a-dying

We're doomed yet again, for a variety of reasons, but we do seem to be taking our sweet time a-dying.

Archive 2009-12-01 2009

We're doomed yet again, for a variety of reasons, but we do seem to be taking our sweet time a-dying.

The decline of the West 2009

Drink-sodden Scots who die in their fifties and sixties are a considerable saving to the exchequer since they don't live to collect their pensions or clog up doctors 'waiting rooms or take an unconscienable time a-dying and costing the rest of us billions.

Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

Drink-sodden Scots who die in their fifties and sixties are a considerable saving to the exchequer since they don't live to collect their pensions or clog up doctors 'waiting rooms or take an unconscienable time a-dying and costing the rest of us billions.

Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

The rump of that empire lingered, taking a long time a-dying, another couple of years before it finally expired.

The Bear is Back 2007

The rump of that empire lingered, taking a long time a-dying, another couple of years before it finally expired.

Archive 2007-07-15 2007

Woe, woe! rend the cheek; like a swan with clear loud note beside the brimming river calling to its parent dear that lies a-dying in the meshes of the crafty net, so I bewail thee, my hapless sire,

Electra 2008

Woe, woe! rend the cheek; like a swan with clear loud note beside the brimming river calling to its parent dear that lies a-dying in the meshes of the crafty net, so I bewail thee, my hapless sire,

Electra 2008

And as it fell, the traitors had been set to watch while the others slept; and sleeping the caitiffs found them, and slew the said men-at-arms at once, but bound Hugh to a tree that he might be the longer a-dying; since none looked for any but their own folk to pass by that way.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

I will teach a trick to know it: give out you lie a-dying, and if you hear the common people curse you, be sure you are taken for one of the prime night-caps. 28

The Duchess of Malfi 2007