| 单词 | living death |
| 例句 | They were zombies, worked and starved into a living death by our captors. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z They were afraid of the living death that awaited them in the rice fields, on the great cotton plantations, the sugar plantations, in the deep South—and so ran away. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The feeling was of living death—or worse, of never having been fully alive and knowing. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Some noninvasive treatments and gentler medications may allow a life with dignity, even if a shorter one, and avert the suffering and purgatory of a living death. Review | The surprising comfort of a new book about death 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z The intense glamour and glory of film success makes failure, or just anything short of success, or indeed the memory of former success, feel like a living death. Cannes 2013: Seduced and Abandoned - first look review 2013-05-19T14:37:26Z She is an embodiment of the unquenchable, unreasoning life force, and also its uselessness against the fates that resign us all to oblivion in the end, and sometimes a living death well before it. Review: ‘Happy Days,’ an Unsettling Glimpse Into the Existential Abyss 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Now we know why sitting in a downtown theater can feel like living death. | 'Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead': Off Broadway Vampires 2010-06-04T00:33:00Z We used a fixed camera with a tripod, and pan shots, symbolizing, in a way death, or rather the living death that this woman is experiencing. Unsettling "Madre" plays with perception of madness to examine a woman "clinging to the impossible" 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z The beautiful queen, whom Marie adores, frames this assignment as a great honor, but the young woman knows she’s “being thrown away like rubbish . . . sent into her living death alone.” Review | In Lauren Groff’s hands, the tale of a medieval nunnery is must-read fiction 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Mr. McPherson, one of the finest writers of his generation, specializes in tales that make the supernatural seem entirely natural and that meditate upon how people can so easily slide into a living death. Review: In ‘The Weir,’ Things Go Bump in the Night, at the Pub 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z There was also something poignant about Baylock’s rapid aging and eventual “living death.” Beyond “The Man Who Fell to Earth”: Coming of age with David Bowie’s films 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Havana is at home, receiving the massage, and under the masseuse’s gentle influence her face seems to become a living death mask. David Cronenberg’s Horror Portrait of Hollywood 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The question, as she puts it, is when she will “cross from being alive to the living death of madness — this is, when people will rightly say ‘Gerda is no longer Gerda.’” In ‘Memory’s Last Breath,’ Remembering Life, Before It’s Too Late 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z For this, the sin of renunciation, he is condemned to a living death not unlike that of his correspondent, removed from, and with no hope of returning to, the world. In 'Dinner at the Center of the Earth,' Nathan Englander deepens and expands what he does so well 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z David has suffered his own living death, disgrace brought upon by the Rosenberg name by a food-poisoning scandal that has all but scuppered his catering business. Theater Review: At the National Theatre in London, Other People's Pain 2011-05-03T13:00:07Z When we meet Scrooge, he is enduring a kind of living death. Season's readings: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 2010-12-07T12:16:00Z What he feared particularly was evidently the living death of senility and/or physical helplessness. David Lodge: rereading Anthony Trollope 2012-12-14T22:55:04Z Before surrendering to his living death, he forms an unusual friendship with Luly, the manager of the 24-hour gym where he works as a night guard. The Carpetbagger: At Sundance, a Lot of James Franco and Other Experiments 2012-11-29T21:00:40Z But what’s astonishing about “Spring Storm” is its depiction of the living deaths suffered by pretty much everyone on that stage. Review: The Young and Ever Restless Tennessee Williams 2010-04-20T12:41:00Z She says for people with loved ones inside a cult, "it's like a living death" - partly because attempts to criticise the group often backfire, leaving them unsure how to act. Inside the life coaching cult that takes over lives 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Some people think comas are easy to recover from or—conversely—a living death. Some People Who Appear to Be in a Coma May Actually Be Conscious 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z “In the end I realize there is the possibility facing three life sentences, which could become a living death for me,” wrote Hernández, who left office in January at the conclusion of his second term. Honduras court seizes ex-president’s properties 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z And “Piranha” wasn’t just one shark, it was hundreds, nay, thousands of genetically mutated fish that, the trailer promised, could “churn quiet streams into rivers of living death.” From 'Star Wars' to 'Independence Day,' an excellent adventure down summer-movie memory lane 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z "It would be like a living death" to be sent back to the island, he said. Hours after mass escape, migrants chant for food, freedom 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Things that most people learn to put up with strike Harry Haller as the fetters of a living death: Hermann Hesse’s Arrested Development 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Slaves in the Louisiana sugar cane world lived what the former slave and civil rights activist Frederick Douglass termed a “life of living death.” Opinion | A Fate Worse Than Slavery, Unearthed in Sugar Land 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z But one character, the protagonist of “Novel 11, Book 18,” does something more than accept his living death. Marginal Men Take Center Stage in the Novels of Dag Solstad 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Douglass thought this a proof of the powers of resistance, but he also knew that such resistance usually brought instant death or else shipment down to the plantations of the Deep South—a living death. The Prophetic Pragmatism of Frederick Douglass 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z He survived, but it turned out to be a living death. Ian Brady letters: Inside the mind of the Moors Murderer - BBC News 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Being unable to tell your story is a living death, and sometimes a literal one. Silence and powerlessness go hand in hand – women’s voices must be heard | Rebecca Solnit 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z “Frankie Teardrop” was like a blues parable without