Word: dying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bothwell. With Mary beside him, his forces and the enemy ultimately came face to face at Carberry Hill. She could make terms for herself, none for him. Bothwell's outnumbered troops wavered and muttered. He waited no longer; with a hasty word to her he mounted and fled, to die an exile, in prison...
...England; wrote extensively. Most of these men lived to a ripe old age, to study, heal and teach. Of the moderns, Lister and Morgagni were 85 years old at death. (Hippocrates was either 99 or 73 according to conflicting dim reports of his life.) The youngest to die was Laennec...
...Hybbinette has a rich tenor voice. He has won many a prize by exercising it competitively, and it is his habit to enter the wards with music in his throat Bending over to change a dressing he will flood his patient with, perhaps, the rhapsodic Prize Song from Die Meistersingers. Even whetting his scalpel, even plying it amid quivering tendons and tissue, he will chant a soft aria from The Barber of Seville. Aside from the pleasure it gives his effervescent nature, Dr. Hybbinette believes- and last week's flood of felicitations seemed to bear him out-that...
...Near Montpelier there grew a tree. How, why, one cannot say, a committee of the Service is investigating, but the tree was invisible to him. Night echoed a rending crash, flames leapt out of the wreckage. Pilot Art Smith of the Air Mail was no more, the second to die on duty since the overnight service started last July...
...antithesis of her neurotic nature, which was of a lasciviousness so intense as to be quite "pure." A Catholic, she could not divorce him. An old school Tory, he would not divorce her. He set his jaw, closed his mansion, saw his father commit suicide, his mother die of grief, when he was bruited a maquereau, (wife-seller). His code, so ancient that society could not recognize it, commanded silence. He took the blame, pretending to have liaisons of his own. When, furious at her failure to make him wince, she asked to return to his house, he admitted...