Their youth revolted; and when the soldiers returned to their own cities and families, they did not receive them properly, and as they ought to have done, and numerous deaths, murders, exiles, were the consequence.
— from Laws by Plato

The mystic kings of Fire and Water in Cambodia are not allowed to die a natural death.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

If we must be enemies, let us be men, and fight it out as we propose to do, and not deal in arch hypocritical appeals to God and humanity.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Diawlio, v. to call the devil Diaws, a. unapt Diawydd, a. without avidity Dib, n. a fall, a depth Dibaid, a. unceasing, incessant Dibaith, a. indistinct Diball, a. sure, infallible Dibara, a. not durable, short Dibarod, a. unprepared Dibarch, a void of respect Dibech, a. without sin, sinless Diben, a. headless, endless Dibenaeth, a. without a chief Diberchen, a. unpossessed Diberfedd, a. without entrails Diberthynas, a. irrelevant Diberygl, a. without danger Dibetrus, a. unhesitating Dibil, a. having no peel Dibl, n. a skirt; a daggle Diblaid, a. without party Diblant, a. childless Dible, n. skirts; daggles Dibleth, a. unplaited Diblaid, n. bedaggling Diblysg, a. without shell or husk Diblo, v. to daggle, to draggle Diblog, a. bedaggled Diblu, a. featherless, unfledged Diblwyf, a. having no parish Diblydd, a. not mellow or soft Diblyg, a. without a fold Dibobl, a without people Diboen, a. painless; unwearied Diboeth, a. without heat Diborth, a. helpless, unaided Dibr, n. a saddle Dibra, v. to put on a saddle Dibraidd, a. without flocks Dibrawf, a. without proof Dibres, a without copper Dibreswyl, a. having no abode Dibrid, a. priceless Dibridd, a. without earth Dibryn, a. unscanty, unscarce Dibrïod, a. unmarried Dibrudd, a. indiscreet Dibrwy, a. improvident Dibryd, a. inopportune Dibryder, a. without anxiety Dibryn, a. without purchase Dibrysur, a. not diligent Dibur, a. impure Dibwyll, a. senseless, witless Dibwys, a. not heavy, light Dibybyr, a. void of energy Dibyn, n. a steep, a hanging Dibynai, n. a pendulum Dibynaidd, a. pendulous Dibyniad, n.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

There remained, however, the comfort derived from knowing that a refuge lay at no great distance, and no doubt the appearance of a gunboat within the line of forts that had been built to keep out foreign fleets produced a considerable moral effect upon the general population, though desperadoes of the sort that assaulted the guard in July 1861 would certainly have been no whit deterred by any number of threatening [pg 64] men-of-war which could not reach them.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

he will not die a natural death.' CHAP.
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

These latter played euchre in the smoking room day and night, drank astonishing quantities of raw whisky without being in the least affected by it, and were the happiest people I think I ever saw.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Major Sleeman wrote forty or fifty years ago (the italics are mine): “I would here enter my humble protest against the quadrille and lunch parties which are sometimes given to European ladies and gentlemen of the station at this imperial tomb; drinking and dancing are no doubt very good things in their season, but they are sadly out of place in a sepulchre.”
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

TOAD’S ADVENTURES When Toad found himself immured in a dank and noisome dungeon, and knew that all the grim darkness of a medieval fortress lay between him and the outer world of sunshine and well-metalled high roads where he had lately been so happy, disporting himself as if he had bought up every road in England, he flung himself at full length on the floor, and shed bitter tears, and abandoned himself to dark despair.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

I judged by their voices that they were expressing their disappointment at not discovering Severus.
— from Jovinian: A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome by William Henry Giles Kingston

For no Indian of these regions ever dies a natural death.
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck

Dauvray, and no doubt had taken her levy from the impostors who preyed upon her credulous mistress—certainly she would hate this young and pretty outcast whom she has to wait upon, whose hair she has to dress.
— from At the Villa Rose by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

Marchez donc, au nom de Dieu, parceque j'ai oublie le mot Anglois—mais vous etes des braves gens, et me comprenez tres bien.'
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

"Go way, chile, dar ain' nobody dat 'ould want all dem ar critters," rejoined the old negress. "
— from The Romance of a Plain Man by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

He had undertaken the examination of the marriage-registers in all the parishes of Paris, and, as early as the following week, he discovered at Notre Dame des Lorettes the entry of the marriage of Euphrasie Taponnet with Frederic de Thaller.”
— from Other People's Money by Emile Gaboriau

He died a natural death in the Tower in September 1592.
— from Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 by Arthur Acheson

He utters loud sounds both by day and night, described by the Indians in their guttural voices as “quoth, quoth,” but occasionally becoming sharper and more like a bellow when he hears a distant cow.
— from The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston

The conversation dragged, then died a natural death; each was busy with his thoughts, and there was, moreover, an impressive and repressive something or other all around them.
— from Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Ernest Thompson Seton