10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «END ONE'S DAYS»
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end one's days in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Sterling Dictionary of Idioms
... statement to the press. without end never reaching an end or finishing He has
been having troubles without end. end it all; end one's life commit suicide She
was so griefstricken that she decided to end it all. end one's days/life (in
something) ...
... bills of mortality, obituary; death song &c. (lamentation) 839. V. die, expire,
perish; meet one's death, meet one's end; pass away, be taken; yield one's
breath, resign one's breath; resign one's being, resign one's life; end one's days,
end ...
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Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
V. die, expire, perish; meet one's -death, — end; pass away, be taken; yield —,
resign— one's breath; resign one's -bcing, — life; end one's -days, — life, —
earthly career; breathe one's last; cease to -live, — breathe; depart this life; be -
no ...
Christopher Orlando Sylvester Mawson
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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions: Together with Death's Duell
... pass away, be taken; yield one's breath, resign one's breath; resign one's
being, resign one's life; end one's days, end one's life, end one's earthly career;
breathe one's last; cease to live, cease to breathe; depart this life; be no more &c
adj.; ...
John Donne, William Henry Draper, Izaak Walton, 1926
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English-Albanian Dictionary of Idioms
It is that they will allow the means to dictate the end. end one's days ngrys ditet,
kaloj ditet e fundit te jetes □ / am reminded of this by a letter from an old friend
who writes to me that he has decided to end his days in Hollywood. end up ...
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Dizionario delle lingue italiana ed inglese
Tcrrhiimrru.ito, s. m. bound, limit, border. Terminante, adj. that terminates, bounds
, or ends. Tcrminiirc, to terminate, to limit, to bound. — Terminire, to end, to finish.
— Terniinare la vita, to end one's days. — 'I'erminare, to end, to put an •end to, ...
Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti, Charles Thomson, 1807
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Oxford Dictionary of English
... patience. be the end Brit. informal be the limit of what one can tolerate: you
really are the end! come to (or meet) a sticky end Brit. be led by one's own actions
to ruin or an unpleasant death. end one's days (or life) spend the final part of
one's ...
8
Rajpal Dictionary Of English Idioms & Phrases
... I have replaced the one which was given before with this End in smoke: Show
no tangible results * All his schemes end in smoke End it all: Commit suicide *
The girl decided to end it all after failing in the exam End one's days: Die * E 166.
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German/English Dictionary of Idioms
Andere Leute sehen auch mal schlecht aus, blaß; man merkt ihnen an, daß sie
älter werden Aber du ...! sein Leben (als Bettler/...) beenden - 1. to end one's days
as a beggarl..., to end up a beggarl..., 2. to take one's life, to commit suicide 1.
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Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, ...
I could not help feeling that if one had been a spoke of a cab-wheel, and had
passed all one's working life in being whirled and clattered over London
pavements, defiled with street mud, how pleasant a way to end one's days was
this; to have ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «END ONE'S DAYS»
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end one's days is used in the context of the following news items.
Miliband's abolition: Many have tried to close non-dom loophole …
The only real requirements to qualify are a foreign passport, and successfully persuading the tax man that one intends to end one's days ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
Review: 'The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy,' by Rachel Joyce
The book's humor comes from the unexpected source of St. Bernadine's Hospice, which seems a merry place to end one's days. The nuns are ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Feb 15»
Meeting Mr. Gray: A reflection on John Gray
It was the way one can only hope to end one's days, in search of the sum of the mark one has left, knowing full well it is far beyond any measure ... «OregonLive.com, Oct 12»
'Nowhere to go' for dying mother
It is quite another, to have to end one's days there because there are no hospice facilities available closer to home. Research has shown most ... «Irish Independent, Nov 07»
