stroke of death

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The occasion I will communicate to you by-and-by: for nothing but the flutters given by the stroke of death could divert my first attention from the sad and solemn contents of your last favour.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Richardson, Samuel

But say, great bassa, why the sultan's anger, Burning in vain, delays 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

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

From An Antarctic Mystery by Hoey, Frances Cashel

In the space of a few months how many have perished under the stroke of death!

From The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, January, 1835 by Wightman, George

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