for a duel to the death.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The voice that had screamed out the death of enemy pilots in the Pacific. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Choszle!”—Stinks to death in there!—muttered my mother when she returned. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Suddenly I got all sorts of game because I’m your friend. They think I can get them access to your ring. Immunity talks; death walks.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And here we were facing death together in a hundred square feet of boat. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the first anniversary of Halliday’s death arrived, the fervor surrounding the contest began to die down. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Antoninus had shamefully put to death that centurion’s brother, and he threatened the man every day, yet he kept him as a bodyguard. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly every attempt to domesticate a mosasaurus, he went on, somewhat rudely Magdalys now thought, has ended in dismemberment and death. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There was no point hashing it out now, right before certain death. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I swear my older sister will be the death of me! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “I’m not going to the abbey. I’ve got to find my parents. They’re probably worried to death about me.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I pondered awhile, searching my memory: then it came to me: the man who had called after Raja’s death. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was clear death had come to Manifest and would not be brushed aside. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was transferred to a hospital and spent two weeks between life and death. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grover wasn’t dead, thank the gods, but his whole body trembled like he was freezing to death. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

But it’s an irony of human communication that the more beautiful or lively or effective the figure of speech, the more likely it will be loved, remembered, repeated, worn out, and finally worked to death. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They only look at us and see two twelve-year-old girls, and so think we know nothing about life or death. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It is for the few to know that in the great old days of Virginia there were three punishments for high crimes—death, exile to Texas, and imprisonment, in that order. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I miss when I was so young I didn’t know to be afraid of death. I even miss yesterday when I was paranoid and not actually dying.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now, thanks to the educational seminars and emergency care provided by the clinic’s volunteer staff, that mortality rate has been cut to less than one death per 30,000 trekkers. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever my parents talked about bombings or death or sex or politics, they routinely, without fail, asked us children to leave the room. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For all their complaining, they loved Beowulf, and they could not bear the thought of his going alone to what looked like certain death. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was certain that at any moment the cloth would tear, or the hook would slip, and Violet would be sent tumbling to her death. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

More than thirty years after Henrietta’s death, research on HeLa cells finally helped uncover how her cancer started and why her cells never died. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Our teacher, Mr. Siegfried, turned to see what was going on, and Stephanie, having properly scared every one of the guilty five to death, smiled, closed the door, and took her seat. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I utter my first words since my sister’s death. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

"What use is that? How many times have you seen someone wrestle someone to death?" says Peeta in disgust. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know, couldn’t know, how he or his people would perform in a chaotic situation involving intense fear of an unpleasant death. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow the women who came to mourn Ultima’s death would help my mother dress her in black, and my father would make her a fine pine coffin. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was exhausting, hazardous work, and a single misstep could mean death. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

If she could buy Drogo's life with the death of a horse, she would pay a thousand times over. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was a death on the ninth day in the car ahead of Billy’s too. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a start, Thomas realized it was the black-haired guy who’d given him the look of death earlier. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Thomas was eager to do so, but was also scared to death it might end up being nothing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

As the son of Macon Dead the first, he paid homage to his own father’s life and death by loving what that father had loved: property, good solid property, the bountifulness of life. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The atmosphere of the crowd told him that they were going to use his death as a bloody symbol of fear to wave before the eyes of that black world. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Caesar had been planning to invade Parthia at the time of his death, and Mark Antony made Caesar’s mission his own. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Looking back, I see it took about ten years for Mommy to recover from my stepfather’s death. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jethro frowned; he didn’t like to think of his sister Mary’s death, but some memory had been touched off as his thoughts wandered. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That man has a nose for death,” Miss Volker said, noticing the stretcher. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“No idea. Which is why I’m scared to death that what we’re about to do is a whole pile of stupid. Could be a bloodbath.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A gang of black boys pulled the man from his horse and cart, stabbed him to death, and left his body in the street. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was no deformity or anything terrible about her death. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Daddy... Percy needs me. I have to deliver a message. It's life or death.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

With my death, he predicts a turning of the tide in the war, since the demoralized rebels have no one left to follow. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Fire truck’s on its way. Get back inside. You’ll freeze to death.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nature deemed that to be born was an automatic sentence to death, and then brought about that death with vicious consistency. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“If you fall and kill yourself, I might starve to death all tied up like this.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As for what would happen, I could see little but an early death in an unmarked grave—if I were lucky to have even that. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It had something to do with the buffalo, with falling, with death. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

So they would tell each other it had happened, a lovely miracle which made the cruel death seem less cruel. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My plan for a new law project to represent people on death row in Alabama was starting to take shape. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The women, played by Angelina, Marguerite, and Isabel, lament the death of their Savior, moving their hands in small and eloquent arcs as they sing. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Patron Saint of Gallarate: Saint Christopher, who watches over travelers, children, and bachelors, and protects against storms, holy death, and toothaches. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was still alive but paralyzed, sentenced to a slow death. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He once told me that death is the eternal sleep. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first spy to be trapped in the Cold War's net maintained his innocence until his death. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“They weren’t after the memory serum. They were after poison—death serum. So that they could kill a bunch of important government people and start a war.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Martin was perhaps the first public advocate of the “covenant with death” interpretation of the Constitution, as well as the first former delegate to denounce the Sectional Compromise as a corrupt bargain. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Scores of innocent people have been exonerated after being sentenced to death and nearly executed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Tell me true, and I promise you shall have a swift, clean death.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Any word releasing breath might be the sentence of death; any word inhaled, be it “is,” or “sweet,” or “the.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“I hope you’re right, Hazel. You see, it’s a battle to the death ” She waited for that to sink in. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

All day I would hear the sirens of death. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

High spots in Stamps were usually negative: droughts, floods, lynchings and deaths. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

You have never heard such music, how it made us believe death was nothing but a doorway. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any direct hit would bring death to the entire crew, and they all had to know it, and still they came. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I lost my cohort twice in Alaska - once in life, once in death to a Graecus named Percy Jackson. Still I have come here to answer Gaia’s call. Do you know why?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Another Peking, China paper, Jenmin Jihpao, said that the death showed that “in dealing with imperialist oppressors, violence must be met with violence. ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the years after Prince Jones died, I thought often of those who were left to make their lives in the shadow of his death. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Grabbing my head to squeeze out even the thought of them falling to their deaths, I pushed words right out of my mouth. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Still feigning death on the ground, he understood. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I didn't tell Walter about the death threats and bomb threats we'd received until he was free, and then I told him that we needed to be careful. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“He did. His ship Revenge captured the ship I was on, The Queen’s Pride, and we were all to be put to death.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He asked who would avenge Balder’s death, and her answer puzzled him. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Richard was almost relieved to learn of Sir Winston Churchill’s death. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That was too easy a death for this psycho. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I probably needed time to get over my father’s death. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Other than being lowered to my death, yes.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They were, of course, just same as Granny’s death was still in the Toy Bible. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she had come to register a death, and her words merely the lonely lashings-out of grief, but he felt the familiar tightening of panic in his chest. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Will I let her fall to her death, or will I resign myself to being factionless? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Do not let Anne’s death be in vain,” Miep said, using her words to bring it all together. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Remorse aside, Farmer and Jim knew the clinical facts of Jack’s death were the real issue. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“But the tears are necessary. Don’t you remember what Othello said? ‘If after every tempest came such calms, may the winds blow till they have wakened death.’ Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was no longer excited about the war; I had begun to understand that it meant death and destruction. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second half of the nineteenth century was, for music, all about destiny too, though since music was dominated by Germans, Italians, Frenchmen and Russians, tragedy triumphed, and it all ended in death. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“It is like the death of a dear friend.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was Jenna’s idea that I bring my grandfather a present on the one-year anniversary of his death. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I pressed the camera button and snapped a picture of death. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I would tell de Wet that I was prepared to die secure in the knowledge that my death would be an inspiration to the cause for which I was giving my life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Vladimir's death, the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs was tasked with protecting the Black Book from Moreau and those magician apprentices who avoided capture. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I thought of a statistic I wish I didn’t know: Half of marriages end in the year after a child’s death. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

