1 It seemed that Nature could not be quite ready to kill him.
2 The youth, forgetting his neat plan of getting killed, gazed spell bound.
3 The captain of the youth's company had been killed in an early part of the action.
4 Or, perhaps, they thought it would be too ironical to get killed at the portals of safety.
5 Once he thought he had concluded that it would be better to get killed directly and end his troubles.
6 It's a pity old Grandpa Henderson got killed yestirday--he'd have known that we did our best and fought good.
7 They must not all be killed like pigs; and he was sure it would come to pass unless they were informed of these dangers.
8 It was perhaps that they dreaded to be killed in insignificant ways after the times for proper military deaths had passed.
9 They might have been killed by lucky chances, he said, before they had had opportunities to flee or before they had been really tested.
10 Regarding death thus out of the corner of his eye, he conceived it to be nothing but rest, and he was filled with a momentary astonishment that he should have made an extraordinary commotion over the mere matter of getting killed.
11 Swift pictures of himself, apart, yet in himself, came to him--a blue desperate figure leading lurid charges with one knee forward and a broken blade high--a blue, determined figure standing before a crimson and steel assault, getting calmly killed on a high place before the eyes of all.