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destroying angel
noun
- any of several deadly poisonous mushrooms of the genus Amanita, having a white cap and stem, white spores, and a conspicuous volva at the base of the stem.
destroying angel
noun
- a white slender very poisonous basidiomycetous toadstool, Amanita virosa, having a pronounced volva, frilled, shaggy stalk, and sickly smell
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Dissension, that destroying angel of great enterprises, was busy in the Christian camp.
One sprang up in the footsteps of that destroying angel, Dynamite.
Upon this face thy name is inscribed in the convulsions of death, and will be registered by the destroying angel!
Beware of selfish purpose, revenge, hate; these are the Destroying Angel, sure to return to you.
But now they had a part to act or they would suffer with the Egyptians when the destroying angel should pass through the land.
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