My mother still tortured herself with what-ifs concerning my father’s death. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It was just the whole death thing, and the fact that I would have to be around sad people all the time. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Climate change causes the glaciers to melt, which causes the acidification of the world’s oceans, resulting in the death of most sea life. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He had to leap, and by his death, the others would live. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The cowled figure perhaps surveyed us, or perhaps was hunched in sleep or even death. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He did not know if his stomach problems and his heart palpitations would lead to his death. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I’m told he had a lock of hair shot away. He came that close to death.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If it’s not the war,” she thought, “it can only be death.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

So much of the divorce, and the other man, had bothered him, but coming close to death in the woods had led him to understand some things about himself and other people. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sickening—if it was a messy death it would all be my fault. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

That night I burned up most of the wood I had collected, unable to sleep for facing my death—if not death here, then death someday. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s easy to choose between Bellmont and anywhere else, because I don’t want to end up alone rotting away in a row home drinking myself to death. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting in Ms. Washington’s waiting for class to start, and when Zoey walks in, I brace myself for her evil death stare. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

What that meant for Alabama death row prisoners and EJI staff was seventeen executions in thirty months. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

So when a man is taken farther and farther away from experience, he is being taken to his death. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already the whispers have started in the streets and dark alleys, rumors that Day has cheated death once again. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Then, in a burst, I recalled my mothers death and burial, my leaving the cemetery and the priest, my plunge mto the woods. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

These voices, these quiet words, these footsteps in the trench behind me recall me at a bound from the terrible loneliness and fear of death by which I had been almost destroyed. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ultima sat by me, powerless in the face of death. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Crookshanks could see the dog as well, how could it be an omen of Harry’s death? Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

As if he’s already resigned himself to death. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

After all, the death of a friend is a traumatic experience in itself. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Flint, Flo’s death was a blow from which he never recovered. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Like someone could catch the ‘black death of ugliness.’” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

You fight with anything you've got because it's a matter of life and death. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

But the sun would be up soon, so I knew I could crash there in my hideout without worrying that I would freeze to death. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was already a good day for death, and I was about to go down in history. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One result of the subsequent roadside spraying was the death of a dozen cows from arsenic poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

For the state, a death sentence would be the most practical verdict. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet hearing about his death left him sober. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Which will be our fate: big crunch or heat death? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But Mithridates was immune to such a death. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Even human beings had not only an immaterial mind but a material sensitive soul, capable of a physical presence after death. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Soon after the conqueror’s death, Ptolemy, a childhood companion, advisor, and officer in long service to Alexander, solicited the fiefdom of Egypt. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe this is my final moment, the scene that leads to my death. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But then all the lights shut off, plunging us into a darkness that, to my six-year-old mind, was worse than death and Brussels sprouts. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He wrote down “pneumonia” in the blank after “Cause of death.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to talk about anybody’s death, not my own near experience that everyone keeps asking about. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Around this time, in 1887, a New York murderer was put to death the old way—on the gallows. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She is. Her mother cannot see it. Nor you, it seems. Yet death is there.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Several surgeons with gunshot wound experience declared that damage to the vertebrae and ribs alone would not cause death. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had heard or read somewhere that right before a person freezes to death, he suddenly feels nice and warm. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

By doing so, Cabot Searcy felt that he would be able to keep himself from getting too distracted by Benton’s death and move on with his life. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Look at this! How are you not bleeding to death right now?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Go up 1 percent to a 96 percent death rate and the figure jumps to 12.5 million—creating more than two million people arithmetically from a tiny increase in mortality rates. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The minister went home, and the sisters from the church abandoned their death watch, declaring they had witnessed a miracle. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn my attention to the platform, where death awaits me in the form of a polished ax held by my best friend. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Columns of bones held up a vaulted ceiling decorated with images of death. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I did not believe you would destroy yourself from grief or rejected love. Thus I supposed that you only feigned your death,” she said, with the satisfaction of someone solving a puzzle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It had been converted, following the abolition of the death penalty in New York State, to a vocational building with modest print, drafting, woodworking, welding, and small-engine shops. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One woman was stung by a red scorpion, but hers was the only death. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even though she had grown up on a farm, where her father had raised livestock for food, she had never been able to bear easily the death of an animal. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He beat the animal to death with a hammer and threw its limp body out a window. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And in a circle around him stood the buzzards, waiting for the moment of death they know so well. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isn’t it ridiculous, after all, to think that a son could forgive his father for beating the drum that sent him to his death? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then Thalia Grace became their leader and started recruiting even more young women to their cause, which grated on Nico - as if Bianca’s death could be forgotten. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

None of them ever talked about Az’s death. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was standing on the tracks, listening to death’s locomotive whistle, and he was very clear about the important things in life. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week later Betsy was crushed to death beneath the wheels of a coal wagon. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Liza it was simply death—the thing promised and expected. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was not seen again; it is assumed he broke through a thin snow bridge and plummeted to his death at the bottom of one of the deep fissures. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the night of March 9th, 1945, an air attack on Tokyo by American heavy bombers, using incendiary and high explosive bombs, caused the death of 83,193 people. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Supreme Court ruled the death penalty for nonhomicides unconstitutional and international law strongly disfavors the practice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He and Robbie had been so close, and he could not overcome feeling responsible for Rob’s death. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Considering my whole situation, I was not about to be bothered by the spectrum of death at our picnic. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was walking along singing my lungs out when they came tearing out of the underbrush, wiggling and twisting, and tickled to death to be with me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He won’t ever forget her, or the tragedy of her death. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Today was the first morning that Mango’s death didn’t crush me the second I opened my eyes. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A great loss, however, was the death of the trusty pilot Palinurus who was drowned as they neared the end of their perils by sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept expecting one of them to snap and send me plummeting to my death. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Are the extinguished candles a symbol of death, or of Pa’s inability to be bold in life? Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I will no longer live among men,” he told her, “if I do not make Hector pay with his death for Patroclus dead.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

After their mother’s death, the two boys were sent off to a small hotel in the Connecticut woods where several families shared a large cabin and a communal kitchen. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Connor let out a dramatic sigh, clearly disappointed we wouldn’t get to battle each other to our bloody virtual deaths. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But that’s what people did in Nazi Germany while people were being tortured and murdered, children gassed to death like vermin. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Coach of the Old Dominion Kiwanis has come to this hospital, to this strange outfield, to this old dominion of cancer, to this old dominion of death, coaching in the ward of the doomed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a community exists in District 13, would it be better to go there, where I might be able to accomplish something, instead of waiting here for my death? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

His death was a severe setback to the government, and the effectiveness and aggressiveness of the Crown team diminished from that point on. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In subsequent months, death tallies exceeding 500 were common. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

