The traitor's eyes gave no quarter, even as life fled from them.
Without the Paramage all life might have fled this soul long ago.
The colors were still there, but the life, the movement, had fled.
Then he saw the man's head turn slowly from side to side; life had not fled.
When I reached him, it was evident that the king's life had fled.
He coughed again, then his body shook with a great spasm and life fled him.
Even as life fled from him, his assassin's mind could not help but admire the ploy.
The skin that life has fled is calm as marble.
Even then, she might have to be pried from his fingers as the life fled his body.
The sword retreated and he fell to the ground, twitching as life fled from his body.