Sentence examples for on a deathbed from inspiring English sources

Every family should discuss end-of-life directives and power of attorney issues long before a loved one is on a deathbed.

I happened to spot the aquamarine from the abdomen of a bluebottle, brilliant in the sunlight but all trussed up on a deathbed of silk.

"I'm not a warrior in that sense, but it has made me more aware that if I let fear keep me from doing things then I might regret it someday, lying on a deathbed.

Mike and Kate's house, on the other hand, with its perfect lines and friendly fussiness, reeking, he supposed, of historical-preservation tax credits, seemed an impossible dream to him, something plucked from a magazine article about childhood memories conjured on a deathbed.

"After all, how the hell can you desert a spouse on a deathbed?" "I understand," Steven said.

The book was based in part on a "deathbed interview" with Casey that Casey's widow and former CIA guards said never took place.

It felt like visiting a loved one on their deathbed: a pilgrimage to honour a species on the eve of its departure.

But it wouldn't seem out of place in the government's latest edict on housing design, which was coughed up in a deathbed splutter on Friday, shortly before parliament was dissolved.

In 1592, rival dramatist Robert Greene made a deathbed attack on the "conceit" of the "upstart crow" from the provinces who considered himself "the onely Shake-scene".

Then they went through a series of maneuvers that were not, I think, the representation of a relationship but maybe what one might remember on one's deathbed about a relationship.

This The Emperor Waltz does with ease, its narrator confidently inhabiting – among others – a lung cancer victim on his deathbed, a gay northern runaway, an exiled Greek Cypriot, Paul Klee, Saint Perpetua, and Philip Hensher (or, at least, "Philip").