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Sentence Examples As the old director lies on his deathbed, he is rung from Radio City Music Hall to hear the standing ovation for his restored masterpiece. On his deathbed, a family patriarch agonizes over being able to recognize his grandchildren. Preparation for death included deathbed prayers and the last rites, administered by a priest. Nothing more could add to his notoriety except a deathbed conversion, and the Scottish bishop and historian Gilbert Burnet was to provide it. But Alison, whose mother had made a deathbed promise to his wife to take care of him, became his great friend. Scully shook her head as her tears flowed freely at this deathbed confession. Luna appeared in Nootka Sound just days after Maquinna's father expressed a deathbed wish for his spirit to return to inhabit a killer whale. Worse, Reubens smears Vaseline on the lens and goes for the deathbed reconciliation scene. On his deathbed, he asked for a Masonic funeral, and seventy-six Masons came forward the next day for the ceremony. His deathbed wish was to be buried out of doors where the rain would fall on him. The image of him on his deathbed, mouth partly open, half-lidded eyes staring up at me, haunted my sleeping and waking dreams. And deathbed rituals and religious consolations softened even the sting of death. Edward, naturally, takes advantage of all the deathbed attention to once again relate the story of his wildly exaggerated life. In Stoppard's poignant and witty memory play, the poet lies on his deathbed remembering and misremembering his emotional and scholarly life. On his deathbed he ordered two pigeons, three steaks, a bottle of wine, a glass of champagne, two glasses of port and a glass of brandy. In 1953, as Arthur lay on his deathbed, Comtessa Dialta claims he promised his illegitimate daughter, Liana, a portion of his estate. The show's animating principle, that O'Briain wants to look back from his deathbed on a life well lived, is equally admirable. The press was informed and, as older people will remember, it seemed that the whole world gathered in a vigil around his deathbed. On his deathbed, wracked by tuberculosis, he seems to have cursed his fate. From the moment we leave our mother's body at birth to our last gasp on our deathbed, we need air every minute. Show More Sentences On his deathbed, Cedd requested that Chad succeed him as abbot of Lastingham. Images of his deathbed and casts of his death mask consequently circulated widely throughout the country and beyond. Bogart seems to have rescinded his deathbed remorse about switching from scotch to Martinis. In sharp contrast to the medieval attitude towards death and its representation in daily life, the deathbed scene has all but been removed. His deathbed visitor violates the terms of Nolan's sentence and at last shares with Nolan the events of the previous fifty years. Derek Jarman opens his claustrophobic, skyless Caravaggio with the feverish artist on his shadowy deathbed. The Mozarabic liturgy had perfected the deathbed penance more than any other liturgy. There are moments of pure heartbreak in the film, no less so than when Bob is lying on his deathbed awaiting his final breaths. India's Satyajit Ray, undoubtedly a master of the medium, was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Oscar on his deathbed. A philosopher, his original name was Constantine but he became better known by his name in religion, Cyril, which he adopted on his deathbed. They say they were led to the location after a woman's deathbed confession. Although she knows her fate, even on her deathbed she insists, like Goriot, on closing her eyes to maintain her illusions. Nicole lay on her deathbed, surround by only her family and the closest friends. Some funeral agencies even recruit doctors to act as middlemen, to strongly recommend the agency to the relatives around on the deathbed. Naturally Grandmother hounded him to his deathbed, trying to make him give up believing in Darwinian evolution. Lugovoi was the prime suspect, leaving a radioactive trail and accused by the victim on his deathbed. Keopuolani converted on her deathbed in 1823, instructing her son Kamehameha II to protect the missionaries. Solness has much to regret, and yet, we meet him on his deathbed in this moment of deep, profound reflection. One Sunday, on her daily visit to the almshouse, Evangeline sees an old man on his deathbed. She accepted the cup gratefully and without a hint of couth she gulped down the sparkling liquid as if it was water from the Fountain of Youth and she was on her deathbed. Show More Sentences On his deathbed, Yaakov gives a final message to each of his sons. I was busy imagining the eccentric old rock polisher who donated these wonderful little irregular cubes of wonder to the store while on his deathbed. I frequently ask workshop groups to identify those things that they would miss most were they to be looking back on their life from their deathbed. He is largely oblivious to the fact that he has caused her decline, and even excuses himself from her deathbed to have a final meeting with his mistress at the quayside. And why was his mother, on her deathbed, so worried about integrity? Years later, a