stroke of death

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That he by sudden stroke of death should lay Camilla low,— He granted this: that his high house should see his safe return, He granted not: the hurrying gusts that word to breezes turn.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William

All men must bear what chance or fate may bring, The sudden peril and the stroke of death; But shall the ruler of the world attempt The raging ocean?

From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan

At the moment of transformation, Hamet was seized with a sudden languor, and his faculties were suspended as by the stroke of death.

From Almoran and Hamet by Hawkesworth, John

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

Suddenly the sky seemed to be covered with blackness, and the joy in my heart died out as by the stroke of death.

From In the Valley by Frederic, Harold