How To Use Deathbed In A Sentence

  • I was addressing the issue of whether his deathbed activities that I read about could meaningfully be described as signs of repentance for his proabortion rights stance. Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral
  • But since he or his representative maintained for years that his proabortion rights stance is consistent with being a Catholic in good standing, with receiving Holy Communion, leading family prayers, and being visited by priest friends, I can't for the life of me figure out why I should see his doing such things on his deathbed as "signs of repentance" for the manifest grave sin of his proabortion rights stance. Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral
  • It is not on its deathbed, but it is looking distinctly unwell. Times, Sunday Times
  • A more serious breach of ethics came with the publication of a picture of Mitterrand on his deathbed.
  • Nothing more could add to his notoriety except a deathbed conversion, and the Scottish bishop and historian Gilbert Burnet was to provide it.
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  • Usually rendered as Good Samaritans, doctors in paintings typically hover near sickbeds or deathbeds, dispensing solace and advice.
  • The deathbed struggles of the enemies can only hasten their own doom.
  • One hears stories of Christians who, in great anguish of heart, hover over the deathbeds of unbelieving dying relatives, hoping to hear, if only as a last gasp, a confession of faith.
  • I told him he was the bravest man I'd ever known, leaving out how his braveness usually crossed the line into pigheaded stupidity (one should cut someone a little slack when he's on his deathbed).
  • On his deathbed, my father made me promise not to sell the house.
  • As my grandfather claimed even on his deathbed, "... we have seen, for ourselves, an epical cosmic battle with Satanic families of evil (Cheney's at one point) for these last 1975 years. Jefferson on, God, Freedom, Arms, and Government
  • In sharp contrast to the medieval attitude towards death and its representation in daily life, the deathbed scene has all but been removed.
  • On his deathbed, he was initially refused an increase in his very low dose of morphine by the palliative care team. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. Woody Allen 
  • In 1953, as Arthur lay on his deathbed, Comtessa Dialta claims he promised his illegitimate daughter, Liana, a portion of his estate.
  • Although she knows her fate, even on her deathbed she insists, like Goriot, on closing her eyes to maintain her illusions.
  • In many ways it was vintage Hillary -- talking about herself, her own accomplishments, and how dedicated her supporters are to * her* (the deathbed story). Hillary: Time To "Write The Next Chapter In America's Story"
  • As Greenblatt observes, ‘Purgatory, along with theological language of communion, deathbed confession, and anointing (aneling), while compatible with a Christian (and, specifically, a Catholic) call for remembrance, is utterly incompatible with a Senecan call for vengeance’.
  • The good father also believed that the last struggle of Champlain on his deathbed was a prophecy. Champlain's Dream
  • On her deathbed Mary Leapor reportedly expressed concern for her father's advancing age.
  • He is largely oblivious to the fact that he has caused her decline, and even excuses himself from her deathbed to have a final meeting with his mistress at the quayside.
  • On his deathbed, wracked by tuberculosis, he seems to have cursed his fate.
  • Reuben, '' said his wife, smiling at his surprise, ` ` till on my deathbed, or maybe on some family pinch; but it wad be better laid out on yon bonny grass-holms, than lying useless here in this auld pigg. '' The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • Derek Jarman opens his claustrophobic, skyless Caravaggio with the feverish artist on his shadowy deathbed.
  • Father Cuthbert had gone to her father's deathbed and anointed his eyes, brow, mouth, hands and feet with holy oil. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • A riot in a drab housing project outside Paris leaves one participant on his deathbed, a victim of police brutality.
  • You wouldn't kneel down to pray for your mother on her deathbed when she asked you.
  • The midway, while still a charming slice of carnival colour, is full of antiquated rides that wheeze and shudder like geezers on their deathbeds.
  • I was busy imagining the eccentric old rock polisher who donated these wonderful little irregular cubes of wonder to the store while on his deathbed.
  • the deathbed scene is the climax of the play
  • And deathbed rituals and religious consolations softened even the sting of death.
  • A riot in a drab housing project outside Paris leaves one participant on his deathbed, a victim of police brutality.
  • Perhaps my enjoyment of these most recent deathbed roundelays has been offset a bit by listening recently to some of his earlier work that follows his sobriety but precedes his mortality.
  • His deathbed wish was to be buried out of doors where the rain would fall on him.
  • And clearly, the mainstream of the Democratic party have no interest in legislating what people do in their bedrooms, pews and deathbeds.
  • She veers between charmingly flirtatious and excessively winsome, the latter especially when preparing for her deathbed scene. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bogart seems to have rescinded his deathbed remorse about switching from scotch to Martinis.
  • Much better to imagine the deathbed scene, when at least you'll be around to lap up the attention. Times, Sunday Times
  • After nursing her father on his deathbed this year, she made a slip-up and forgot to pay for three months. The Sun
  • A more serious breach of ethics came with the publication of a picture of Mitterrand on his deathbed.
  • ‘There are a couple of points that have to be cleared up,’ he begins his deathbed ramble.
  • On her deathbed, Miriam's mother reveals that she never knew her father.
  • But then why did Samson tell that whopper on his deathbed? ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • He promised his mother on her deathbed that he would never marry.
  • I frequently ask workshop groups to identify those things that they would miss most were they to be looking back on their life from their deathbed.
  • But then why did Samson tell that whopper on his deathbed? ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • And indeed my grandmother and aunt, on their deathbeds, asked to be buried in the village cemetery, thinking that thus they'd always be close to us.
  • Hoster is saying "tansy" on his deathbed because he regrets what he did to Lysa and is possibly one of the reasons Lysa left Riverrun and never returned. Which episode will GRRM write?
  • I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. Woody Allen 
  • Puffy eyes, the recitation of dramatic deathbed monologues.
  • Luna appeared in Nootka Sound just days after Maquinna's father expressed a deathbed wish for his spirit to return to inhabit a killer whale.
  • Some funeral agencies even recruit doctors to act as middlemen, to strongly recommend the agency to the relatives around on the deathbed.
  • Or is it, as whispered by the city's elite, a deathbed conversion?
  • Today, I received email with these subject lines: your penis your life balky cocoon aggressor --- Yeah, what the hell IS that? countrify blatz lump deathbed rust --- this was an ad for breast enlargement! Purplecigar Diary Entry
  • But think of everything that got away, that fled with the last deathbed exhalation of the biographee. The Times Literary Supplement
  • He was too dangerous to be released a few weeks ago, but now Jack Straw, in his infinite mercy and wisdom, is prepared to let Biggs die in relative freedom - well, as free as any man can be on his deathbed, that is. Better Late Than Never
  • I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. Woody Allen 
  • Naturally Grandmother hounded him to his deathbed, trying to make him give up believing in Darwinian evolution.
  • A philosopher, his original name was Constantine but he became better known by his name in religion, Cyril, which he adopted on his deathbed.
  • Brother Michael's hortatory letters from his deathbed, a gold locket containing a spray of Aunt Imelda's un tameable mop of white hair, a folder of personal correspondence including Lord Brinkley's letter to me and his Christmas cards, and the sturdy cloth shoulder-bag that had carried home the ingredients for my coq au vin. The mission song
  • Infant and deathbed baptisms bring new dimensions to understanding the operation of baptism engaging human life to its limits and beyond as evidence of divine grace.
  • Louis Bertrand on his deathbed was accompanied by an intense light which brightened his humble cell for several minutes.
  • No one on their deathbed ever said: ‘I wish I had spent more time at work.’
  • On his deathbed, Yaakov gives a final message to each of his sons.
  • There are moments of pure heartbreak in the film, no less so than when Bob is lying on his deathbed awaiting his final breaths.
  • You know, that last week people make what they call deathbed appointments, deathbed pardons. CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2007
  • Usually rendered as Good Samaritans, doctors in paintings typically hover near sickbeds or deathbeds, dispensing solace and advice.
  • Nicole lay on her deathbed, surround by only her family and the closest friends.
  • Adrienne Lecouvreur on her deathbed was willing to confess and receive communion, but refused to abjure her profession.
  • The press was informed and, as older people will remember, it seemed that the whole world gathered in a vigil around his deathbed.
  • On his deathbed, he asked for a Masonic funeral, and seventy-six Masons came forward the next day for the ceremony.
  • They are not merely woollen figurines, illustrative of a deathbed scene in some generic way. 1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
  • On her deathbed, she apparently signed a new will without my knowledge.
  • Years later, a deathbed confession confirmed what many suspected.
  • Edward, naturally, takes advantage of all the deathbed attention to once again relate the story of his wildly exaggerated life.
  • Preserved by the bone-dry Atacama Desert and an elaborate deathbed treatment, the oldest mummies in the world have gone on display in the Chilean capital, Santiago.
  • Learning how to breathe correctly on your deathbed is a bit late in the game for health and longevity. The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity
  • And why was his mother, on her deathbed, so worried about integrity?
  • It was ‘hate at first sight’, but my Uncle Rob had made a deathbed promise to my father to take care of me after he died.
  • On his deathbed, with a somewhat self-conscious virtue characteristic both of himself and of the period, he called his stepson to come and 'see in what peace a Christian could die.' A History of English Literature
  • You wouldn't kneel down to pray for your mother on her deathbed when she asked you.
