stroke of death

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But, would you save me from the stroke of death, If you would not behold your daughter, stretch'd, A poor pale corse, and breathless at your feet, Oh, step between me and this cruel mandate!

From The Count of Narbonne A Tragedy, in Five Acts by Jephson, Robert

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

And was not this last the worst blow—must it not prove the stroke of death?

From An Antarctic Mystery by Hoey, Frances Cashel

Those whom God has loved peculiarly have not been exempted from the stroke of death.

From Catharine by Adams, Nehemiah

A sadness hangs over the little company, for since their arrival the stroke of death has more than once fallen; we find in Bradford's brief record that by the 24th of December six had died.

From Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England by Stowe, Harriet Beecher