expire

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Born to Expire was really cool, but I thought Desperate Measures just had this really cool songwriting going on – it wasn’t as fast, but it was still very, very metal.

From The Guardian • Feb. 21, 2017

The river-sounds, no longer audible, Expire at Eden's door.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Cf. iv, 3, 171: “and good men’s lives Expire before the flowers in their caps, Dying or ere they sicken.”

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

The Angels of Wind and of Fire Chant only one hymn, and expire With the song's irresistible stress, Expire in their rapture and wonder, As harp-strings are broken asunder By music they throb to express.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert

As for thy scruples, Let them be suppressed, If thou wouldst, baby, Expire well dressed.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various