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Go to one's reward [2] To die Euphemistic: Final reckoning, just deserts after death Go to one's watery grave [1] To die of drowning: Literary: Go to a Texas cakewalk [11] To be hanged Unknown Go the way of all flesh [2] To die Neutral Go west [2] To be killed or lost Informal Refers to the sun setting at the west. The Grim Reaper [2 ...
In the English language, an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person's name, e.g.: Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Mx, Sir, Dame, Dr, Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person's name, as in Mr President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.
The work begins with the poet asking what ghost beckons him onward with its "bleeding bosom gor'd"; it is the spirit of an unnamed woman (the "lady" of the title) who acted "a Roman's part" (i.e., committed suicide) due to loving "too well." The speaker eulogizes her sacrifice and then for several lines berates and curses her uncle (who is also ...
These loyalty quotes help put words to the value of a trusting relationship as well as the heartbreak of betrayal, by names from Shakespeare to Selena Gomez. 100 loyalty quotes by everyone from ...
Genesis 37:34-35 “Then Jacob tore his clothes, put a simple mourning cloth around his waist, and mourned for his son for many days. All of his sons and daughters got up to comfort him, but he ...
"When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one." [21] [23] — Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American humanist and writer (17 August 1935), in her suicide note
National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: Call 988 or chat online. National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (options for deaf and hard of hearing). For TTY Users: Use your preferred relay service or dial ...
— Hannibal, Carthaginian general (c. 182 BC), in a suicide note "Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men." [15]: 74 [26] — Ennius, writer and poet of the Roman Republic (c. 169 BC); lines dictated to be engraved on his memorial. Only fragments of his ...