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on pain of death |
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on/under pain of death (formal) if you are told to do something on pain of death, you will be killed if you do not do it They had been told to leave their homes by noon on pain of death. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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They choose a king, whom they call Lubo: every eighth year they carry their wives with them, and expose their children without any tenderness in the woods, it being prohibited, on pain of death, to take any care of those which are born in the camp. Charles Evremonde, called Darnay, was accused by the public prosecutor as an emigrant, whose life was forfeit to the Republic, under the decree which banished all emigrants on pain of Death. The bride's brother at her entreaty was released, but bidden not to return to the church that day or interfere with his sister again on pain of death. |
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