1 My eye sought Helen, and feared to find death.
2 And then, nobody need to have a quieter death nor he had.
3 And there was the silence of death about it: the solitude of a lonesome wild.
4 I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.
5 , shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
6 I want a wife: the sole helpmeet I can influence efficiently in life, and retain absolutely till death.
7 Divine justice pursued its course; disasters came thick on me: I was forced to pass through the valley of the shadow of death.
8 He had been called away by the sudden death of his father: he was at Marsh End now, and would very likely stay there a fortnight longer.
9 Again the poor man groaned; he looked as if he dared not move; fear, either of death or of something else, appeared almost to paralyse him.
10 In my hand I held the tract containing the sudden death of the Liar, to which narrative my attention had been pointed as to an appropriate warning.
11 Providence has blessed my endeavours to secure a competency; and as I am unmarried and childless, I wish to adopt her during my life, and bequeath her at my death whatever I may have to leave.
12 You would think him gentle, yet in some things he is inexorable as death; and the worst of it is, my conscience will hardly permit me to dissuade him from his severe decision: certainly, I cannot for a moment blame him for it.
13 While disease had thus become an inhabitant of Lowood, and death its frequent visitor; while there was gloom and fear within its walls; while its rooms and passages steamed with hospital smells, the drug and the pastille striving vainly to overcome the effluvia of mortality, that bright May shone unclouded over the bold hills and beautiful woodland out of doors.