relinquish life
Example Sentences
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When pursued by an invincible force they would relinquish life rather than their booty, even when the plunder was of a kind totally valueless in their savage homes.
From The Empire of Russia by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
For them he should be prepared to relinquish life with all its blessings.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
No man in soundness of body and of mind can voluntarily give himself to die without seeing clearly other possibilities, and without feeling it to be a hard and painful thing to relinquish life.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Dods, Marcus
