Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The agony or struggle which sometimes immediately precedes death.

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Examples

  • To those of us old enough to remember the long death-agony of the Major government, this is pretty sweet...

    How refreshing to be in a win/win situation 2008

  • Now Aegisthus was examining the entrails, separating them in his hands, and as he was bending down, thy brother rose on tiptoe and smote him on the spine, severing the bones of his back; and his body gave one convulsive shudder from head to foot and writhed in the death-agony.

    Electra 2008

  • Pie found him in the death-agony, but still able to speak.

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • Now Aegisthus was examining the entrails, separating them in his hands, and as he was bending down, thy brother rose on tiptoe and smote him on the spine, severing the bones of his back; and his body gave one convulsive shudder from head to foot and writhed in the death-agony.

    Electra 2008

  • This neglect for a woman of refined taste, who clung so persistently to the graces of life, meant the beginning of the death-agony.

    La Grenadiere 2007

  • This neglect for a woman of refined taste, who clung so persistently to the graces of life, meant the beginning of the death-agony.

    La Grenadiere 2007

  • A purpled explosion flashed past him, so close that he could sense the death-agony.

    Soarer's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006

  • Montgomery, and holding him, fell headlong beside him and pulled him sprawling upon itself in its death-agony.

    The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006

  • It looked very clean and comfortable, but a woman in the last death-agony was unattended.

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • From such another spectacle of death-agony and brilliancy may the fates protect us!

    Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

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