It had been shortly after Pauline’s death, and there had been much excitement in the art world when this previously unknown photograph had been put up for sale. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the first six months of 1892 the city experienced nearly eight hundred violent deaths. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She thought of that far-off day when John had come into the world—that moment, the beginning of her life and death. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Other prisoners had advised him to take action and file a federal complaint, since he couldn't legally be held on death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“That all that stuff about happy endings is lies. The only ending in this world is death. Now that might or might not be happy, but either way, you ain’t ready to die, are you?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I had seen the devil Tenorio murder Narciso, and now there was no telling what he might do to avenge his daughter’s death. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long time ago, back in the days when people still got pressed to death, a witch lived on this side of the river. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They provided inspiration for her own death announcement, which she’d worked and reworked. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were hoops and hollers from children and growned folks both, screams that had you thinking someone was looking death right in the throat but that quick turned to laughs that were kind of ’shamed-sounding. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“It means ‘the urge to be, to count for something, and, if death must come, to die valiantly, with acclamation—in short, to remain a memory.’ All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Then we’ll keep having this conversation every single day, over and over again until you are sick to death of hearing it. Until you finally stop.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Any young boy's death is a slice across the pristine circle. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The gods are doomed and the end is death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mexican police called her death an accident. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

In a way she was jealous of death. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It falls to us to pick up the mantle, to live by Kamal’s example and ensure that his life is not forgotten and that his death was not in vain. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There were concerns that Hani’s death might trigger a racial war, with the youth deciding that their hero should become a martyr for whom they would lay down their own lives. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the run or there was death with nothing in between. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He would have liked to say something about solitude, about night, about the mesa lying pale under the moon, about the precipice, the plunge into shadowy darkness, about death. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following my first McMillian argument, we had filed almost two dozen death penalty appeals, and the court was starting to respond to our advocacy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Yet for a week after the application of the insecticide the water remained poisonous, a fact attested by the daily deaths of goldfish suspended in cages downstream. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It looked like my test was bleeding to death. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was to have the birth and death room. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you're planning your own death? Where is this guy, anyway?” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Morrison warned that if anyone discovered he was working for the feds, it would mean his death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I played my scene of madness to its end so that my seeming death would not be doubted. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“If you said them to a complete stranger, they would fight you in a duel to the death.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

‘As to the manner of his death, I had hoped that his friend and companion would tell me how it was.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The death of Violetta was meant to strike shame into Verdi’s audiences’ hearts, as it did the meddling father of her lover in the final scene. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to give me the reward?” the child stammered, frightened to death. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were called Boazers, and they had the power of life and death over us junior boys. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

"For the love I bore your lord husband, let me avenge his death." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“The Terrenon, that knows all births and deaths and beings before and after death, the unborn and the undying, the bright world and the dark one, will tell you that name.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

When Walter was on death row, he once told me how ill he had become during the execution of one of the men on his tier. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

That maybe this L.A. is another kind of beast—one that dazes you to death. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

And despite her misgivings about the religious ramifications, Emma not only agreed she would publish this draft in case of his sudden death, she also helped him make it better. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the adjoining sector they attacked two large cats and a dog, bit them to death and devoured them. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And because Roscuro was dazzled by the light of one match and journeyed upstairs and fell into the queens soup and the queen died, the king ordered the death of every rat in the land. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“It can’t have been a death omen,” he told his reflection defiantly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Lacey sat next to him, because “I should make sure he doesn’t puke or beat himself to death with his beer hand or whatever.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I had seen those movies where the patriarch of the family is on his death bed and he calls for his estranged son so that he can make peace before he goes. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though he had killed a black girl and a white girl, he knew that it would be for the death of the white girl that he would be punished. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Beat it. Trade from people like you is the kiss of death.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was about to plummet to his death. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Ziemer emphasized that this alarming death rate hadn’t been skewed upward by mountaineering accidents; the victims had been “just ordinary trekkers who never ventured beyond the established trails.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A glass vial shatters on the floor, spilling thick blood that forms the shape of a grinning death’s head. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He asked about the humility that death induced. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

You have forfeited your right to a quick death, the giant snarled. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Russell and Neil were the first people I had talked to that week who didn’t tell me they were sorry for Oslo’s death. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

His death will not bring any of them back. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You don’t so much sleep as borrow eight hours from death. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The candles and the incense sticks, lit the day before to mark his death anniversary, had burned out. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glancing back, he saw all the carnage, death and misery he had caused in his career. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The sly harp rasped like snakes in cattails, glorifying death. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one side of the gulch was a fine old adobe and on the other the house of the doctor who handled all the sickness, birth, and death in the town. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had always said that families should be protected in case of death. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think you are right,” Miss Volker agreed as Mr. Huffer reached into his jacket pocket and removed the medical examiner paperwork and certificate of death. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She could accept death if she had to, but if the Athena Parthenos was destroyed their quest would fail. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Katrina’s death had changed nothing in the lives of the people. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That they laughed and wagered upon our deaths? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She told them that she could not marry until she had woven a very fine and exquisitely wrought shroud for Odysseus’ father, the aged Laertes, against the day of his death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s possible that death is what she will use—killing people would certainly keep them quiet, stifle their revolution before it begins. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Then I thought about my father’s death, growing more certain that it involved foul play. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Joyce’s father, in fact, was well on his way to working himself to death. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The room smelled of smoke and blood and death. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was lying on his side with his knees tucked tight to his chest as if he was already working at not freezing to death. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Every day and every hour, every shell and every death cuts into this thin support, and the years waste it rapidly. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was his father, reading the death warrant. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We resumed our debate, a battle to the death, with sharp scientific evidence to support our chosen theory—Tamika, Team Egg, and me, Team Chicken. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He did not return for two years, not long before Old Randall’s death, to apologize in person for his failure. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

After the death of Duke Filippo, the Milanese employed Francesco Sforza to wage war against the Venetians; having defeated the enemy at Caravaggio, he joined with them to oppress the Milanese, his employers. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Given the lack of previous investigation, it may have been inevitable that when Dobyns traced births and deaths in Lima he would be staking out new ground. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Records attesting to his death were pullulating like insect eggs and verifying each other beyond all contendon. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“It is still a death sentence, just one a little longer in the making. We discovered long ago that the Grisha could prove a useful resource.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

An activity may be very dangerous but quite rare, and thus would result in few deaths and have a high safety index. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my work shoes is so thin, they look like they starving to death. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He had the prisoner put into the stocks until he could prove his identity and he resolved to defend the town to the death. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was dangerous weather; she could freeze to death. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this excellent situation for sailors Odysseus’ crew managed to bring them all near to death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy’s death was a complication of her escape, like the absence of a full moon or losing the head start because Lovey had been discovered out of her cabin. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The thought of death and bombs frightened me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I really could go on for pages about all the public histrionics in the days after Bunny’s death. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I had lost control of myself and seemed possessed by a sinister force, which made me mindless of my safety, which spurred me toward reckless action, unafraid of death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blood reeked, somehow, of death and decay. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

This process of turning seawater into drinking water is important: it means that a shipwreck on the frozen sea does not necessarily mean certain death. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Although it might be the death of me, I couldn’t turn away from this. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Our village had lost more than half its inhabitants, some by death, others by a desperate fleeing. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

After my father had died, I had spent weeks trying to put his death into words. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The resolution of my spiritual dilemma, if there is to be one before death, will have to take place where it began, among persons who do not share my religious convictions. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could I be responsible for the deaths of so many? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I don’t want a link to my death. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

His mysterious death sixteen days later raised charges by blacks that he had been cold-bloodedly murdered by the South African police. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Planets were widely thought to be a direct cause of death. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only when threatened with death could that happen; only in fear and shame, with their backs against a wall, could that happen. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t say anything because the subject of death made me pale and feel cold except for the very tip of my nose, which was heating up like a match head about to combust. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And Odysseus looked around him, narrow-eyed, for any others who had lain hidden while death’s black fury passed. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Upon his death, the Empire will fall unless a new Warrior Emperor is chosen. “Taius the First, Father of our Empire and Pater of Gens Taia, was the finest fighter of his time. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

