The extremely abrupt death of his brother had never been satisfactorily explained.

Emperor Shenzong died in 1085, an abrupt death since he was in his mid 30s.

The furious question died an abrupt death as the hatch slid fully open.

It tells the story of a young pair of siblings seeking to find a new life following the abrupt death of their mother.

Galberry only served for two years before an abrupt death but he was able to lay down the cornerstone of the original cathedral.

She was bewildered by her abrupt death, though it had been suicide.

He served as president from the granting of independence in 1946 until his abrupt death in 1948.

His abrupt death has shaken that confidence, plunging the university into grief and creating considerable uncertainty about its financial future.

"He was my father," Holbrooke says, when asked how the abrupt death affected him.

After her abrupt death on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, Don took up golf at 57.