Fate had dealt him a knock-out blow; his number was up. (P. G. Wodehouse,Girl on Boat, 1922) This expression was common among American soldiers who may have been the first to use it in speaking of death. peg outTo die; to bite the dust. In cribbage, the game is finished when ...
Empire of Death notably retcons Sutekh's fate at the end of Pyramids of Mars, revealing that, rather than banishing him as the Fourth Doctor initially believed to have done, Sutekh had actually evaded his entrapment within the space-time tunnel, and is revealed to have travelled with the ...
Before the first stanza ends, the flowers have already withered, though the day is but half done. In the second stanza, the poet absorbs the flowers’ fate with his senses, his feelings, and his thought. He can’t help but “smell” his “fatall day.” This time, however, the sense...
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death. ~ Pierre Corneille ~ He who does not fear death cares naught for threats. ~ Pierre Corneille ~ Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's prete...
Death is the protagonist of Darksiders II. Death is the leader and most powerful of the Four Horsemen. He is the eldest and currently the most powerful of the surviving Nephilim ever since he and the other Horsemen carried out the extermination of the re
Moving in and out of the death room as a nervous response to their powerlessness, the onlookers become resentful that others may live while this dear woman must die. The jealousy for her is not an envy of her death; it is a jealous defense of her right to live. As the fifth stanza ...
It appears fate had other plans. Rather than going on easy death-calls that required little effort and less emotional involvement, here I was… less than a month after my alleged “retirement” and I was on the second-worst scene of my career. So, what was the WORST scene of my career...
And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die. The speaker finally punctures the puffed-up pride of death by asserting that the soul after it awakes in its Divine Beloved Creator, will know itself to be eternally immortal. Where is death then? Death itself has to "die" ...
can suppress the onset of these waking nightmares, but the process can never be entirely halted. Once the Black Rage begins to take hold, degeneration is inevitable. It can take solar minutes, hours, days...in some rare cases, even decades, but the path always leads to the same fate. ...
I hate death, I hate the fact that I can't control my life when I was born and I hate fate, it's such a stupid word. If I was born as a peasant in 100 BC I would be pissed, working all day and die. But it bad so much that when you've experienced virtual immortality that...