God to hope for: parenthood as living death, city life as mind-breaking panic. Suicide's Alan Vega was one of rock's greatest antagonists 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Now, there’s a worse option: a living death. Queen Rania: The Syrian refugees I met are experiencing something worse than death 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z "A living death," added Jason Black, who left the church the same year. Ex-FLDS members remember happy community before Warren Jeffs used children to lead sect astray 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z But with more pills easily available from friends, he quickly began spending hours in a state that he now sees as tantamount to living death. Inside alternate universe America's ban on sleep 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z They are in a living death behind bars. Inside Syria’s Rape Nightmare 2013-03-10T08:45:00Z Falling into this mindset is a form of living death. You're Not a Zombie: 6 Ways to Shake Up Your Sales Day 2012-10-11T14:32:35Z My visceral reaction: to become a torturer was its own form of living death. Whistle-blowing US torture 2012-09-11T14:38:00Z Now lasting servitude’s my lot, My birth contemn’d, my speed forgot; Doom’d am I, for my pride, to bear A living death from year to year. Moores Fables for the Female Sex 2012-04-24T02:00:20.600Z In the gallery, shut out from the outside world, from the pure air of the mountains and the sunlight, existence was a living death. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z It was a living death that was being faced from day to day. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Land, sea, church, people, throne,—all, all are nought, I live a living death, and call it royalty. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z The person, “saved from a living death,” stood at the “doctor’s” side to corroborate the story, while his voluptuous wife was kept busy handing out the magical remedy and “pursing the ducats” given in return. Quacks and Grafters 2012-02-23T03:00:40.650Z Mind you, it is intensely beautiful, intensely soothing, intensely interesting if you can read it and you like it, but life for a man who cannot and does not is a living death. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Taxi driver, Mohammad Sherbini I was happy when Mubarak stepped down because Egypt was in a state of "living death", for thirty years we were under occupation. Egyptians fear for the future 2012-02-10T12:25:31Z The prison itself is so dark and bare that to stay therein was a living death. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z May they walk in living death, who poisoned Owen Roe. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.223Z Even then it will be a living death for her, poor angel! Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z They have come for me—come to drag me back to a living death!” Frank Merriwell's Alarm Doing His Best 2011-12-30T03:00:28.567Z They were no longer the adornment of the bride but the offering to one who was to suffer a living death. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z You may strike us dead; we may as well be dead as living the sort of life with which we are familiar; it is a living death. A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z It is a moot question whether it is not better to hang outright rather than endure a living death within the four walls of a gaol. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z She, poor girl, withers like a lily; she lives for her children, but it is a living death. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z The wonder is, that instead of living on as I did—though life has been in reality but a living death—I did not become insane, and wander raving through the woods and forests. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z The view you had that night of the dark valley of a living death, and your escape from it, has lifted you into a purity undreamt of by the average woman. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z For answer, the voice to which he looked for guidance, declared: 'Mixture of everything; living death; loss and gain; infidelity and constancy; disasters and happiness.' The Strange Story Book 2011-09-15T02:00:13.747Z But what war-losses could compare with the losses inflicted by the living death of Bolshevism? The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z It must either be a dying life or a living death. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Yet, Eleanor, his conduct is a living death to me—it is worse than all that I have suffered. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z Dear Daddy is enduring a living death—everything is changed—we are professional caterers—working women—you will not begin to comprehend that and no doubt it shocks you. Those Dale Girls 2011-09-05T02:00:18.917Z Or note what the heart suffers till it resigns itself to its living death? Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z If he doesn't recover, his is a living death. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z He could not bear the load of a living death. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z He was looking down the long vista of years at a living death ten thousand times worse than death, at a life from which every human ambition, every hope, every natural spring had been erased. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z There she lay in a kind of living death, uttering not a sound, large-eyed and white-faced, wearing the expression of a helpless agony. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z Oh! sweet child of humanity; here you sit imprisoned and bemoaning your living death between cloister walls and among pale disfigured faces. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z "Let us not talk of them, but rather of the brave man who rescued you in the very nick of time from a living death." Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III 2011-07-16T02:00:13.547Z He toiled as a slave long years in living death, before there was even a partial amelioration of his sufferings. Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters 2011-07-10T02:00:16.790Z At present the mode of life—rather the living death—to which he felt himself condemned seemed intolerable. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z Her tyrant would give her no release; and she succumbed to her living death once more. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z This living death prolonged for years—why not end it now? The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z Then a period of brief, contraband happiness, and long years of a kind of living death; the fetter falls off and she is free, and then the cup of life is full—full to overflowing. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z If it was decreed that he should die, he would die; if he was doomed to a living death in prison, nothing that he could do would avert his fate. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z Perhaps he would awake later to the full horror of his living death. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z Ay, he lived, of that living death, which is worse than the true. Rachel Gray 2011-05-20T02:00:39.547Z Left to their own unprejudiced reason, to their own clear eyes and rapid and just conclusions, they would not choose, the greatest of all evils,—a living death. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z It seemed to be worse than death itself; it was a living death; it was life in the arms of death; it was burial in an open grave. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z It seemed to be worse than death itself; it was a living death; it was burial in an open grave. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z It was only her intense, unselfish love for her brother which induced her to threaten him and herself with a separation which would be, she felt, to her a living death. The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville 2011-03-31T02:00:19.850Z "Abe, I will confide in you, tell you a secret, which if disclosed means ruin to us all, and a living death to him." Fast as the Wind A Novel 2011-03-22T02:00:19.407Z Bowed down by persecution, his life by illness made a living death, he wavered not, nor ceased from his labours. Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies Volume I 2011-03-12T03:00:27.327Z Consent!" she repeated, fixing her wild eyes on his frightened face; "yes, I consent to the living death of a marriage with you. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z In sooth, Meg, the time has been when methought, how sweet ye living death of the cloister! Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z Their object is simply this, to drag you from my arms, to achieve which they will even subject you to a living death. Under a Charm, Vol. III. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-14T03:00:37.767Z Death to the mother would have been a willing sacrifice, could it have saved her child from the living death that she had suffered. The Home Mission 2011-02-12T03:00:30.217Z And so the years went by, over-brooded by this shadow of living death. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z An inarticulate cry came from the white lips, while the helpless form strove to arouse itself from the living death of palsy. A Hero of Ticonderoga 2011-01-27T03:00:45.450Z Death was better than having to waste away in a living death, doomed to eternal imprisonment. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z So he put off the last and toughest shackle of King Fear—the living death. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z “Nay, thou’rt not, and thou’lt be worse if I let thee live, and if thou survives that poor lass will lead a living death.” The Parson O' Dumford Thou seest him, once the noblest of his species, yet, now, the shadow and vapour of a man,—a wreck of reason,—a living death,—for his mind hath left him. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico Thenceforth, till Silas Toombs sank from his living death to eternal sleep not long after this, his stepson gave him thoughtful and kindly care. A Hero of Ticonderoga 2011-01-27T03:00:45.450Z Such a sentence is not banishment as the world understands it; it is a living death! To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 To her, Bellingham was living death, the triumph of desire which rends itself, the very essence of tragedy. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Suffering the anguish of a living death in one of the worst prisons in the United States, he sought comfort in the thought that he was a revolutionist and not a would-be murderer. Emma Goldman Biographical Sketch She had escaped from a life of misery that had been to her a living death, and her whole being was in consequence radiant with happiness; this was reflected in her playing. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance "Not so, my son," replied Primitius, "we believe with the blessed Paul—that as soon as the soul passes from earth's living death, it enters into the undying life and unfading bliss of heaven." Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs She has no right to be happy; she who by such treachery condemned you to a living death. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 In the convent, shut out from the world, a living death--there shall you wait until they bear you to the grave. On the Heights A Novel Every minute of the day and night, for three long, weary weeks, that had seemed like years, Paula had prayed for deliverance from what was little better than a living death. John Marsh's Millions This new misunderstanding would certainly add to her discomfort and perhaps lessen her chances of escaping from this worst of horrors—a living death! By Right of Conquest A Novel Years passed on in this cheerless manner—this living death. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. To the impotent man, conscious of his living death, Christ offered a life that healed and strengthened—healed by strengthening. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I What a glorious contrast to the grave-like stillness of the convent,—to the living death of a poor nun's existence! Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience This is paradise compared to Austrian, Spanish, German, and Italian prisons, where the wretched dungeon existence is only a living death. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia My life has been a living death to me for some years. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 I still can't believe that any human being could induce such a state of catalepsy, or living death, or whatever you want to call it, in other human beings. Mask of Death The first news was terrible; the second—death; black, hopeless, living death. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War Life without him would be a living death. The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn It is only a Prometheus whom the gods bind fast to a rock, only a Juliet who will venture into a living death for her Romeo. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" A living death he lay in as those tedious months went by. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Ten Christmas stories You've saved us from bankruptcy and saved Lord knows how many people from a living death from that time-business you tried to explain to us. Mask of Death I could not have endured this living death much longer.” 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War Meanwhile midsummer returned--and Halfred lived a life which was as a living death. Saga of Halfred the Sigskald A Northern Tale of the Tenth Century But "cold suttee," as some have called the living death which widows suffer from social customs, is still maintained. Oriental Women At last despair of winning me compelled Him to the oath he swore: He would not kill, But take me living and would make my life A living death. Idyllic Monologues Old and New World Verses What kind of a life will you lead cooped up on this hillside farm as the years go by?