She would have begged for death upon her knees rather than suffer this horror.

She begged for death; anything to dull forever the pain that she could not understand.

They savaged me until I begged for death.

There were stories of people he'd tricked into such terrible fates that they had begged for death but lived on.

And still the Prince lay upon his back; and still he shrieked and moaned and screamed in agony, and begged for death.

Nearly three years ago, Trella had rescued En-hedu from her brutal husband, who had beaten her so often that she begged for death.