deathblow

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The Axis deathblows had been delivered by German forces which crushed the Third Yugoslav Army at Kachanik Pass, and by Italians who poured down the Adriatic Coast.

From Time Magazine Archive

The saga of the deathblows inflicted upon Sakharov and his subsequent resurrection reads like a gripping secular sequel to the Russian Orthodox Lives of the Saints.

From Time Magazine Archive

There's more adventure, more scrapes by villany, dangers and deathblows generally, in the last twenty-two years of my life—I am now thirty-six—than in all the Monte Cristos that ever were written.

From That Boy Of Norcott's by Lever, Charles James