stroke of death

Example Sentences

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Madeline's hands could not deck your bosom for the battle; though, in her own breast, she would receive the stroke of death to shield it.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various

Frequently the last stroke of death is not given by that ailment that has been threatening through life.

From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Clynton, Richard

Now a chance stroke of death put the presidency in the hands of one who represented this, the smallest, element in the coalition that overthrew Van Buren.

From Thomas Hart Benton by Roosevelt, Theodore

Or could esteem and love preserve our breath, And guard us longer from the stroke of death, The stroke of death on him had later fell, Whom all mankind esteem’d and lov’d so well.”

From Literary Byways by Andrews, William

Here, crowned at last, love never knows decay, Living through ages its one bridal day, Safe from the stroke of death!

From The Poems of Schiller — First period by Schiller, Friedrich