death angel
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of death angel
First recorded in 1785–95
Example Sentences
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He lay in the stilly silence Of a quiet, darkened room, Feeling that the dread death angel Stands in the gathering gloom.
From Verses and Rhymes By the Way by Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall
And she said the same of you when, as I would swear, you were in the fell clutches of the death angel himself.”
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
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
Cherry's little bedroom under the roof was bright with the confusion of cheap finery scattered everywhere and swept aside at the sudden entrance of the death angel.
From The City of Fire by Grace Livingston Hill
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
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