Death Throe

Word DEATH THROE
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They say that in his death-throe he arose and facing some great, ghostly choir raised his last baton, while all around the massive silence rang with the last mist-music of his dying ears. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

One more great writhe and wallow she gave, that ground the spear butt upon the rock; but it was her death-throe. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)

I looked up; but Diokles was watching the death-throe, leaning easily on his spear. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)

A dismal shriek, the utterance of agony and terror, rose from the barbarian's lips; and then came the sound of his footsteps, as he darted, with a cry still wilder, into the forest, pursued by the sound of other steps; and then all again was silent, -- all save groans, and the rustling in the grass of limbs convulsed in the death-throe at the soldier's side. ❋ Robert M. Bird (N/A)

More than one stretched back upon the meagre pillow, was in her death-throe groping in the air, with glazed eyes rolled upward to the ceiling, while the under jaw dropped lower, lower, leaving the mouth half open never to be closed again, save by a penitentiary nurse. ❋ Ann S. Stephens (N/A)

M. de Meaux, a friend of the family, read the prayers for the dying, to which the Duchess made response, and three minutes before the final death-throe, she consented to let him preach a funeral sermon in eulogy of herself and her husband. ❋ Various (N/A)

Just before the lifeboat approached, as if in a death-throe, the ship reeled inwards, and her tottering masts leaned to port, or towards the lifeboat and against the wind -- thus adding great peril to the work of rescue. ❋ Thomas Stanley Treanor (N/A)

The two Things met -- the one untouched and the other in its death-throe -- male and female, we said, the female coming to the male. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

Page 87 years of blood and tears, of fire and sword, was at last convulsed in its last death-throe. ❋ James Lindsay Smith (1881)

His struggles were very terrible, but with my weight upon his lower limbs, and my grasp upon his windpipe, that death-throe was as silent as it was horrible. ❋ Robert Cromie (1881)

Giving my life for thy life, and breathing thine air in the death-throe; ❋ Jos�� Rizal (1878)

Then a change came over him, and the pain of the poison and the passion of the death-throe, and he was wistful of her no more; but she lay by him, embracing him, and in the last violence of his anguish he hugged her to his breast. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

As hands in a death-throe, and beat him to the earth -- ❋ Isabella Valancy Crawford (1868)

A shriek, the most wild, shrill and unearthly that ever came from the death-throe of a breaking heart, arose upon the air, and echoed through the woods, and the widow sunk, fainting, to the ground. ❋ Mary Jane Holmes (1866)

And through that greatness of his he endured a double agony: not only the reviling, and the torture, and the death-throe, but the agony of sinking from the vision of glorious achievement into that deep shadow where he could only say, "I count as nothing: darkness encompasses me: yet the light I saw was the true light." ❋ George Eliot (1849)

He thought he heard the gurgle and the death-throe. ❋ John Roby (1821)

"Ods sneckens!" said the brute, "but this 'ere murdered man is throttling my Mister in his death-throe." ❋ Edward Howard (1820)

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