agonising death

The injured suffered and died agonising deaths because there was nobody to help them.

One sting was fatal, an agonising death, a screaming fit that would last until the end came.

Gabriel died an agonising death on the back of a cart on his way to London.

Animal lovers are hoping the law is changed before too many other creatures suffer agonising deaths.

The disease leads to convuclsions and an agonising death.

Kate is forced to shoot her husband dead with the shotgun, to spare him a slow and agonising death.

A vet told Stroud magistrates the birds died a slow agonising death.

Philip became ill with the plague, a disease that all but inevitably promised a swift and agonising death.

Spears faced a long, filthy, agonising death.

Every year, countless agonising deaths occur through the pollution of rivers from factories or oil spillages at sea.

A ministry of mushrooms might be going too far - but an interest that goes a beyond reading macabre tales of agonising death is not.

Zach's father was unable to shoot his wife out of mercy and instead took his own life, leading to a more agonising death for her.

His executioner promises to strangle him rather than let him suffer the agonising death by fire that he would otherwise experience.

It's a magical place with a tragic story: Cecilia was condemned to a slow, agonising death for confessing her Christian beliefs.

The EU should have been vocal in condemning pharmaceutical giants who look on as people die an agonising death as a result of patents.

He'd bought us some time, I noted with gratitude, the inferno blocking us off from our assailants, and consigning many of them to an agonising death.

Foxes have thick pelts and many a fox has died from gangrene caused by shotgun pellets; again a slow and agonising death.

She claimed the King had left a suicide note for his father, saying he wanted to die because he had cancer and could not face an agonising death.

It has been suggested in recent years that Clark's treatment of Keats contributed to the poet's agonising death from tuberculosis in February 1821.

Adam's dragoons assault Azya's chambul and, capturing him, give him an agonising death by drawing him on a sharpened stake.

Their agonising death for the faith would hasten the coming of Christ: the martyrs were soldiers of God engaged in a battle with the forces of evil.

We now had a name for the girl with purple hair, and that would lead to other names, dozens of them, one of whom might hold the key to eight agonising deaths.

Ieyasu had goaded the young Shogun beyond endurance, and the old fox had done so deliberately in order to avoid a slower and more agonising death by torture.

A paracetamol overdose would more likely result in an agonising death as you turned yellow and your liver packed in up to a week after you regretted taking it.

None of the interest groups seem to consider the badger itself, which, when infected with bovine TB, suffers a protracted and agonising death while spreading the infectious bacillus.