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

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

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 Willard W. Glazier

Then the death angel comes close to the clergyman and his wife, hovering over their only child, and at last the barrier of formalism and prejudice and religious bigotry is swept away from their minds.

From Björnstjerne Björnson, 1832-1910 by William Morton Payne

She fancied that a dark wing brushed by the carriage window, as if the death angel were flying by with the cup of wormwood of which Freyer had once spoken!

From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern

The dreadful panic that checks the progress of civilization and paralyzes the commerce of the world, is the death angel that follows speculation.

From Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales by Robert L. Taylor