fight to the death

“If they were two old knights, they would fight to the death over it, till the world had lost a brave man, and one of the Dulcineas was a hapless widow, and nothing proved.”

Father Payne

“Nabol Hold must not come into contention, not with every Holder's younger sons eager and willing to fight to the death to secure even as ill-managed a Hold as this.”

Dragon Drums

“Bourgeoisie, if we want to raise ourselves again and become once more a class, we have only one thing to do, and that is to proclaim ourselves the people, and to fight to the death against those who claim to be our superiors by divine right.”

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters

“Spartacus called up three hundred or four hundred, according to another source Roman prisoners and had them fight to the death around a pyrea symbol, at least, of Crixus, assuming that his corpse had not been recovered.”

Simon & Schuster: The Spartacus War

“At precisely this moment the priests and nomarchs of Nilus from Elephantine to Memphis—a thousand miles—came to Pharaoh Cleopatra and offered to fight to the death of every last Egyptian.”

Simon & Schuster: Antony and Cleopatra