I am obliged to you for hastening his demise.
"The Gray Phantom's Return"
Herman Landon
Ingeborg was transformed in his eyes with gratifying rapidity into a sister-a gentle maiden sister who on the demise of his wife had taken over the housekeeping; and when in the evenings he bade her a kind good-night he found himself doing it quite naturally on her forehead.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
Her half-sisters and their mother, with whom Bakuma shared the hut, fled to another and were exorcised by the wizard, which, as everybody knows, is an expensive ceremony; gourds and pots, spoons and utensils of all sorts, were left to the sole use of the unclean one and would be burned upon her demise.
"Witch-Doctors"
Charles Beadle