At a dead run, and over the railing, in preference to being boiled alive.

Surgeons who do not boil their instruments will be boiled alive.

I'd give him up if he was to be boiled alive.

He still looked as though he'd been boiled alive, but it was an improvement.

Silence would have shivered, had he not been boiling alive in his own sweat.

I showed them what it might feel like to be boiled alive.

That was all they had had to complain about in the first place: being boiled alive.

The last thing I need is to test the old story about slowly boiling alive.

Everybody got a lobster which had been boiled alive.

He was executed on August 24 along with his whole family by being boiled alive.