death-cart

Asiatic cholera, when you might eat dinner with a well man in the evening, and the next morning, if you got up early enough, you would see him being hauled by your window in the death-cart.

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Does the reader wish to hear of the pest-houses, where death is the comforter — of the mournful passage of the death-cart — of the insensibility of the worthless, and the anguish of the loving heart — of harrowing shrieks and silence dire — of the variety of disease, desertion, famine, despair, and death?

The Last Man 2003

I had a high and splendid death-cart made, and wrapped him in a great hanging worked with lions.

The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962

Dame, already filled with winey purpose, pushed forward with a sudden bound towards their leaders and the death-cart, triumphing over their old enemies, the gendarmes, and preparing for every excess.

The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

Down the boulevards approach the multitude -- more distinct becomes the dirge -- more redly glare the torches -- and, amid all, more deeply rumble the wheels of the death-cart on the pavement!

Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg

Balkan War of 1907 a prime collection of horrors; corpses thrown into the death-cart with arms and legs sticking out like so much stubble; the death-cart creeping away with its ghastly load; and the dumping together of bodies of men and beasts into a pit to be eaten by the lime.

In the Claws of the German Eagle Albert Rhys Williams 1922

Asiatic cholera, when you might eat dinner with a well man in the evening, and the next morning, if you got up early enough, you would see him being hauled by your window in the death-cart.

The Scarlet Plague 1912

I wonder did the phrase cross his mind that day four years later when himself he rode in the death-cart to the Greve.

Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

In the street below, among a vociferating crowd of all sorts and conditions, the black death-cart moved on its way to the guillotine.

The Trampling of the Lilies Rafael Sabatini 1912

The death-cart, with its load of victims, is seen in the foreground -- the entrance to the garden with the palace of the

Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Paul Kauvar; or, Anarchy Steele Mackaye 1906