1 I wish I may die this minute if I did.
2 Becky understood, and her hope died again.
3 This was a damper, and conversation died again.
4 But the talk soon began to drag, and then died.
5 There was a weak attempt at applause, but it died early.
6 But they soon grew feeble, and presently died wholly away.
7 By and by the tempest spent itself and died without accomplishing its object.
8 No, they think they will, but they generally forget the marks, or else they die.
9 Gradually their talk died out and drowsiness began to steal upon the eyelids of the little waifs.
10 Then he shot the arrow and fell back and would have died, but he lit on a nettle and sprang up too gaily for a corpse.
11 The whisper died wholly out, now, for the three men had reached the grave and stood within a few feet of the boys' hiding-place.
12 The call went echoing down the empty aisles and died out in the distance in a faint sound that resembled a ripple of mocking laughter.
13 She sank to the ground and burst into such a frenzy of crying that Tom was appalled with the idea that she might die, or lose her reason.
14 He pictured himself lying sick unto death and his aunt bending over him beseeching one little forgiving word, but he would turn his face to the wall, and die with that word unsaid.
15 At last the frantic sufferer sheered from its course, and sprang into its master's lap; he flung it out of the window, and the voice of distress quickly thinned away and died in the distance.
16 Joe was for being a hermit, and living on crusts in a remote cave, and dying, some time, of cold and want and grief; but after listening to Tom, he conceded that there were some conspicuous advantages about a life of crime, and so he consented to be a pirate.
17 His mother had whipped him for drinking some cream which he had never tasted and knew nothing about; it was plain that she was tired of him and wished him to go; if she felt that way, there was nothing for him to do but succumb; he hoped she would be happy, and never regret having driven her poor boy out into the unfeeling world to suffer and die.
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