do to death

Example Sentences

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Many a good musician fears, I know, that machine-made music will not stop with annihilating vulgar display, but will do to death all professional music as well.

From The Joyful Heart by Schauffler, Robert Haven

Could there be men base enough to do to death the noble Wallace?

From The Delicious Vice by Allison, Young Ewing

And now, both leaders from the field recalled, Who hath the worser seeming, do to death, Lest royal waste wax burdensome, but let His better lord it on the empty throne.

From The Georgics by Virgil

This first sad night of grief, I ween, Will do to death each sorrowing queen: Scarce is Kauśalyá left alive; My mother, too, can scarce survive.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Might she not by God's grace, in poverty and hard work, with everything around her quite different from the past, might she not quite do to death the Molly who had lived in Westmoreland House?

From Great Possessions by Ward, Wilfrid, Mrs.