—a living death, only think of it! Checkers A Hard-luck Story Anything, I cried to myself, to escape from this rock, this living death! A Monk of Cruta And our girls ... well, I think—I think they'd prefer anything to the living death in store for them—the rotting away of their lives in some infested alien jungle. The Women-Stealers of Thrayx The lepers' hut of old was no such living death of isolation as surrounds an Island girl who has smirched her good name. An Isle in the Water While we are in this world we must live its life; a living death is unendurable. Music: An Art and a Language An abrupt chill went over Dixon's heart at the thought of Ruth Lawton's vivid Titian-haired beauty being forever stilled in the grip of that eery living death. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 And the women—the women were, if possible, ranker—feebly pulsating, feebly throbbing, foully stinking, rotten, living deaths. Byways of Ghost-Land Not until that moment did Kate realize what interpretation the world might put upon her act of public loyalty to the man who had gone for her sake into a living death. Kildares of Storm The brief instant Claire had been in his arms had made him feel that his life was intolerable without her, and that blindness was the curse of a double living death. Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author It is for some time a living death. Letters of Madam Guyon Wherever the green moon shone, every living creature succumbed with ghastly swiftness to the condition of living death that you have seen. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 To him, the ever glorious and luminous Israel Baal Shem, the one true Master of the Name, I owe my redemption from a living death. Dreamers of the Ghetto It was a living death that she was condemned to die. Diana During this time her condition was but a living death, though she was physically well. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 Perchance, even yet, we should awake some fellow-creature from the nameless sleep in the woods whose beauty veiled the living death. The House Under the Sea A Romance Condemn me not to the living death of a convent—away from him. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main It would be interesting to know their story—what it is that brings these daughters of a brighter world here into this valley of the living death. Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo At the tribunal in Seville alone it is said that in thirty-six years four thousand victims were consigned to the flames, besides the thousands more who endured living deaths by torture, mutilation, and nameless sufferings. A Short History of Spain The envelope had not been broken: old Kapus hadn't had time to read his letter, the last which he had received before living death encompassed him. A Bride of the Plains Not to drink was suicide, and to drink was living death! The River Prophet When you suffer in that living death for which they design you, remember with every lingering breath of anguish that it was I who brought you there! Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main Indeed he used to speak of it as "a living death." General Gordon A Christian Hero What she had heard about a woman's lot among the Muslims sounded like a living death. The Saracen: The Holy War To be forever exiled from Constantinople would be a living death. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Has not mine been a living death, a hideous grave, for these four years?” Not Like Other Girls He, Alban Kennedy, had been chosen as their instrument—he had been sent to Poland to condemn this little friend of the dreadful years to the living death in a Russian prison. Aladdin of London or, Lodestar "Madame," I answered, "Isobel is meant for life—not a living death." The Master Mummer When we contrast the condition of the most fortunate women at the North, with the living death colored men endure everywhere, there seems to be a selfishness in our present position. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II He would go back to the living death of being afraid to show his face beyond the bounds of Gobignon, the only place in the world where he was known and respected. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Later a second letter would bear her the sentence of a living death. The Art of Disappearing Yet one can well hesitate to pronounce the word that condemns a fellow man to that living death. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton ‘Out of all the thousands she has slain I am the only one who has escaped, though why she spared me only to condemn me to this living death I cannot guess.’ The Olive Fairy Book And thus they are subjected to all the evils of physical inability—the sufferings of living death, in consequence of an erroneous education. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes The punishment for that is death; not merely the death of the body, but everlasting separation from God and His love and His favour; that is death; living death. The End of a Coil They knew the fate of conquered Ionia: for the men only merciful death, for the women the living death of the Persian harems and indignities words may not utter. A Victor of Salamis He was to breathe, indeed, for fifteen years more, but only in a sort of living death. Raleigh More than once she had heard M. de Crillon talk—and very unconcernedly too—of the living death of those who unhappily became the victims of a lettre de cachet. The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France Passing Louvain, Barty shook his fist at the Catholic University and its scientific priestly professors, who condemned one so lightly to a living death. The Martian Hung between the infinitely great and the infinitely little, frozen by the mockery of two eternities, this "quintessence of dust" which is ourselves, cries aloud to be delivered from the body of its living death. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations The life of the man is a living death. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say How many scores of young women have by these means been inveigled into a foreign land, to find themselves hopelessly enslaved into a life which is worse than a living death. Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade For he shuddered to think of the living death to which the selfishness of her miserly, ambitious father intended condemning Gerty. As We Sweep Through The Deep Better the end at once than after a few months’ or years’ living death, confined among other miserables like myself. Witness to the Deed Your clutch is on his life, and you cause him to die daily a living death; and still he knows you not. The Scarlet Letter All through the summer the coyotes shunned the specter of living death that plodded silently up and down the valleys and the ridges. The Yellow Horde She must go to Portsmouth;—which she knew was tantamount to a living death. An Old Man's Love Strange power of love, that thus can give A dying life and living death! Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote I cheerfully assisted in the preparations, for to meet some whaling vessel was my only hope of rescue from surroundings that made existence a living death. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch The leprosy gnaws the flesh off a man's bones, and joints and limbs drop off—he is a living death. