We have heard of trances, catalepsies, which simulate death so closely that even physicians are deceived.

Still I cannot, with any certainty, assert why they should all three choose to simulate death.

This condition, combined with unconsciousness and paralysis of all the voluntary muscles, may very closely simulate death.

Where his hat had rolled to, when he tumbled out of the saddle to simulate death, he had no idea.

I would say to you, if you will excuse the triviality of the comparison, imitate those feeble insects who simulate death when they are touched.

I have seen it done, and I have done it myself-not ,ofcourse, to the point of death, but so far as to simulate death.

The Fijians have a drastic and repulsive way of simulating death.

Simulating death is the one thing that games love to do.

To see bedbugs simulating death, foretells unhappiness caused by illness.

Others survived by burying themselves in mud, simulating death, waiting for the return of rain.

Saint Augustin knew of a priest named Rutilut who had the power of voluntarily simulating death.

Paris consented to this terror, renounced the right to have the last word, went to bed and simulated death.

The people were simulating death!

"You must simulate death," he explained, "while I carry you from the camp.

The man, who had been simulating death, hoping so to escape, regarded De Lacy with a frown and in sullen silence.

Two days later he entered a lethargic condition simulating death, and was again on his way to the sepulcher, when he once more recovered.