death angel

American  

noun

1. Azrael.

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Etymology

Origin of death angel

First recorded in 1785–95

Example Sentences

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death angel

The death angel is generally met with more calmness by the dying than by surviving friends.

From Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Moodie, Susanna

Nor was he the only one of our little military household above whom gloomed the shadow of the death angel, and who might almost have heard "the beating of his wings."

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales by Bierce, Ambrose

Like mountains the billows tremendously swell;      In vain the lost wretch calls on Mercy to save;    Unseen hands of spirits are ringing his knell,      And the death angel flaps his broad wings o'er the wave!

From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes

Did you see the death angel, think you? people always do before the funeral.'

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm

Oh! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the death angel touches those swift keys!

From Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel by Glazier, Willard W.