Talk:over my dead body
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Mihia in topic First use
First use
edit- 1698 The Saints Convoy to Heaven. A Discourse [on Luke Xvi. 22 Occasioned by ... the Death ... of Mr. D. Lindsey, who Deceased, the 21st of February, 1697] page 54
- nor fo much as pity my Cafe; and tho' they are weeping over my dead Body, yet they do not Mourn because of the Misery that I am in, when they imagine I am on the Way to Happirefs, tho I find, I know , I am fure I aan on the Road that leadeth
Although not in the sense of 'never', just literal. ScratchMarshall (talk) 19:33, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
Another quotation presently lacking a home:
- 1831 The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats page 211
- SCENE V. To these enter MAcDonald, and DEVEREUx, with the HALBERDIERs. Gordon (throwing himself between him and them). . No, monster! First over my dead body thou shalt tread.
- 1831 The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats page 211