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.

See also: death, pain

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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. A Voyage to Abyssinia by Lobo, Father View in context 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. A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context 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. Robin Hood by McSpadden, J. Walker View in context More results

? References in classic literature

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.

A Voyage to Abyssinia by Lobo, Father View in context

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.

A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context

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.

Robin Hood by McSpadden, J. Walker View in context

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