death angel

American  

noun

1. Azrael.

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Etymology

Origin of death angel

First recorded in 1785–95

Example Sentences

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

Who could know, when they gave themselves up to the grasp of this power, that he was not the very death angel himself in disguise, and would give them no earthly awakening forever?

From Four Girls at Chautauqua by Pansy

That mysterious shadow thrown by the wings of the approaching death angel settled on his face.

From The Kentucky Ranger by Curnick, Edward T.

Another twenty minutes,—hardly twenty-five,—and the death angel has gathered his sheaves of human hopes, as when the Royal George went down beneath the waters with its priceless value of human lives.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 by Various

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