deathbed confession confirmed what many suspected. Or is it, as whispered by the city's elite, a deathbed conversion? The commissioning of such an atlas would have required incredible wealth, and Mr Douthwaite believes it may have been a deathbed bequest from the queen to Raleigh. On his deathbed Richard named John as his heir, although by the law of primogeniture Arthur, the son of an older brother, Geoffrey, should have succeeded him. Neither Dickens nor Thackeray was immune to the temptations of sentimentality as is instanced by their treatment of deathbed scenes. In 2006, a former Liberal staffer told the nation that the last-minute Kelowna accord and child care provisions were a deathbed repentance. But for those who mind most, complaining about poor deathbed treatment is unusually difficult. From teenage years to deathbed he made and re-made his own image with a feverish intensity. At his deathbed he said: «I shall be more useful to you in heaven than during my life down here». He left fairly quickly because he was told that his mother was on her deathbed. Participants were told about some inmates dying in prison or being released just before they died, to their deathbed. This deathbed conversion happened following their conference in Montreal in February. Is this deathbed conversion genuine or is the government just playing politics with health care again? Finally, at our deathbed, we discover that we failed to achieve even half of what we wanted. When his career ended on his deathbed, he headed a burgeoning industrial nation of 5 million occupying the second-largest land mass on earth. Show More Sentences When he breaks down on camera it is while telling the story of a dying man who called him from his deathbed. On her deathbed, she apparently signed a new will without my knowledge. No one knows what Copernicus himself thought of the changes, since the first he saw of the printed version of his magnum opus was when it was delivered to him on his deathbed. Infant and deathbed baptisms bring new dimensions to understanding the operation of baptism engaging human life to its limits and beyond as evidence of divine grace. All the witnesses could offer were thirdhand accounts or deathbed confessions that came decades after the fact. On your deathbed, convert the padre who comes to give you final unction. From his deathbed, Anselm anathematized all who failed to recognize Canterbury's primacy over all the English church. After a misunderstanding in which Hal thinking his father has died removes the crown from the king's pillow and leaves the sickroom, father and son are reconciled on the king's deathbed. The dilemma was how to propose a big tax cut and still look credible. Dole knew that the Democrats would mock him for a deathbed conversion. Van Spilbergen was at his deathbed and took Le Maire's report of his trip, which he included in his book Mirror of the East and West Indies. They even met, though only when Orwell was already on his deathbed. Mr Lebedoff shows sureness of touch in linking the men's writing and their lives. 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. The story moves gracefully back and forth from her deathbed, surrounded by children, neighbours and nurse, to her past and particularly to a determinative weekend love affair. It is from the perspective of a Mexican cacique on his deathbed. The painting on the easel shows the emperor on his deathbed. And Christine Entwisle's Lady Capulet, in a fit of experimental stylisation, runs a mini-marathon round Juliet's deathbed, merely provoking incredulous titters. This connection between innateness and immortality prompts Socrates' deathbed discussion of innateness in the Phaedo, where the topic of discussion is the immateriality and immortality of the soul. Cardinals and other personalities came to visit him on his deathbed. There was no work done to make sure that even the last deathbed commitment the Liberals made would have to be honoured by whatever government was in power after the election. Remember how reluctantly Cervantes says farewell to his Don Quixote, who has been on his deathbed, and who has, at the last moment, renounced his knight errantry. Show More Sentences From the earliest part of his intellectual awakening to his very deathbed, Lewis was enrapt by the Aeneid. Mr. Hitchens discussed the possibility of a deathbed conversion, insisting that the odds were slim that he would admit the existence of God. Whether it is anything more than a deathbed conversion, and whether it can save him and his party from oblivion, remains to be seen-sooner rather than later, given the changes sweeping the world today. Poems, advertising slogans, offhand observations, deathbed declarations, political orations, jokes, curses — all are seeking to find permanent lodgment in your brain. After years of discounting the science behind climate change, official opposition members would have us believe that they have experienced a deathbed conversion on the need to address climate change and the Kyoto accord. One of the conspirators, James Ashton, is said to have confessed to the murders on his deathbed after being haunted by the dead couple. Addie watches from her deathbed as Cash builds her coffin. This engraving shows Gabriel on