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  • I could not realize at all that Jean, so full of plans and industries and action less than a day before, had passed into that voiceless mystery which we call death.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • I am afraid of a root canal or a barium enema but I am not at all afraid of what we call death.

    Willie Nelson, Willie & Shrake, Edwin Bud 1992

  • It was the first time Bobbie and I ever encountered what they call death.

    Willie Nelson, Willie & Shrake, Edwin Bud 1992

  • Our mourning for him is true and real; as is also our loss, but we have a sure hope that a life and death such as his are not extinguished by what we call death.

    General Gordon Saint and Soldier J. Wardle

  • The more I consider such lives as that of your brother -- lives, I mean, which, bearing promise of so rich a harvest, are yet cut off before the full harvest can possibly have been realised -- the more my conviction grows that the passing of such men as he is not death, but only "the birth which we call death."'

    Letters to His Friends Forbes Robinson

  • Thus your spirit, in all its degrees and faculties, is in the closest _rapport_ with all the degrees of matter composing your body, and for this reason alone is able to move it as it does, which it will no longer be able to do when that _rapport_ is destroyed by what you call death.

    The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Hereward Carrington 1919

  • All living things undergo the change which we call death.

    The Philosophy of Antoninus, by George Long, M. A 1909

  • I could not realize at all that Jean, so full of plans and industries and action less than a day before, had passed into that voiceless mystery which we call death.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • I could not realize at all that Jean, so full of plans and industries and action less than a day before, had passed into that voiceless mystery which we call death.

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • The dead are those who have lived in mortality upon earth; the living are mortals who yet shall pass through the ordained change which we call death.

    Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897

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