dyings

It is distressing to think about, but as individual dyings, the important thing is what happens with the whole that my species is but a part of.

Eight Months Into a new Administration -- What's Next? 2009

The dyings-out of families of this social rank do indeed pass unnoticed by anyone, but in them are repeated the same sorrowful outlines that characterize the more exalted cases.

Archive 2009-05-01 David McDuff 2009

Between them, the women gathered in celebration had centuries of dyings and risings in Christ.

Column: Leaps of Faith Michelle 2009

Between them, the women gathered in celebration had centuries of dyings and risings in Christ.

Archive 2009-09-01 Michelle 2009

He admits that there have been "great reverses, contractions and dyings."

The Road to Meltdown 2008

October 7, 2009 at 5:57 am whut? wy shud we cares? others peepl are dyings too! cans u list all teh airaqi doods taht dieds too?

HEY!!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Consider Christopher Hitchens' blind salamanders: Humans are almost programmed to think in terms of progress and of gradual yet upward curves, even when confronted with evidence that the past includes as many great dyings out of species as it does examples of the burgeoning of them.

Savage autism. Ann Althouse 2008

And this is one of these great dyings, when certain species actually are obliterated by a radical change in the economic climate.

CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2008 2008

They nourished each other between casual killings, they dreamed, they loved, they raised families, they got old too soon, and they died, often among friends, as opposed to the sterile dyings in the Medical Centers, no matter how long postponed, ignored by everyone except those paid to administer the medical last rites.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

And it is sayd that thereabout they haue plenty of Anile, and that they occupy that, and also that they vse there in their dyings, of the Saffron aforesayd.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003