death-angel

When you lose the past you're naked in front of contemptuous Azraeel, the death-angel.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

Everywhere her coming had been welcomed; in many instances, eyes dimmed by the shadow of the wings of the death-angel, saw in her the wife or mother, for whose coming they had longed and died, with the hallowed word "mother" on their lips.

Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience Mary C. Vaughan

The death-angel was there to gather its last harvest.

"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins

The death-angel shrieks and laughs and old Father Time is busy with his sickle, as he gathers in the last harvest of death, crying, More, more, more! while his rapacious maw is glutted with the slain.

"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins

It was not nearly daybreak, and we felt that the death-angel was drawing very near.

Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary W. P. Livingstone

Deborah entered that silent room and found the death-angel casting his dread shadow there.

Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life Grace Beaumont

Would you take the offer, verbally made by the death-angel?

Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

Over many a noble fellow, on the bloody fields of Shiloh and Antietam and Stone River, the wings of the death-angel have fallen; at many a hearthstone there is mourning for the brave that are dead on the field of honor -- though it is a royal sorrow, and a proud light gleams through the fast-falling tears.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

And the death-angel flaps his broad wings o'er the wave!

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 Charles Herbert Sylvester

When the stern death-angel seized him and bore him to the skies!

The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various