stroke of death
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Then call it not our cruelty, nor crime; Deem us not deaf to woe, nor blind to beauty, That, thus constrain'd, we speed the stroke of death.
From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel
Those whom God has loved peculiarly have not been exempted from the stroke of death.
From Catharine by Adams, Nehemiah
Let us not despair, though we may weep over the companions of our pilgrimage, slain at our side by the irresistible stroke of death.
From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Cox, Francis Augustus
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
Bacon, if he was the author of An Essay on Death, says, 'I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.'
From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