This individual was so nearly destroyed that he had passed into that calm, quiet mental state that immediately precedes death by drowning. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard him murmur, “I am guiltless of your father’s death.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But to create something lasting of his death takes time and careful planning —" "Gentlemahn," Ras shouted, "stick to the issue. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon it at a sign from Denethor they laid Faramir and his father side by side, and covered them with one covering, and stood then with bowed heads as mourners beside a bed of death. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He felt on the edge of death with the desire for it, and presently, without his being able to prevent it, his eyes closed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Her tummy’s got a little fat on it, her cheeks aren’t so hollow as they were, out here starving her and Mister Johnny to death. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I would say he cut his hand on the night he died, and in the hour or two just preceding his death. Very recent, okay?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was an air of death that she’d felt standing before that black void summoned by Cain. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

After dessert, Al’s men lock the doors and Capone beats the traitors to death with a baseball bat. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took them off one by one, crushing them with a firebrand before they bled her to death. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And because the death penalty is rarely given for crimes other than homicide, its deterrent effect cannot account for a speck of decline in other violent crimes. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

After death, the souls of the Orthodox do not wing their way directly to heaven. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

By the roadside stood another sign that warned of death, the letters faded with the years. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The meeting was breaking up just as Stella decided she and Tony were about to surely freeze to death. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You went...you went to Endovier? Endovier is a death camp. But...why did you not tell me? Do you not trust me?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And in front of him there lay not death but annihilation. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He wondered if Forest had teased Stocktender first, burning and cutting him before the final moments of his hideous death. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

But he would not talk of her death and he rose and went out when she spoke of it. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in the shadow of death. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

You'll probably either drown while working the water turbines or get steamed to death in the power plants. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He was hugged half to death and it felt good. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

The gods dispatched messengers everywhere to ask all creation to shed tears so that Balder could be redeemed from death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is frightening your theologians to death, but they are the ones who frighten me. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is little to occupy us upon the Crepuscule, now that we have witnessed the death. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She brought about the death of Pelias by a cunning trick. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Bite your tongue, cousin. Haven't you had enough brushes with death for one day?" Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Every week since Dorcas’ death, during the whole of January and February, a paper laid bare the bones of some broken woman. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naturally it shocked us half to death to hear somebody caterwauling at Father this way. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Through the prayers, hymns, and stories that neighbors stood up to tell, Peach moaned every time the word death was used. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not fancy heroic deaths either, just careless ones. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

But Kevin’s death had made it hard for him to think about much of anything. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her favorite stories were those about people who came back, after death, as a bird or a river or a horse. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I trust, madam,” I said calmly, “that there is no reason to anticipate his death.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When you think about it, there is no common thread of ownership, or any other meaning, across the phrases Sophocles’ play, Sophocles’ nose, Sophocles’ toga, Sophocles’mother, Sophocles’ hometown, Sophocles’ era, and Sophocles’ death. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was awful; when you looked up a person, you were supposed to see stories about their life, not their terrible death. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He was outnumbered, and though we were just a bunch of unarmed children, we’d been responsible for the death of one wight and two hollowgast in the last three days. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Local police ignored the obvious evidence that the death was a hate crime and hypothesized that Donald must have been involved in drug dealing, which his mother adamantly denied. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The death of his son in 1867 more or less killed him. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He broke down the issues with the death penalty simply but persuasively, and I hung on every word, completely engaged by his dedication and charisma. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death—ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, As we walked through the double doors and entered the cold and scary room at the Holocaust Museum, silence fell upon me as I looked at the death of millions. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Wormtail here, who had faked his own death to escape justice, was driven out of hiding by those he had once counted friends, and decided to return to his master. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A short time before the death of Amaranta she suddenly stumbled into an open space of lucidity within the madness and she trembled before the uncertainty of the future. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We will have to give up the notion that death is catastrophe, or detestable, or avoidable, or even strange. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early that evening while Grampa was dozing in his chair and I was flipping through old magazines trying to keep my mind off the trial, torture, death, and R.C. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Later, we heard about the obscure white parliamentary messenger who stabbed Verwoerd to death, and we wondered at his motives. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Very good, Jude. I am glad someone has been paying attention. Now, who would like to tell me when those deaths are most likely to occur?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Oh, not death,” said Dumbledore, in answer to Harry’s questioning look. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

You're not going to let Dill bleed to death or choke on his own vomit in there. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

In fact, Matt silently realized, El Patron was capable of ordering her death. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew—as he knew—that it was a stand-up fight with death, and in a pause told him so. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Winter is an inimical world; its punishment for doing things wrong is sure and prompt: death from cold or death from hunger. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever her father had condemned a man to death, he did the deed himself with Ice, his greatsword. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

All five women on Alabama's death row were condemned for the unexplained deaths of their young children or the deaths of abusive spouses or boyfriends—all of them. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Instead the bomb shelter made me chew on my lip with dread because it was all about death. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

This saint tackles difficult situations, matters of life and death. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In fact, Mudgett was convinced that the fundamentals of the approach had merit—that by faking the deaths of others, he could indeed fleece life insurance companies. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She had never violated it, even in the warm, gas-heated house in Barrow, for damp clothes could mean death in the Arctic. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aphrodite blotted out Paris once, saving him from certain death at the hands of Menelaus. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She leaned in for a kiss, but before I could meet her in the middle, the funeral home door flew open again, banging against the wall, scaring us both half to death. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And in his lucid moments, death occupied him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had seen death many times by now. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But fear and death were laughed at and another round ordered. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But what would they do? Hitch us to a pickup and drag us behind? Shoot me in my yard front a my kids? Or just starve us to death?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

All his crimes weighed heavy on him, the deaths of Stilson and Bonzo no heavier and no lighter than the rest. Ender's Game 1985-01-15T00:00:00Z

I didn't have a basic grasp of the complex appeals process that shaped death penalty litigation, a process that would in time become as familiar to me as the back of my hand. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In my hand I held the tract containing the sudden death of the Liar, to which narrative my attention had been pointed as to an appropriate warning. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Your death taps you on the shoulder, or takes your hand, and says, ‘Come along o’ me, it’s time.’ The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Hadn’t I just read that exposure could inflict a quick death? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He just lay perfectly still—as if he were sleeping, or frightened to death. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have many death in your village, hey?” said the trader suddenly. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The main character was an aging banker who jumps to his death after being financially ruined. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The bodies lie motionless, some bloated, others skeletal, all on the verge of death. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a black person violated the accepted code of behavior, whether by talking back to a bus driver or daring to try to vote, he knew he might well be punished, perhaps by death. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The judge could go for the death penalty if they plead not guilty. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know that death is never added to death; it multiplies. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I grew anxious thinking about witnessing the spectacle of a man being electrocuted, burned to death in front of me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Remembering this incident years later, Billy was struck by what a Tralfamadorian adventure with death that had been, to be dead and to eat at the same time. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I believe in my heart of hearts that he suffered as much about Lucy’s death as any of us; but he bore himself through it like a moral Viking. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

A man might drift to his death before his time unnoticed, but when he was dead and beyond any care then at last he was sure of attention.... Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been afraid of the word death before and now this word, coma. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps wearing a disguise, you would look around the bank and observe security guards, cameras, and other obstacles, so you could plan how to avoid capture or death during your burglary. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

But the strong body resisted death many times through the long night. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They understood how death was part of life. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The elevator doors pulled open, and the all-too-familiar stench of death greeted them before they saw the body of their sister curled up in a ball on the elevator floor. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

To do justice to the increased obsession with death and destiny, someone needed to turbocharge music’s engine. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I never considered death or the possibility of a life hereafter. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

