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

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

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 Watkins, Sam R.

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

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 Taylor, Robert L.

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