"What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!"
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"The gloomy shade of death."
"For precious friends hid in death's dateless night."
"This thought is as a death."
"He that dies this year is quit for the next."
"Unsubstantial Death is amorous."
"The sudden hand of Death close up mine eye!"
"Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death."
"When Death doth close his tender dying eyes."
"Crack'd in pieces by malignant Death."
"So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men."
"O Death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!"
"When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover."
"Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession."
"Thou ominous and fearful owl of death."
"Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently."
"Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight."
"One of those heavenly days that cannot die."
"As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!"
"He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his."