At J. T.’s direction, the ledgers had been rigorously compiled: sales, wages, dues, even the death benefits paid out to the families of murdered members. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Had all the island animals frozen to death? The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“He did indeed. Black was tired of his double-agent role, he was ready to declare his support openly for You-Know-Who, and he seems to have planned this for the moment of the Potters’ death. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

By the time Katherine finishes detailing the viciousness of her nonexistent stepmother and the death of her father, the preacher is near to tears himself. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Loudly she asked the gods to defend her in her innocence; silently she prayed for her accusers to suffer sudden, painful deaths. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

To Bull, death could be a matter of inches and could be read as clearly as an alphabet in the lidless eyes of gauges. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, I remember, we paused over a snapshot of Ted Lavender, and after a while Jimmy rubbed his eyes and said he’d never forgiven himself for Lavender’s death. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And probably, one day, my guard would relax too much, I’d get old and slow and distracted, and I would die his death. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But in their triumph they did not stop to think that this death, too, like all the others, would surely bring evil in its train. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the years prior to his death, when Halliday had been living in seclusion, the only thing he’d posted on his website was a brief looping animation. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They machine-gunned the inmates to death and then burned the bodies. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Many of my Alabama clients were on death row for crimes they were accused of committing when they were sixteen- or seventeen-year-old children. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The first words out of the pastor’s mouth were “We are not here to mourn a death. We’re here to celebrate a life, gone on to glory.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe it was the shadow of death. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Diego blushed redder than ketchup, and I flashed my brother a death stare. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

All he said, however, was “With your mother gone you’re required to deliver your ox to the manor house tomorrow. It will serve as the death tax.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I painted it for my brother, after his death. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he had approached the duke about Verin’s death, he hadn’t seemed bothered. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Like someone didn’t just fall to her death from it. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Why had his death not caused me more pain? October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“When a bat and a human bond, they swear to fight to the death for each other,” said Luxa. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If a rat thing gets me, I hope you’ll beat it to death,” she said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

All the noble aspects of the sacrificial animals had gone, with their deaths, into Mwan s country. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was serene and purposeful as always when death turned his attention to someone who belonged to her, as she was when death breathed in her father’s wispy hair and blew the strands about. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all the decisive victories of the day my life was to end in sticky death. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if they could result in the death of a wild hog. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“There’s one theory I like that says in order to understand death, we have to look at birth.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Lucas’s brother, well on his way to becoming the alcoholic that his father had been, burned to death in a car crash three years after that. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

My stomach churns with nausea at the thought of death. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone on death row wanted to advise him, and everyone had a story to tell. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Truly, I am sorry for your father’s death,” I said with earnest feeling. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my husband and myself worried ourselves nearly to death. Of course, once we emigrated that worry vanished, fortunately forever.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He told me he knew about the souls passing through me at the moment of death. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A quick death here would be a hundred times better than returning to Lord Ramsay as a failure. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The old dame who had been their nurse fetched dry jerkins out of a press, and scolded them for retching their deaths, and denounced Sir Ector for keeping on so long. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as you listen to your own heart beating in death's shadow? The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I had no right to expect anything from a condemned man on death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The medical examiner will determine if these were homicides, accidents, natural deaths—” “Natural?” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

My third selection, also related to death, showcases yet another tone and style, and stands as further proof that good writing does not fit into a single formula. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Reckless endangerment: “under circumstances not amounting to a felony office, the person recklessly engages in conduct that creates a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury of another person.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I make jokes about death all the time,” the Colonel said. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Night Witches” in the Sky paints a vivid and faithful portrait of the 46th Guards’ experiences at the height of the war—from flaming death in the air to bunches of wildflowers in the cockpit. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He said your time the way people did when they meant your death. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Still, a rough estimate of the time of death can be made, and the Shouns determined that Anna had been deceased between five and seven days. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It is hardly surprising that Tycho, now in his fifties, didn’t make any significant observations here in the short time that remained before his death. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It is distinct, sweet and yeasty, the smell of death, like spoiled bread, damp and swollen, coating walls, nostrils, skin, anything within reach, trying to tag it all. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

"The wolf did his work for him. It were foully done. The Half-hand's death was mine." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I decide to not mention my father’s death and my time in foster care. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So death was still a little way off. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Halliday had prepared a short video message, along with instructions that it be released to the world media at the time of his death. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t bring herself to run away again or to kill him and face her own death. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mistakes were being made all the time, officers being sent to death needlessly. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Seth said, “You know the Danvers don’t trust Baker after he backed Doc Kelly over Calvin’s death.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Neither yours nor any man’s death is needed to consummate the series of my being and accomplish that which must be done, but it requires my own. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though grieving, the women of the 46th Guards didn’t react to Dusya’s death with fear or discouragement. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

No, if the man with the pale eyes feared anything it would be what most people feared—death. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

From the depths of the bedclothes in the corner came a dry-cracked-nasal tone—not a woman’s voice—not a living voice: it was the voice of the grandmother’s death. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

At last she weakened, and he was able to force her back and plead with her to let him talk, swearing to her that Nately’s death had not been his fault. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And I will that all the world wit that I, Sir Gawaine, Knight of the Round Table, sought my death at thy hands— and not through thy deserving, but it was mine own seeking. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would not touch death; therefore, untainted, she brought only health from house to house. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finality, not fairness, had become the new priority in death penalty jurisprudence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When the terrible story of Lucy’s death, and—and all that followed, was done, I lay back in my chair powerless. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Because are you having some kind of neuron death?” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up close, I saw that the engravings on the gates were scenes of death. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The risk and the energy and the danger and the possibility of death, even when what we're doing is a kind of death all in itself. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Died or killed, Will wasn’t sure, because he still didn’t have the right words to explain his father’s death. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Questions about Kennedy’s death abounded: Did the Communists kill Kennedy? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But in death she restored it, and made both eyes larger and thicker-lashed in the bargain. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Is shot to death ten days later in a delaying action guarding the retreat across the Potomac. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On March 26, 1922, less than a month after Stepson’s death, an Osage woman died of a suspected poisoning. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I found nothing there but the certainty, the sure fact of Therem’s death. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The death was ruled a homicide but no one was indicted. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Alec continued to head for the heart of the blazing section of woods, not slowing down, as if his one final goal was to run to a fiery death and end it all. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She quit eating, vowing to starve herself to death. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

It’s her own medal of Saint Christopher—protector o travelers, guardian against storms, holy death, and toothaches. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The thing to me worse than death was the betrayal. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she supposed even an agent of death would have guilty pleasures. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I asked Dr. Jones how her mother had taken Prince’s death, and her voice retreated into an almost-whisper, and Dr. Jones said, “I don’t know that she did.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“They’d torture them to death, trying to find out where I was,” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What is a man’s life but a prelude to his death?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“She most of all,” said Ernest, “requires consolation; she accused herself of having caused the death of my brother, and that made her very wretched. But since the murderer has been discovered—” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That a scythe is merely the instrument of death, but it is your hand that swings me. You and your parents, and everyone else in this world are the wielders of scythes.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Finding nothing, they tried to determine the time of death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Reyna said, “Thanatos is the god of death, the lieutenant of Pluto?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

These restrictions amount to a form of “civic death” and send the unequivocal message that “they” are no longer part of “us.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When Frank yelled, “Fire!” they sailed through the air—a wave of death cutting through the six-armed monsters. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It hurt, but it would not be the death of me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dr. Constantine is of the opinion that death occurred at about 1 a.m.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

How a little Indian boy and girl were lost in a blizzard and had frozen to death. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both as a means of avenging him and of preventing other such deaths . . . yes, and of attracting lost members back into the ranks. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had started on the road that leads down to the realm of death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