his deathbed, in the arms of Evangeline. The limit of death that is so fascinatedly and prettily witnessed in the sentimental deathbed scene is here pried open and distended. In reply, William did not dispute the deathbed promise, but argued that Edward's prior promise to him took precedence. On his deathbed, Edward had named his surviving brother Richard of Gloucester as Protector of England. One of these senators, James Gyle, was suspended from the Order for seven years for visiting nationalist MP Joe Devlin on his deathbed. Although he asked the Dauphin to come to his deathbed, Louis refused, instead waiting at Avesnes, in Burgundy, for his father to die. The accounts of his deathbed have been numerous and varying, and it has not been possible to establish the details of what precisely occurred. By 897 the young prince ruled only the city of Laon before Odo on his deathbed designated him as his successor. Her son and successor King Edward VII, and her eldest grandson, Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, were at her deathbed. Her favourite pet Pomeranian, Turi, was laid upon her deathbed as a last request. Gregory believed that punishment of sins can begin, even on one's deathbed. 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. I read someone speculating about a deathbed reconciliation. Show More Sentences On January 8, 1324, despite physicians' efforts to treat him, Polo was on his deathbed. On his deathbed Eutychius recanted impalpability and Gregory dropped the matter. Poverty is the inheritance Dominic of Guzman left us from his deathbed and he anathematized any brother who would blemish the holy virtue of evangelical poverty. On his deathbed Conrad I chose Henry of Saxony as the most capable successor. Jacob rebuked Simeon and Levi for arousing the enmity of neighbouring tribes and, on his deathbed, gave his blessing to their younger brother Judah, reproving Simeon and Levi for their cruelty. As Frederic Chopin gasped for air on his deathbed in Paris in 1849, he whispered a request that became the stuff of musical legend: Remove my heart after I die and entomb it in Poland. The introduction ends with Julian's recounting of her sudden recovery as she lay on her deathbed gazing at a shining image of the cross. Gordon Brown's deathbed conversion to electoral reform may look like pure opportunism and widening the goalposts for his team just as the match kicks off. Talking about payment in kind was very tacky when they'd been thundering towards the kind of dirtybadwrong porno-sex that she'd remember on her deathbed. Larkin had asked on his deathbed that his diaries be destroyed. Several historians doubt the murder story as there is no indication that the ring was recovered and the legend stems from a romantic and unverifiable deathbed confession. The regalia of the Carolingian empire had been divided by Louis the Pious on his deathbed between his two faithful sons, Charles the Bald and Lothair. After the stalemate of the Battle of Largs, Haakon retreated to Orkney, where he died in December 1263, entertained on his deathbed by recitations of the sagas. As he lay dying, Sidney composed a song to be sung by his deathbed. Examples from Classical Literature I think the particularization of the children in the deathbed scene has an important effect on the imagination. They will be more apt to understand from the telegram that you're on your deathbed. Upon his deathbed rinzai summoned his disciples round him and asked which of them felt capable of carrying on his work. Cap'n Eben, on his deathbed, asked Dr. Parker and me to be witnesses to the engagement. This Cobus Quackenbos had declared on his deathbed, so that there could not be any doubt of it. But it were impious to trace any farther the picture of the blasphemer and parricide's deathbed. My poor governess, lying rigid on her deathbed, had a man's face. On its deathbed it will recall it all over again, with interest accumulated over all the years and. Some people even talked of a promise to his wife on her deathbed, and others of the son and the uncle not letting him. The next day Bessie was sent for home to the deathbed of her little sister. There's also a clue to Debbie's past, when a mysterious old man sends her a strange package from his deathbed. It would have become him better to have repented of his sins on his deathbed, than to glory in them, and give away his estate out of his own family to a misbegotten child. Still clinging to the notion on his deathbed that Piety needs a man for security, he tells his daughter that young Lant will be able to make a living and care for her. On his deathbed Driscoll set Roxy free and delivered his idolized ostensible son solemnly into the keeping of his brother, the judge, and his wife. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of deathbed? Words that rhyme with deathbed What is the plural of deathbed? What is the adverb for deathbed? What is the adjective for deathbed? What is the noun for deathbed? Translations for deathbed Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words death anniversary Death death deasil deas deary death-bed deathblow death-blow death camp death-dealing death-defying 8-letter Words Starting With d de dea deat death deathb deathbe