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John "His life, for the last two months, has been a living death," replied the physician, kindly. Fairy Fingers A Novel After six months of living death in this trap, the house was secretly undermined and fell with the prisoners, only five of whom escaped injury or death. The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself You have seen The whole world's vanities; you have come to know That in this world's illusion is no power Whose love is refuge: even the living death Of cold Nirvana frights you. Mr. Faust You never sent me word in my living death. Still Jim We should have been saved—those left of us—from a living death that lasted for many years. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess Where life is, there is He; and though it be but the life of death—the living death of eternal torment—He is the principle of it. Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) That destruction cannot quite destroy it, but shall be an everlasting destruction and living death. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning A guilty conscience only means a living death. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly "I think I shall enjoy the agony—anything but this living death." There was a King in Egypt While, if you were to die, dear wife, life would be a living death, and the world a sepulchre to me!” Cruel As The Grave "The chance to save him from—from imprisonment—from a living death—" "Has he been taken?" Flamsted quarries But there is a worse death after this, a living death, in respect of which simple death would be chosen rather. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning For years he had been but in a living death. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II Better far be burned at the stake of Public Opinion than die the living death of Parasitism. Natural Law in the Spiritual World Sir, out of the bitter cup of misery I have drunk from my sixteenth year—ten long years, and the sweetest thought is that which takes away my living death. The History of Tasmania , Volume II If I am condemned to live longer it is a living death. Mary Wollstonecraft Horror, like living death, paralyzes the old man. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Hundreds of these were sent to the living death in the hulks. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 For the last six months my life has been a living death. A Master of Mysteries To remain hidden in shunned districts, among moral and social lepers, would be living death. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 God of heaven, save thy child from this living death! Mary Wollstonecraft He suffered, not for having outraged Heaven, but for having outraged his own conscience an agony of self-humiliation which must be to him a living death. Olive A Novel Thus Christophe, if he pleased, could send a message of welcome to his visitors, and drop them to a living death with the words of hospitality on his lips. Plotting in Pirate Seas He fell down struck by that living death—that worse than death, of old age—paralysis. Agatha's Husband A Novel It was bad enough to be a cow milker, but to be a sheep herder was living death. The Eagle's Heart It seems to me that life is no life, but living death, without that freedom! The Armourer's Prentices To look back is to be stiffened into a living death; only with faces set forward are we safe and well. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. So do I. But he shall not die in a second, as his victim did, I would prolong his agonies for years, if every hour was like a living death; a speechless misery. Wild Bill's Last Trail The tears came faster now under the memory of the kindness of her chance acquaintance on the day—it seemed months ago—that she had left the world and entered upon this living death. In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date Many met a harder fate—a living death in the noisome prisons of the unbelievers. Legends of the Rhine And I,—I knew that my father had robbed my husband in the vilest, most insidious manner; that he had drawn upon himself the awful doom of a forger, a dungeon home, a living death. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Not always have the Reformers been fortunate in their takings off—many have lingered out lengthening, living deaths in walled-up cells. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians They murdered, tortured, burnt alive, and condemned to a living death as slaves every native race they met. Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas They would take Joe from me; it would hurry my mother to her grave; it would be a living death. Dixie Hart By what condition, nature, or fell chance, In living death, dead life I live? The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem Shall it be a living death for me, and deliverance and safety and honor for you all? Cobwebs and Cables However far the millions of bright spirits who have died a living death have fallen, their fall has been no farther than this man's. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers I could not bring myself to the point of sending Dorgan, guilty as he doubtless was, back to the living death of the "long-termer." Branded What is to me Peace or good fame, away from all of these, But living death? The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems This, then, is how he is dead alive, or living dying; whence he says, "In a living death a dead life I live." The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem Only his quickness saved him from the living death held in the fangs of a rattlesnake that had evidently just crawled from the black muzzle of the gun. At War with Pontiac The Totem of the Bear Then "Man lives a life half dead, a living death, Himself his sepulchre, a moving grave." The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life To them the entry of the British was a relief from a living death, as almost all were captives taken in war, or in the Dervish raids upon quiet villages. With Kitchener in the Soudan A Story of Atbara and Omdurman And he goes on day by day, month by month, year in year out, enduring a living death without a word—for your sake. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron My senses loathe their living death— The coffined garb the city wears! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 You deliberately chose the living death to the betrayal of your faith. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis But, my dear uncle, saints are sometimes ambiguous, and there is something that resembles a living death, a prospect too horrible to dwell upon, yet dreadfully near. Dr. Dumany's Wife It is a light green liquid tasting like bitter apples; and once each week for six months it must be drunk or else … the living death comes. The Golden Scorpion Nevertheless, he often thought of her, for she was inextricably associated with the unspeakable trouble of his life, his brother's living death. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron It is in truth a living death; and when the excruciating torment is gone, it leaves an almost worse legacy behind it—inability to move. