die in harness
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As independent as he is softspoken, Bruce Rogers prefers to die in harness rather than cash in on purely commercial work.
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The press never played up Claude Swanson's illness because the press knew he would die in harness.
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Newsgathering is a tough job and Karl Bickel was determined not to die in harness.
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He did not, as we might have expected he would, die in harness on the battle-field, but of dropsy, at the age of fifty-four.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
He acted in the spirit of his father's advice,—"If you must die, die in harness."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 by Various
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