One cannot help but suspect that the beleaguered aristocracy of Virginia saw in Hamilton and his beloved commercial elite of the northern cities the American replicas of British bankers who were bleeding them to death. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I didn’t understand how he could choose death just so he could get back to his rose. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Many deaths occurred in the study streams among autumn spawning fish, including brown trout, brook trout, and whitefish. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Audrey chewed a bite of soggy pancake, but I imagined it tasted like gravel to her, the way everything had tasted like gravel to me since Jesse’s death. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I never thought being in seventh grade would mean so many death threats. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“There’s your death wish again. Wanna hang out with the Grievers, have a sandwich, maybe?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It is often said that nature has no disdain, and therefore the natural death lacks the concept of anger, of revenge, of meanness, and that it is even sometimes—shudder—beautiful. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“The sticks disagree. These deaths were not caused by a family spirit.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I was disappointed to miss the regent’s burial, I was inwardly glad that I had reconciled with him before his death. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All specimens sent to the Fish and Wildlife Service for analysis were found to contain insecticides in amounts sufficient to cause their death. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe his lover was already sentenced to death and he was trying to make it easier. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A number of deaths from parathion had occurred in Florida before this regulation was adopted. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Not one of his friends could be with him at the hour of his death; they were all outlaws, fugitives, exiles, or dead. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he preferred the birth and death room to the attic with Dove and Dusty, she had let him stay on. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did that mean the death had occurred there? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In fact, for a while, I kept his death a secret from her. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mozart was devastated when his childhood friend was killed in a boating accident just eight years later, the same year as the death of Mozart’s mother. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“There, now, Minerva,” said Fudge kindly, “Pettigrew died a hero’s death. Eyewitnesses — Muggles, of course, we wiped their memories later — told us how Pettigrew cornered Black. They say he was sobbing, ‘Lily and James, Sirius! Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

A storm of rose petals blew across a blood-streaked sky, as blue as the eyes of death. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Rest, O Knight, proud in victory, proud in death. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Starvation was posited as the most probable cause of death. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gyro had widened; The Great Chain of Being had snapped like so many paper clips strung together by some drooling idiot; death, destruction, anarchy, progress, ambition, and self-improvement were to be Piers' new fate. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took out my notebook, lay across the bed on my stomach and attempted to write—anything to escape the death dance out there in the Mississippi night. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the truth is he’s taking Madame Meursault’s death very hard. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“He saw that the animal did not look at him accusingly. He saw that the animal had been treated with respect while it was alive and that it could have a respectful death.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“You would really shoot my horse because death might be more comfortable?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I preferred the smell of hay and horses to the death stench of the hospital. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he could convict Mhlaba on all four counts with litde evidence, could the death sentence be far behind for those of us against whom the evidence was overwhelming? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said my vows believing that I would love Hamlet until my death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He knew that he would not wake up some time later, after death, and sigh at how simple and foolish his dream had been. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Between life and death, and between physical pleasure and physical pain, there is still a distinction, but that is all. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Her sentence of death was once more commuted to transportation, this time for life. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He had died long ago in Virginia, but his bondage had carried on into his death, so that his spirit was forced to follow the mistress of the manor when she moved north. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

That was Sea Island cotton the slaver had ordered for his rows, but scattered among the seeds were those of violence and death, and that crop grew fast. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But the death of Paul V at first seemed like good news for science. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

How small the difference between victory and defeat, between life and death. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But in her case, neighbors had kept their distance, believing she was destined for an early death and anyone she touched would be forced to accompany her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was still reeling from the assassination of my president and the deaths of my four friends. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You tell him I will hound him even after death! If there is any justice in the Underworld, my soul will haunt him for eternity!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Other observers in Osage County noted that suspicious deaths were routinely, and falsely, attributed to “consumption,” “wasting illness,” or “causes unknown.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The problem was so significant in Illinois that in 2003, Governor George Ryan, a Republican, citing the unreliability of capital punishment, commuted the death sentences of all 167 people on death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Though he was accustomed on the frontier to dealing with violent death, the brutality detailed in the reports was breathtaking. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The cause of death was recorded as “heart failure,” according to documents at the church cemetery where the baby was buried. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it is strange to see his pale, waxy skin, and his limbs stiff with death. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

If this is death, it isn’t so bad. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“If we have to bankroll our own death, I’m coming back as a ghost and suing the Town Gran,” Seven said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Soon it became clear that the Riots were about more than the tragic death of Dr. King. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

How can they say that, when I’ve won a special mention for my essay on Temperance, about drunken men having car accidents and freezing to death in snowstorms because the alcohol dilates their capillaries? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one noticed that the church bells were tolling more often than usual to announce one death, and then another. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

To fly Blue Navy colors in Oxscini would have meant certain death. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was as if he wanted to fight, to punish himself for the old woman’s death. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At 10:00 a.m. the prisoners were taken from their current cells and moved to their "death" cells. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

A sweet death and a gentle one, the kindly man was fond of saying. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The presiding judge upheld the M’Naghten Rule, and the jury gave the state the death penalty it demanded. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they didn’t know what effects any of this would have on humans: Would it cause cellular changes, or even cell death? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She shot me some kind of ghetto death stare, but backed off. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

A few days later, on August 3, the generals at the military tribunal reached a verdict: death for all eight saboteurs. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She dreaded what that meant but concentrated on one thing: she would finally have the opportunity to investigate Clara’s death and discover the secret of her end. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, he told her, it was the way death came: a drifting-away when one’s tasks were accomplished. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made me promise that we wouldn’t tell anybody about Dad’s death because Uncle Myron would claim that she was an unfit parent and seek custody. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I could feel it all around me, that invisible presence, chilly as the first intimation of death, the dusty unblinking eyes of a thousand snakes. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you got bitten, you’d die a grisly death if you didn’t get rabies shots stabbed right into your stomach. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

I even tell Thomas, as we wander the lavish ballroom with its endless banquet tables and chandeliers, that arresting Day has filled the gaping hole Metias’s death left in my life. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

By January 2012, more than seven thousand deaths from cholera had been reported, and thousands of people were hospitalized. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“What do you think? We scared him half to death.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Its last remnants were destroyed soon after Hypatia’s death. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father’s death had proved that fact, and Yakov’s had only reinforced it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A summer calm laid its soothing hand over everything, like death. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The next morning she woke up hoping he’d frozen to death, but instead he was sitting on their front stoop, bruised and cold. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Number five was that he could catch mice with' out squishing them to death. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward he put their crews to death as well, saving only the slaves chained to the oars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t look healthy by any means, but he didn’t look on the verge of death anymore. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was considered very anti-climactic in the Capitol, all those quiet, bloodless deaths. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The popular narrative that emphasizes the deaths of slavery and Jim Crow and celebrates the nation’s “triumph over race” with the election of Barack Obama is dangerously misguided. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But their deaths still deserved the dignity of a prayer here in the wilderness. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She was scared of tiny spiders, but not of plummeting to her death from a set of monkey bars. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The permission was valid from the moment of his death until the day the notice appeared. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure how the neighborhood was going to handle the death of a kid who was raised in front of everyone’s eyes. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Kiowa, after all, had been a close friend, and for years I’ve avoided thinking about his death and my own complicity in it. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Gatsby's death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes' power of correction. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

