She would have been ready to die with shame.—G. Eliot.
I am positively dying with hunger.—Scott.
I thought the two Miss Flamboroughs would have died with laughing.—Goldsmith.
I wish that the happiest here may not die with envy.—Pope.
"Die for." (in behalf of).
Take thought and die for Cæsar.—Shakespeare.
One of them said he would die for her.—Goldsmith.
It is a man of quality who dies for her.—Addison.
"Die for." (because of).
Who, as Cervantes informs us, died for love of the fair Marcella.—Fielding.