death angel

American  

noun

1. Azrael.

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Etymology

Origin of death angel

First recorded in 1785–95

Example Sentences

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 Watkins, Sam R.

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 Payne, William Morton

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