death angel

American  

noun

1. Azrael.

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Etymology

Origin of death angel

First recorded in 1785–95

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death angel

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 William Holmes McGuffey

I could almost hear the shriek of the death angel passing over the scene.

From "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show by Sam R. Watkins

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 Ambrose Bierce

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

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

The wing of the death angel touches him.

From "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show by Sam R. Watkins

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