expiring

Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, “O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.”

The expiring Lion said, “I have reluctantly brooked the insults of the brave, but to be compelled to endure such treatment from thee, a disgrace to Nature, is indeed to die a double death.”

The Hare was comforted in her death, and expiring said, “Ah!

I felt for it, found it, twisted it up together, and putting it into the expiring flame, set light to it.