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator From that time on the scholar endured a living death. The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict Is not such a state a living death? Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc. Death is a vast portal, an high road to life: let us hasten to pass; let us exist no more in this living death, but die that we may live! The Last Man At the worst it means death; at the best, little more than a living death. The Way of the Wild For living death is upon him, And the walls of his tomb close over, Yet will not in mercy fall on him. The Days of Mohammed It was like a living death; he was a close prisoner, and never a word reached him that any of his friends were concerning themselves with his miserable fate. The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood The materialist and the heretic, whose existence, Dante holds, was only a living death, are confined in blazing tombs. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 Many living deaths have I borne for thee, O Raymond, and now I expire, thy victim!—By my death I purchase thee— lo! the instruments of war, fire, the plague are my servitors. The Last Man A strong feeling of resentment rose up in Dane's heart against his father who had submitted so noble a woman to such a living death. The King's Arrow A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists Poor Heine has lived a sort of living death for years, quite deprived of his limbs, and suffering tortures to boot, I understand. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II It is better to suffer this living death, than a living martyrdom. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution Would it not hurt you a little to feel that you had sent me to a sort of living death from which I could never come back to life? Marietta A Maid of Venice Are men indeed such things? and are the best More subject to this evil than the rest, To drivel out whole years of idiot breath, And sit the monuments of living death? The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827 The life contemplative and peripatetic would literally bore me into a living death. Waste A Tragedy, In Four Acts I want to save you from worse than death—yea, from a living death. Inez A Tale of the Alamo My life has been a living death ever since. Jess of the Rebel Trail My life will be one long, living death, and I shall always want to shriek out the dreadful thing which father says I must keep! Bessie's Fortune A Novel Insensible, deaf, and blind, in the stupor of a living death, he lay there, literally realizing that most bitterly significant eastern malediction, "May you eat dirt." McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader He was deserted then, hurled down into hell to die a living death. The Keeper of the Door Accursed be the power that could doom a woman to a living death! The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill Mysticism enjoins a dying life, not a living death. Christian Mysticism She retorts in a powerful description of the love with which he once inspired her, of the living death in which she has been expiating her mistake. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Not slain for me whom doubly he hath slain, In living death, more bitter than of old My sister's? The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse "I shouldn't feel no very great call to give him up to the living death of an asylum, if he hove in here some night." The Red Redmaynes May they walk in living death, who poisoned Owen Roe! Mount Music Roughly speaking, we spend three hours of this living death every year. Mince Pie But the body may be ‘sown in weakness,’ and in weakness raised; it may be ‘sown in dishonour’ and in dishonour raised; it may be sown dead, and raised a living death. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Better that he should pass out now than know the horror of a living death through all the years to come. Kindred of the Dust A little while ago he had been hard, fierce, angry, cruel, threatening her with a living death that had filled her with horror. In the Palace of the King A Love Story of Old Madrid But the young gambler is not in the least interested in that sort of a life, which appears to him to be a kind of living death, and such entreaty does not move him. Self-Development and the Way to Power But there was one who, night and day, pondered in her mind the best way of saving Anna from the living death to which she would surely awake, when it was too late. 'Lena Rivers Here we live a living death; there we shall live indeed; and that will be the crown, not only in regard to physical, but in regard to spiritual, powers and consciousness. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) And for this, and for what I know about its enemies, I stand here in this cell and may yet go to a living death. The Air Trust With the living death of Takeshi, there was no male heir. Kimono And the paths of glory lead not to the grave but to a living death in the consciousness of guilt and the remorse for misdeeds. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes We must wear this weight of living death till that good Lord that makes such laws shall send us death in mercy. Richard Vandermarck The number of "repeaters" in prison shows the effect of this kind of a living death upon the inmates. Crime: Its Cause and Treatment This repose was to him an annihilating torment, and the inactive vegetation a living death. The Merchant of Berlin An Historical Novel However wise, however able the conquerors, life under them is a living death. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form I love you so dearly that I cannot live away from you--it is a living death. Wife in Name Only Shortly after my rescue from a very living death, the attendants picked me up and carried my limp body and laughing soul to an adjoining room, where I was tenderly placed upon a bed. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Your conscience has no business to send you to a living death. The Three Sisters A living death—a state of restless wanderings, and unsatisfied desires! The world's great sermons, Volume 03 Massillon to Mason I'm a living man, and a living man objects to a living death. The Man from Brodney's For day after day this living death endured. The Crimes of England Samson's complaint is therefore too elaborate to be natural: As in the land of darkness, yet in light, To live a life half dead, a living death, And bury'd; but, O yet more miserable! The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II That would be the worst of all, if you turned out to be so limited that you were satisfied,—that would be a living death. The Happiest Time of Their Lives The woman he had rescued was indeed his sister, saved from a living death and brought back to life and love. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction But her paralyzed muscles refused to respond, and she stood mute and rigid, staring with ghastly countenance at the living death creeping toward them. Return of Tarzan Ten years,—and ever since I have been here, helpless to extricate myself, doomed to a living death, which none other can ever fully realise! The Lost City "To-night I consign you to the living death to which you devoted her—a hopeless prison—" 'He raised his eyes to the old man's countenance, and paused. The Pickwick Papers But to think of her living death—to realise what it is to which I do leave her! Anne's House of Dreams And this penalty is exacted equally from those who have deliberately said, "Evil, be thou my Good," and for those who have been decoyed, snared, trapped into the life which is a living death. In Darkest England and the Way Out No bitter meanness now shall sicken his baby heart till it die a living death, no taunt shall madden his happy boyhood. The Souls of Black Folk Your clutch is on his life, and you cause him to die daily a living death, and still he knows you not. The Scarlet Letter Now all is gone and wasted, for a life Without life's joys I count a living death. Oedipus Trilogy And now she is dead, men tell me, and I, In this living death must I linger and lie Till my cup to the dregs is drunken? Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon A life of living death, beset with the innumerable horrors of the cotton field, and the sugar plantation, seemed to be my doom. My Bondage and My Freedom He was inflicting on him that frightful living death, that death beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys. Les Misérables The yells of men possessed, sometimes, made them pause, and wonder that they felt so happy, in a tomb of living death. Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman It seems to me that life is no life, but living death, without that freedom! The Armourer's Prentices Oxford is the strangest relic of the past, the type of living death. A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 "Worse, I think," she answered—"a living death, the 'Punishment of the Wall.'" Fair Margaret To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried; but oh, yet more miserable! Tales and Novels — Volume 04 I verily believe that the honesty of the alienists in charge of the institution alone saved me from a living death. Government By the Brewers? It would be of all living deaths the worst. Charlotte's Inheritance It was one thing to die that a fellow-creature might have all things good! another to live a living death that he might persist in the pride of life! Weighed and Wanting For what is it that I would say, O Lord my God, save that I know not whence I came hither into this dying life, shall I call it, or living death?… Saint Augustin Imagination cannot mislead us into too much horror of being without God—that one living death. Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. He had preferred death, of which the meaning was unknown to him, to the possibility of that living death in which his father had lingered for many years. With Edged Tools Out of it steams the horror of corruption, wrapt in whose living death a man cries out that God himself can do nothing for him. The Flight of the Shadow There he lived, like things bound within a cold rock alive, while all was stone around, and there he died, after a living death to the world, in solitude without love. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe But the living death to which her offspring might be condemned, was rarely absent from her thoughts. The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish Oh, I've got no scruples; arrest to me means a living death. The Brass Bowl She is not dead," said Wiggins, in an awful voice, "though all these years she has lived a living death. The Living Link Farewell to him Who reverences not with an excess Of faith the beauteous sex; all barren he Shall live a living death of mockery. Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. Are men, indeed, such things? and are the best More subject to this evil than the rest, 640 To drivel out whole years of idiot breath, And sit the monuments of living death? Poetical Works A living death seemed to be their lot, and they moaned without moving as the light wind passed on its way. Two Summers in Guyenne Was the suspense a living death to him? Between Friends His eyes were closed at all times, and in that stupor he seemed to be in a state of living death. The Living Link The Court thinks so too; the limit is imposed, and the malefactor is led out to the living death which will end with death in reality. The Subterranean Brotherhood In their thoughts they had already unlocked the door of that living death and were face to face with the insupportable facts of nature. The Desert and the Sown One summer evening when the poor woman was sitting in the dark in the self-hypnotized condition of the utter emptiness of her living death, she heard Christophe playing. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House The horses flounder through the mire, or sink up to the belly in slime, while clouds of flies make the life of man and beast a living death. Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America In a living death, as if by an awful anticipation of the common lot it was ordained that in the flesh he should know corruption, he lay waiting his summons hourly for fifty-three days. Castilian Days "Do that," said Hunston, "and you consign me to a living death, worse than any tortures that savages could inflict." Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece You wish to chain me to a living death. Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans But considering the living death he has led for twenty-three years, one can hardly call death and release a misfortune. A Terrible Secret He briefly told him what he had just seen, and what, in his opinion, Lady Bellamy's fate must be—one of living death. Dawn A living death, a life of awful woe, Incurable by man, his way shall go. Babylonian and Assyrian Literature The one fact that seems to have haunted him most was that his abode in Corsica was a living death. Seekers after God Neither do I speak to gain your prayers, for a lingering, living death within these walls will be a penance fit to cleanse my soul of every sin. The Prose Marmion A Tale of the Scottish Border It was dull, monotonous, dismal; imprisonment in a tomb, a living death, where none could know her agonies but God; where she could not even hear from him who was her life. