life or death

“The penal statutes form a very small proportion of the sixty-two books of the Code and Pandects; and in all judicial proceedings, the life or death of a citizen is determined with less caution or delay than the most ordinary question of covenant or inheritance.”

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“It certainly means life or death for Drift Station Zebra.”

Ice Station Zebra

“There is scarcely one of the associates and colleagues of Gen. WILLIAM H.F. LEE who knew him here and up to the closing days of the late Congress who would have been deterred by the thought of personal risk from exchanging the chances of life or death with him for a few months; and yet, in so short a time the dread summoner, who soon or late is to call us all, has taken him from this life into that which fadeth not, neither does it die.”

Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H F Lee

“Even a meager knowledge of English may mean an opportunity to work in a factory versus nonemployment, or it may mean a question of life or death when a sharp command must be understood in order to avoid the danger of a descending crane.”

Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes

“The Franks beheld with envy and despair this impregnable fortress; but they surprised a party of fifty stragglers; and, as they were oppressed by the number of their captives, they fixed, at a trifling ransom, the alternative of life or death for these wretched victims, whom the cruel Baroarians were prepared to massacre on the refusal of the garrison.”

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“77 Chnodomar himself was surrounded and taken prisoner, with three of his brave companions, who had devoted themselves to follow in life or death the fate of their chieftain.”

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“O but this word concerneth thy life or death everlasting.”

A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live