  • But Alison, whose mother had made a deathbed promise to his wife to take care of him, became his great friend.
  • My grandmother gave me that ring when she was on her deathbed.
  • The commissioning of such an atlas would have required incredible wealth, and Mr Douthwaite believes it may have been a deathbed bequest from the queen to Raleigh.
  • One of her favorites is a macabre conceit of her own called the deathbed Oscar. Girl from Berlin
  • She pushed herself back a bit from her deathbed position, her feet and elbows slipping as she realized what she was on - a bed.
  • On his deathbed, his confessors had no trouble getting him to pay handsome damages to the church of Notre Dame at Mantes, which he had burned down with its town just before he was seized with his final illness.
  • On his deathbed he ordered two pigeons, three steaks, a bottle of wine, a glass of champagne, two glasses of port and a glass of brandy.
  • A deathbed is a matter of nerves and constitution and not of religion. Byron's Letter to John Murray
  • The old man panted forth the hope on his deathbed will.
  • India's Satyajit Ray, undoubtedly a master of the medium, was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Oscar on his deathbed.
  • She accepted the cup gratefully and without a hint of couth she gulped down the sparkling liquid as if it was water from the Fountain of Youth and she was on her deathbed.
  • His deathbed conversion and reception into the Roman Catholic Church is indisputable.
  • In Stoppard's poignant and witty memory play, the poet lies on his deathbed remembering and misremembering his emotional and scholarly life.
  • Constantine I, baptized on his deathbed, was the first Christian Roman emperor.
  • ‘Maybe if I don't make a deathbed confession I'll never die’ he may have thought.
  • It is funny to note that you never hear of a deathbed conversion or renouncement of life activities from progressives. Think Progress » SC Lt. Gov. compares people getting gov’t help to ‘stray animals’ who ‘breed’ because they don’t know better.
  • On his deathbed, a family patriarch agonizes over being able to recognize his grandchildren.
  • On his deathbed Richard named John as his heir, although by the law of primogeniture Arthur, the son of an older brother, Geoffrey, should have succeeded him.
  • Scully shook her head as her tears flowed freely at this deathbed confession.
  • You'd have to be practically on your deathbed before the doctor would come and see you!
  • Fine fevered stuff, in my best heroic style - a deathbed variation on the theme I'd used when I talked Wheeler into running up the white! lag at Cawnpore two years earlier. THE NUMBERS
  • They say they were led to the location after a woman's deathbed confession.
  • If, like frontiersman Kit Carson on his deathbed, you've ever wished that you had "time for just one more bowl of chili," this one is for you. Gastronomy
  • The deathbed struggles of the enemies can only hasten their own doom.
  • His deathbed visitor violates the terms of Nolan's sentence and at last shares with Nolan the events of the previous fifty years.
  • On his deathbed, my father made me promise not to sell the house.
  • ‘I just hoped that Myra might say something from her deathbed,’ she said.
  • Since then, there has been a running drug scare, complete with pics of comatose teens and tales of deathbed agonies.
  • Deathbed confessions show that lords not only recognized in principle the rights of tenants and the limits of lordship, but also saw God in the role of justiciar in the redress of these wrongs.
  • After his father takes to his deathbed, Prince Hal is reborn as King Henry V.
  • But during our commute he commented to me (after seeing a book I was reading regarding evolution, design, etc …) "Did you know that Darwin ditched his theory on his deathbed? Contemplating Design
  • These belated returns are often to an Irish deathbed; the family home or graveyard is often in Tóibín's homeland of County Wexford. The Empty Family by Colm Tóibín – Review
  • The power of witness and duty that Will awarded me on his deathbed was an integral part of what I knew and must live to say. CLEAR PICTURES
  • On his deathbed, Cedd requested that Chad succeed him as abbot of Lastingham.
  • As the old director lies on his deathbed, he is rung from Radio City Music Hall to hear the standing ovation for his restored masterpiece.
  • The show's animating principle, that O'Briain wants to look back from his deathbed on a life well lived, is equally admirable.
  • A mystery caller whose father confessed to a high-profile killing on his deathbed is being asked to contact police so that a murder, which has gone unsolved for almost half a century, can at last be closed.
  • And on her deathbed, word that he had phoned to wish her well brought the simple response: ‘Magic’
  • If you live in the fast lane of bleeding-edge tech, you probably believe physical media's on its deathbed - just a couple coughs and a close-eyed "ahhh" away from casting off its mortal coil. Maximum PC all RSS Feed
  • Worse, Reubens smears Vaseline on the lens and goes for the deathbed reconciliation scene.
  • He had dearly wanted to photograph him on his deathbed. Times, Sunday Times

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