Meanings of merite death in английском

All the Alexandrians, he said, had in fact merited death.

How have I merited death here from the Huns?

The slightest offence, viewed in this light, merited death; and the gravest could incur no heavier penalty.

When he saw his error, he felt that he merited death, and expiated his fault by self-destruction.

He has performed an act, by which he has well merited death, and he knows his guilt is discovered.

Brother, you have merited death!

Such was the merited death of Calig'ula, in the 29th year of his age, after a short reign of not four years.

Every one-markme-every one has merited death who has broken the laws of hospitality, that hospitality which this lying city offered me.

But the son of Tydeus, and Odysseus, whom Sisyphos, I have heard, sold to Laertes, they who merited death are still alive.

Many a one has richly merited death for many other sins, than that isolated, haply accidental one which he has hanged for.

I, too, have merited death! exclaimed the agitated George, burying his face in Shirley's bosom, and giving way to a fresh burst of grief.

Perhaps they merited death these men-they served with the most bloody-handedand merciless pirate gang in the South China Sea, which probably meant the world.