But love can leave more death in its track than the most ardent hatred.

Where were all those young hopefuls, who even in their crippled state had left death behind them and saw nothing but a future?

Tomorrow I would sneak away like a plague rat, leaving only death in my wake.

If he picked up his weapons now and strode away into the darkness, it would be easy to leave certain death behind him.

They all had too great an interest in the succession to estates to leave death to itself.

Just to leave death waiting and walk off, never knowing who was to be the recipient of the deadly favor.

This contrast can also have the allegorical meaning of Jesus leaving sin and death behind his shoulders.

Life on Winter is hard to live, and people there generally leave death to nature or to anger, not to law.

Taking what we want and leaving only death in our wake?

Departing unscathed, he had left death lying in his wake.