death angel

noun

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First recorded in 1785–95

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Nearly every home has at some time had a call from the death angel.

Little did he know of the death-angel that walks hand-in-hand with a superstition as antique as Mount Ararat.

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

The soft wailing of the night-zephyr seemed to warn him that the death-angel was approaching every moment.

And above them, laden with poppy and with laurels, floats the Death Angel pointing out the way.

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