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“Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death.”

Made Two Death Mother Expression Months Died Two Months Mother Died

Book:Montana 1948: A Novel

Source: Montana 1948: A Novel

“Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house.”

Thinking Remember Death Mother Father House Rooms Our Father Think Of You Departed

Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“Come to the bridal-chamber, Death! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath! Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke!”

Feels Firsts Death Mother Born Cities First Time Breaths Blessed Broke Strokes Chamber Crowded Seals Pestilence Bridal Crowded Cities

Book:Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

Source: Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

“Death is the twin of love and mother of us all, she struggles equally for men and women and never accepts differences of caste or class. It's death that quickens us and brings us forth on sheets of love, clasped between sleep and wakefulness and barely breathing for a spell, and thus my death shall be like everybody else's death, as majestic and as pathetic as a king or a beggar's, neither more nor less.”

Men Death Mother Differences Sleep Accepting Class Struggle Kings Men And Women Breathing Spells Twins Sheets Pathetic Beggar Majestic Castes

Book:Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories

Source: Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories

“Gargantua, at the age of four hundred four score and forty- four years begat his son Pantagruel, from his wife, named Badebec, daughter of the King of the Amaurotes in Utopia, who died in child-birth: because he was marvelously huge and so heavy that he could not come to light without suffocating his mother.”

Years Children Light Age Death Mother Four Wife Son Huge Birth Kings Daughter Hundred Died Heavy Score Forty Four Years Utopia Suffocating Birth Of A Child

Author:Francois Rabelais