death-lot

Updated: May 18, 2025

Wretched beings crawled to die under our succouring roof; the inhabitants of the Castle decreased daily, while the survivors huddled together in fear, and, as in a famine-struck boat, the sport of the wild, interminable waves, each looked in the other's face, to guess on whom the death-lot would next fall.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - The Last Man

And now the world-wide conquerors shrunk and feared For fatherland and home The lance to raise; and 'mongst those false to Rome The death-lot rolled, and still they shrunk and feared; And still be mourned And cried aloud in anguish "Varus! Varus! Give back my legions, Varus!" Winfield the probable site of the "Herrmanschladt. See SUPRA. Augustus was worshipped as a deity in his lifetime.

Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo