Sentence examples for honorable death from inspiring English sources

A quiet life and an honorable death.

And they didn't even give me an honorable death".

Now you can die an honorable death in combat rather than be raped and pillaged".

"I told my wife I would rather see National Geographic [magazine] die an honorable death than be swept into something it's not supposed to be," Skerry said.

Last week, when Steve Guttenberg was eliminated, there was weeping and hugging, as if he were going to an honorable death.

On the final page, the authors introduced an excerpt from "Utopia," by Thomas More, who describes a world in which "officially sanctioned euthanasia is regarded as an honorable death".

In his request, he expressed hope that the socks would: "Cheer our soldiers, discourage desertions, hurry off able bodied furloughed men to the front and stimulate them to prefer honorable deaths in the face of the enemy, to dishonest lives prolonged by shrinking from duty".

Brandt describes how Stanton told the court that her affair with Key had put her on the road toward "the horrid filth that is common prostitution". The courtroom erupted in applause as Stanton described Sickles's motives as honorable — "the death of Key was a cheap sacrifice to save one mother from the horrible fate," the attorney declared.

If she is not a witch, then she will fall to an honorable Christian death.

Unlike priests or lawyers, physicians had not yet rid themselves of the taint of artisanal labor, and they were thus indicative of a middle class that sought to earn the respect of their peers and betters, protect and advance their families, and secure honorable remembrance after death.

A prominent local Navy man, a former employee, had committed suicide the day before by throwing himself under a train — a death considered honorable enough to warrant a memorial service, which was to be held at the tin works at ten o'clock that morning.