"Die out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a dead end. The offspring are haploids and they're sterile. The line would die out ...
— The Lani People • J. F. Bone
... in North America to herd in the Gulf States. Their dress, their food and their ways were those of dwellers on shores out of reach of frost and snow. Though of stout and robust figure, they are almost always weak in the chest and throat. Should the Maoris die out, the medical verdict might be summed up in the one ...
— The Long White Cloud • William Pember Reeves
... Zeeland one fourth; the chambers of the Meuse, namely, Delft, Rotterdam, and the north quarter; that is to say, Hoorn and Enkhuizen, each a sixteenth. All the chambers were to be governed by the directors then serving, who however were to be allowed to die out, down to the number of twenty for Amsterdam, twelve for Zeeland, and seven for each of the other chambers. To fill a vacancy occurring among the directors, the remaining members of the board were to nominate three candidates, from whom the estates of the province should choose one. ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... Only natural—the penalty one has to pay for success. It will die out most likely; meantime, we will mind it as ...
— John Halifax, Gentleman • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... is to "stand and wait" all their days. But it was not now in the absolute darkness and silence which it used to be. She knew that in all human probability Robert Roy was alive still some where, and hope never could wholly die out of the world so long as he was in it. His career, too, if not prosperous in worldly things, had been one to make any heart that loved him content—content and proud. For if he had failed in his fortunes, was it ...
— The Laurel Bush • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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