On this journey, there were none of Shay’s cryptic dues to puzzle through, no brush fires to escape, and no antique Rusty machines descending to scare her to death. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Aunt Florentine and I were good listeners because we were used to death. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When they were discovered, she was interrogated by police until she acknowledged that she couldn't be 100 percent sure the infant hadn't moved before death, even though the premature delivery made viability extremely unlikely. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I am sorry to show you these gruesome bodies, especially with your children present. But then again, all of us here have seen death or even shaken hands with it.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“My mother says you almost froze to death,” she whispers as we stand in line, two by two, waiting for the bell. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And something in me rebelled against that death. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that to have risked the princess’s life was deserving of death. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Wearing the red thread of death” was a terrible phrase, but the mouse didn’t have long to consider its implications, because he was suddenly pushed from behind by the hooded mice. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

During the twentieth century, only 5 per cent of human deaths resulted from human violence—and this in a century that saw the bloodiest wars and most massive genocides in history. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might be gebbeth still, clothed in Skiorh's death, or it might be hidden in the gathering darkness, waiting to seize him and merge its shapelessness with his living flesh. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Once there, many of the men broke down, sobbing, realizing how close we had come to death. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

They have led to illness and death of workers in electrical industries; and more recently, in agriculture, they have been considered a cause of a mysterious and usually fatal disease of cattle. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He had been preparing for a traditional legal career until he came down to work with us one summer and became fascinated by the issues that death penalty cases presented. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You look so white, Hannahleh. Like death. How can we fix that?” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of Ernest’s friends and colleagues pondered that heritage after his death, but perhaps the oddest judgment came from Robert Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I am barreling through white flame and absolute darkness, the nexus between life and death. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even among prisoners on death row, the annual execution rate is only 2 percent—compared with the 7 percent annual chance of dying faced by a member of the Black Gangster Disciple Nation crack gang. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He thought he heard death itself breathing down here, breathing so deeply that no air was left for anyone else. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Yet amidst all that, life has spit in the eye of death. We must find her some shoes.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t notice anything in the Commandant’s office except for her wall of death. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She rushed over to where I stood and began pulling my hand, imploring me to go see my brother who, she said dramatically, was bleeding to death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day he touched the Spirit Bear he had been near death and had completely given up trying to be in control. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But in their grief and at the hour of death, men could turn for compassion to the goddess who sorrowed and the goddess who died. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although there are several memorials to the deaths of these young people in other states, there has been no significant effort on the part of Birmingham and Alabama citizenry to remember these sacrifices appropriately.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As we shall see, there is a certain pattern to the births and deaths of racial caste in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Again the poor man groaned; he looked as if he dared not move; fear, either of death or of something else, appeared almost to paralyse him. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Soviet soldiers involved in this war found themselves in an icy stalemate, freezing and starving to death. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes. An aneurysm can burst, causing a massive stroke and death.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all done elegantly, for it was discovered that she had a substantial death policy. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Thereby protecting the supplies but ensuring the death of the invader. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In Lorraine Hansberry’s Pulitzer Prizewinning work, a black family—the Youngers—clashes over how to use the insurance money paid on the father's recent death. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I visualized a self-appointed jury of twelve people who condemned him to death and were forced by exigencies of the case to be their own executioners. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

C.P.’s father died a few years later, at the age of forty-eight—not an unusually early death by mill standards. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I came home to seek my heir, aware that in doing so I faced death. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I exit Lake Shore—six minutes to go—he's slurring his words and bawling, going on and on about Facebook and the death of polite society and whatever. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

So far as most of them were concerned, Connington had drunk himself to death in Lys after being driven from the company in disgrace for stealing from the war chest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But the Dead come seldom forth and only at times of great unquiet and coming death.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

"No telling. But it's good for us. A death should hold the crowd for a bit. Maybe we'll have time to do something before the Gamemakers decide things have been moving too slowly," I say. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Although we would benefit from his absence, we did not rejoice at his death. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two Baldwin County deputies who had picked him up a week earlier had not been friendly on the trip from death row to the courthouse. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Scholars and investigators who have since looked into the murders believe that the Osage death toll was in the scores, if not the hundreds. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Well, okay, how about this, then? I’m upset that my big sister isn’t going with me to see our mom for the first time since we found her bleeding to death on the floor.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“You must see your sisters and tell them about your mother’s death,” says Auntie Ying. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

On re-direct examination, I asked Ralph to acknowledge once again that his trial testimony was false and that he had knowingly put an innocent man on death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I thought about death a lot, and I didn’t know why. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His mother had died when he was eight, and all he remembered of her or her death was the body lying on the bed. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there was Bigger No. 4, whose only law was death. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He would have drunk himself to death no matter what. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Occasionally the stench of death would fill Helmuth’s nose and demand his attention. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

But for the Osage every death, every apparent act of God, was now in doubt. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Of all the people in your family, whose death would you find the most disturbing, and why?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Their older siblings and aunts would sometimes provide temporary shelter, but the living situation would get disrupted by violence or death, and so Trina would find herself wandering the streets again. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Knowing it would not be fast or easy, and wanting, deserving nothing less, grimly, patiently, he waited for death. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carmen had read about a kind of snake that wrapped itself around its prey, choking it to death. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Eighteen months after his death, we were allowed to start wearing other colors, but nothing too bright. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Dewey had imagined that with the deaths of Smith and Hickock, he would experience a sense of climax, release, of a design justly completed. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Uncle Lee’s death my dad could find humor in almost any situation. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Something had occurred to me when Chiron talked about my mother’s fate, as if he were intentionally avoiding the word death. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Myers's refusal to cooperate got him sent back to death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Citra thought death from such a wound would be instantaneous, but apparently not. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me, Sophia Morales, NBC News. Is it true that this department is responsible for the death of this young man’s father?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Actually, it wasn’t that far, it just seemed that way because as I went looking and finding nothing, I was sure I was going to starve to death. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

That he’d had to stare death in the face to do so only increased the power of the myth that was created that day. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Though following them to my death will, perhaps, be worth something. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

This second witness gave law enforcement officials what they needed to charge Walter McMillian with capital murder in the shooting death of Ronda Morrison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The state made a plea offer of twenty years, but it was never adequately communicated to Mr. Dill, so he went to trial, was convicted, and was sentenced to death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“My mother died when I was three, my old man drank himself to death, and,” he paused and looked towards the church which already loomed ahead of us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on each stone, the date of death was the same as the date of birth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, for all of Grant’s determination, the North appeared to be no nearer victory than it had been before the fury and waves of death had begun the month before. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry laid down his quill too, having just finished predicting his own death by decapitation. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

All of England mourned the death of Captain Scott. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The rabbit’s flutter of death was finished when they bent over to examine their victim. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But three subsequent United States Supreme Court decisions had put strict limits on the sentences that juveniles can receive, eliminating death sentences and many sentences of life without the possibility of parole, sometimes called LWOP. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And through all this his mother’s eyes were on him; her hand, like fiery tongs, gripped the lukewarm ember of his heart; and caused him to feel, at the thought of death, another, colder terror. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

That extra moment it takes to place our unfamiliar scent means their death. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Leading that gentle old lamb to his death! And that unnatural cat egging him on, no doubt. Not that I ever had any favorites, but...” The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two Deckers on one bus? Do you have a death wish? Mateo, those odds are insane. That thing could topple over.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Sinking into a simmering sea!” she sang happily, and I could hear these suns sizzling and crackling in death. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years, the only evidence Morrie had of his mother was the telegram announcing her death. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But nothing had prepared me for the death march. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He was beaten to death at the club. We saw it. The police, remember? They beat him over the head.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His death was the first of the disasters which fell upon the gods. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until Nancy’s death he had not appreciated Sue, never felt altogether comfortable with her. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I know mine wouldn't. She treats the mothers and fathers just the same as the children and they're all scared to death of her. I'll be seeing you some time, you two." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The hospital social worker told me that they would arrange home health and hospice care, which was sad but dramatically better than what he feared when he was on Alabama's death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“That’s what it was like, if you want to know. The two of them looked as black as—as black as death standing up there with this fire burning all around them.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is that which condemns the tragic character to his walking death. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was depressed and terrified when they took him to death row before trial before being convicted of any crime, and the weeks became months. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

How fearfully he watched death creep over her from the bottom up. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1796, he had begun to draft his last will and testament, in which he eventually made elaborate provisions to assure that all his slaves would be freed upon the death of his wife. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Almost no investigation was done into the poor medical care the victim had received, care that constituted the actual cause of death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer’s recollection of his own reaction has been oft repeated; he claimed that a verse from the Sanskrit Bhagavad Gita leaped into his mind: “ ‘Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.’ Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

At just the time that Henry Cavendish was completing his experiments in London, four hundred miles away in Edinburgh another kind of concluding moment was about to take place with the death of James Hutton. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Halley later claimed that he had only been tactful to Hevelius’s face, not wanting to hasten, the death of ‘an old peevish Gentleman’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Some of the Folk are so still I worry that they have debauched themselves into death. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“And you up there? I come from a mining town. Since when do miners condemn other miners to that kind of death, and then stand by to kill whoever manages to crawl from the rubble?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Now I went on through the Sinoth Valley, through the evening of his death, into the cold country that lies beyond fear. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He was put to death twelvefold by a jury of scythes, then revived each time. After the twelfth revival, he was on probation for a year.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

With Hector dead, Achilles knew, as his mother had told him, that his own death was near. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put down that yellow skip and Jay flashes me the glare of death. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then I usually read from Job; two passages, in the seventh and fourteenth chapters, where Job speaks of no life after death. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the threat of death was much closer to me than somewhere in Louisiana. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had laughed before today—Walter's sense of humor hadn't failed him despite his six years on death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then gradually I realize that to crawl in the right direction is a matter of life or death. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been said that her singing “seemed to come from the emotional center of each of us,” and even after her death, her voice could not be stilled. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“For I am not afraid. With my husband’s death, I have nothing left to fear. You are the bravest of all of us, truly.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The clinging, overpowering conviction of death spread steadily with the continuing rainfall, soaking mordantly into each man’s ailing countenance like the corrosive blot of some crawling disease. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I finally found out the truth about his death. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course Mother will be as obstinate about her death as she has been about every detail of her life. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t just about giving Yakov a voice anymore or shedding light on the incompetence and indifference that his death had revealed to me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And the infant who I should have called brother had been strangled to death with the noose of his own umbilical. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The official death toll of the Osage Reign of Terror had climbed to at least twenty-four members of the tribe. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The contents of Atzerodt’s room at the Kirkwood, plus Booth’s “Sam” letter, suggested that the vice president had also been marked for death. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know when I say the words that this will be the life or death of me, what happens now. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As far as I can tell, the Land of Promise is their euphemism for death, although they do not admit it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But what had I gained in devising my own death and escaping from Elsinore? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

"I'd keep both hands on the reins, or this black beast of yours is like to fling us both off and kick us to death." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On account of these deaths, Kilanga’s gleeful children would live through another season. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A somewhat more immediate influence was Aristotle himself, whose death in 322 happened to coincide with Ptolemy’s accession to the governorship of Egypt. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

She had saved him from certain death, and then he had saved her. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes on the sight, sank down in the dark, ready for death, knew it was coming, but it did not come. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After the sleep of death, we waken eternally,” Hamlet continued as if I had not spoken. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

"I think I understand. You were watching a death —" I dropped my fork. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought dead bodies made you squeamish, like when we found that old beggar who froze to death.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then she thought about the other lines of the prophecy: The twins snuff out the angel’s breath, who holds the keys to endless death. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Both my mom and dad were extremely shaken by the death threat, even though it had amounted to nothing in the end. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The assassin wasn't told of his victim’s death that Monday night. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The truth is I’m scared to death of you.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The compounds were often small, with few guards and not much fencing, but during their brief stays inside, many North Koreans said they routinely witnessed executions and deaths from torture and starvation. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The outcome had resulted in the hanging deaths of one woman and seven men for conspiring with assassin John Wilkes Booth in Lincoln's death. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“I need birth dates, death dates, marriage dates...Facts, Comfort, not opinions. If everybody reported the news with an opinion, who could we believe?” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Antietam had been the baptismal battle for the young schoolteacher, and the letter to Jenny reflected the agony of a man new to the scenes of death and suffering. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea, that by Therese's death I am forgiven, comes over me like the tide, lifting me with its gentle force and bearing me toward a solid shore. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Hazel wanted to tell her no, to tell her to stop wondering at phantoms, because she was freezing to death and maybe starving, and they needed to find someone who could help her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

‘Name him not!’ said Gandalf, and for a moment it seemed that a cloud of pain passed over his face, and he sat silent, looking old as death. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

If put into an enclosure, they are likely to panic, and either die of shock or batter themselves to death against the fence in their attempts to escape. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

If they saw me, if they heard what I was about to ask, Moonface would beat me to death. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank God for life,” True Belle said, “and thank life for death.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only by staying awake could I keep death from visiting this house again. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The smell of death had been festering in the afternoon heat, and now it was unbearable. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Next to the goat was the body of a young man, his face as dull in death as it must have been in life. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

They should have been organizing an army, not Nazi death trains. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In many parts of the world the fatality rate from parathion is startling: 100 fatal cases in India and 67 in Syria in 1958, and an average of 336 deaths per year in Japan. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Despite the deaths of recent years, only two of the sixteen members of Williams’s party wore safety helmets or other protective gear. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He's pulled me from death so many times. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Pasiphaë laughed with delight, knowing that any moment they would be crushed or bitten to death in a pit of snakes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Some physicians said there was nothing inevitable about Garfield's death from the bullet wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The first time I saw Morrie on “Nightline,” I wondered what regrets he had once he knew his death was imminent. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look,” I giggled, crawling out of the hole, “I’m bleeding to death.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Do I hand Dray over to the detective even though he wasn’t responsible for the girl’s death? American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Although many abhorred the killings, others favored these deaths, especially in cases of severely mentally ill or disabled children. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We spent a good bit of time together, and Walter would occasionally share with me that he was still troubled by the cases of the men he’d left behind on death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was either an amazing feat of stubbornness or naiveté, I thought, for someone who had seen so much death and suffering to still believe so unconditionally that everyone was as stand-up as he was. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Sent to Mira Hancock, to be opened in the event of my death. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

These four have not been together in one place since the death of the other. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

By July 1921, the justice of the peace had closed his inquiries, stating that Anna Brown’s death had come at “the hands of parties unknown”—the same finding as delivered in the Whitehorn inquest. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“My mom used to tell me that death is like a parking lot,” whispered Mini. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I came home from practice and the boys were on the landing, scared to death.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t like Angel Yanagihara, who stung a mouse, then watched as it got closer and closer to death. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Soon after her brothers’ deaths, the restaurant where Lourdes works is raided by immigration agents. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Without the threat of death hanging over us, we finally have the luxury to melt into the music. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The chariot was inlaid with obsidian and gold, decorated with scenes of painful death. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

"Remember, Iris is a tumbler; he might have to drive a few days to get it. And I'm guessing it's hard to control a rover when you're literally starving to death." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the Court’s opinion was released, however, it became clear the case was about much more than the death penalty. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Gods, I’m exhausted. There’s nothing like the certain knowledge of your own death to tucker you out.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Day is just a criminal on death row. His words shouldn’t matter to a girl of your standing.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Continued litigation about lethal injection protocols and other questions about the reliability of the death penalty slowed the execution rate in Alabama dramatically. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z