M179) We have seen reason to think that in early times Adonis was sometimes personated by a living man who died a violent death in the character of the god.
The Burmese believe that persons who meet a violent death become "nats "and haunt the place where they were killed.
Violent death, the future state of persons who have died a, i.
The sorceress, having consulted her familiar spirits, answered that Natholocus would die a violent death by the hand of one of his most intimate friends.
We possess little trustworthy information concerning his life, except that he was the slave of Iadmon of Samos and met with a violent death at the hands of the inhabitants of Delphi.
Yet for nearly ten years he continued to struggle with fate before he fled from his charge, yielding in the end only under peru of violent death.
Offerings are made to the dead in the latter month, but not to persons who have died a violent death.
Propitiating the spirits of those who have died a violent death.
And if the pain of the whole week or twain in which they lie pining in their bed, were gathered together in so short a time as a man hath his pain who dieth a violent death, it would, I daresay, make double the pain that is his.
Some of the reasons for preferring a violent death to the slow death of old age or disease are obviously as applicable to common men as to the man-god.
Like the other gods of vegetation whom we have been considering, Dionysus was believed to have died a violent death, but to have been brought to life again; and his sufferings, death, and resurrection were enacted in his sacred rites.
The Sun, with the Pleiades, Castor, Pollux, or Praesepe, shows a cruel and headstrong disposition in the native and the probability of violent death.
The Duke yet liues, that Henry shall depose: But him out-liue, and dye a violent death Bulling.
I am with childe ye bloody Homicides: Murther not then the Fruite within my Wombe, Although ye hale me to a violent death Yor.
The Duke yet liues, that Henry shall depose: But him out-liue, and dye a violent death.
These discharges occur in all kinds of violent death.
Coroner to hold inquest in Philadelphia County only in case of a violent death (Bright Pen.
The two were of immense size, and very much alike, and bore the marks of a violent death; their age was determined to be about twenty-six years.
How often had she marvelled at the old nurse's stern summary of his end: "He died a violent death!
Mrs. Catherine paused for a moment, and then resumed: "You have heard tell of your father, and how he died a violent death?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "violent death" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
