die to

• “He did not die to redeem all, but to redeem some out of all the kindreds, and nations, and tongues under heaven.”

  The Sermons of John Owen

• “You have been just like any other Gernian, bidding living things die to please your ends, and then claiming you have benefited us all!”

  Renegade's Magic

• “Ordinary Detinans could get promoted without having someone die to open a slot for them.”

  Advance and Retreat

• ““Well, ABS would certainly die to have you,” I say, running my hand down the dress’s skirt.”

  Simon & Schuster: Disenchanted Princess

• “Kneel and speak silently to the life you need to take, and ask it if this is a good time, and if it is willing to die to make your life strong.”

  Fictionaut: He Don't Know Him

• “As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,”

  This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States

• “It seems to me quite obvious that in such ideas as these we have the application to metallurgy of the mystic doctrine of self-renunciation -- that the soul must die to self before it can live to God; that”

  Bygone Beliefs

• “I think we've just proven it wouldnae be the first time somebody had to die to spare you and your Church some embarrassment.”

  Fictionaut: It's October, 1956.

• “The Spartans were willing to die to the last man simply to delay the Persians long enough for the Greek fleet to ready itself at Artemisium.”

  The First Man in Rome

• “He sounded more scandalized about the last than the rest; in Shienar, a woman was safe anywhere, any time — except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course — and any man would die to see it so.”

  The Fires of Heaven

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