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women "Then I sailed for Virginia to meet sorrow, good friends, and live a living death," he concluded. The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; a Century Too Soon (A Story Her heart mutters within her breast, "Come, I wish to meet you, vile foe, who captured my lover and tortures him now with a living death." American Indian stories Though a young man, there are gray hairs in my head, for it has been a living death since that night, Morgianna. Sustained honor The Age of Liberty Established I had been sentenced to twenty years—twenty years of a living death—and that alone remained impressed on my mind. Wolves of the Sea Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manuscript of One Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur" But wretched he who chooses the sixth, whose hair falls from his head, whose skin peels from his body, and who lingers long in excruciating agonies, a living death. The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales "That paper," she said in a low voice, "means life to me instead of a living death; it means more than I can tell you, more than even you can understand." The Hunt Ball Mystery To the little woman lying back on the pillow it seemed a living death--this thing that had come to her. Across the Years This might be an underground race condemned to a sordid filthy and living death for unimaginable crimes of a previous existence. Sleeping Fires: a Novel From living death in that desolate Bay, We had sprung to welcome the judgment day; Although in the pit should our lot be cast, So that this our great woe should end at last. Verses and Rhymes By the Way You are a person of education and culture; you speak languages; you have the broad 'a,' and if you had to go unshaven it would be a living death. Flowing Gold A living death; another installed in her place; all that woman holds dear trembling in the balance. Round the World Besides, I added, why should my Esther suffer a living death for years for the sake of the folk hereabouts? More Pages from a Journal This living death, then, and revenge, were the things ruling Juan's life at the time of which I tell you. Bat Wing Again the lashing stroke; again the beautiful countering;—again the living death is hurled aside; and now the scaled skin is deeply torn,—one eye socket has ceased to flame. Two Years in the French West Indies All they had to ask, was 'when,' and 'how,' and to hear, that the long living death had ended in peaceful insensibility at last. The Pillars of the House, V1 He was no longer left alone in the awful solitude of living death. His Sombre Rivals She died to preserve my life; you suffered a living death to maintain my honor! The Scottish Chiefs Alas, my grief! hard hap had I Those dolours here to find, A living death, in hell I lie, Involv'd with grief of mind. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 But your minister spoke to-day of a living death, in which one only exists to suffer. Opening a Chestnut Burr It is appointed to all men to die once," said Bridgenorth; "my life hath been a living death. Peveril of the Peak For more than two years he lived, but it was a living death. English Literature for Boys and Girls What then was the prospect of so soon losing him, even to crown himself with honor, but to her a living death? The Scottish Chiefs Instead of life, a living death Will there in all be found. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 "I would destroy the world," he said, "to save him from a living death." Caesar's Column He held his love as a thing aloof, and, as such, intangible because of the living death she believed she lived, it had no warmth and intimacy for them. The Rainbow Trail To be tied to a—well, to a coarsening influence day after day is living death! Sisters Eckhart may have encouraged Schwester Katrei in her attempt to substitute the living death of the blank trance for the dying life of Christian charity; but none the less she caricatured and stultified his teaching. Light, Life, and Love : selections from the German mystics of the middle ages Hence, nothing can be more terrible to a man than expulsion from caste; the excommunication of our feudal times was not a more dreadful form of living death. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 In his months of the living death he had often looked on at it in the cities through which he had drifted, but he had never taken part in it. In the Wilderness But you condemn me to a living death.... The Border Legion Yes, at any cost she must be saved from this living death! Tides of Barnegat Yes, her beauty appealed to him less than even a year ago; Adela knew it, and it was the one solace in her living death. Demos Others would live on, and know the living death, the ensuing process of hopeless chaos. Women in Love Soft moans of mothers and the wailing of little children gave evidence of so many living deaths. Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom Why couldn't she see the endless, hopeless yearning that consumed him, and know that if he stayed in sight and touch of her it would be like a living death? The Barrier Nor can he thank God for a life which will be long, living death! The Secret Power To live alone, without a loving wife to share one's joys and sorrows, is not living at all: it is a sort of living death. File No. 113 Spain on her side seized English Protestant sailors who ventured into her ports, and burned them as heretics, or consigned them to a living death in the dungeons of the Inquisition. Pioneers of France in the New World "My love!" she sighed, "my Carlos!" even now I feel the perfumed zephyr of her breath Bearing to me those words of living death, And starting out the cold drops on my brow. Maurine and Other Poems On my account condemned to a living death! Old Fritz and the New Era He lay there coffined in his grief, as in living death. Mohammed Ali and His House Anon Sir Oliver became hardened and inured to that unspeakable existence, that living death of the galley-slave. The Sea-Hawk Could he clear my vision to see the sword creeping out of the sheath Inch by inch as we writhe in the toils of our living death! The Pilgrims of Hope But the dark figure on the bed only pressed his arms closer round his head, as though there were within him a living death passing the speech of men. Fraternity Deprive him of them, and his life would become empty, worthless, a living death. The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series You ought to see those living deaths racing horses on the Fourth of July. The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii He goes on to answer those who despise life after the age of sixty-five as a living death, showing them that his own life had nothing deadly about it. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy Yet how could he have let her go through those ten years of living death while he walked the streets scot free? The Fawn Gloves He knew that to spare lives in this fashion was to convert them into living deaths. Captain Blood Were you tarred with the same brush as those canting snobs who doomed a poor old man to a living death? A Millionaire of Yesterday Then had I not been thus exil'd from light; As in the land of darkness yet in light, To live a life half dead, a living death, 100 And buried; but O yet more miserable! The Poetical Works of John Milton For without brotherly love and kindly human interest, laws are but cast-iron rules, and life but a living death. London's Underworld Men who endure it, call it living death. The Jacket (Star-Rover) But there was little time for laughter in those days, what of our heavy work and of the awfulness of Wolf Larsen’s living death. The Sea Wolf Life, did I call it?—let me withdraw that word; it is the awful, protracted agony of a living death, in which sanity struggles with madness, rending and wounding a poor human frame. London's Underworld The shark dropped back into the sea, helpless, yet with its full strength, doomed—to lingering starvation—a living death less meet for it than for the man who devised the punishment. The Sea Wolf |
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