death-damp

But storm or shelter was all the same to her now, and the death-damp on her brow was colder than the pelting shower.

Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

"I will, I will!" said the young girl, wiping the death-damp from her forehead.

Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern

He came when darkness curtained the hills, and the tempest was abroad in its anger `; when the plow stood still in the field of promise, and briers cumbered the garden of beauty `; when fathers were dying, and mothers were weeping over them `; when the wife was binding up the gashed bosom of her husband, and the maiden was wiping the death-damp from the brow of her lover `.

Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Charles W. Sanders

Donna's hot tears fell fast on his face as she leaned over and kissed the death-damp from his brow.

The Long Chance 1918

We stand upon our own grave, with our death fire, the sun, on our right hand, and our death-damp, the moon, on our left.

Fantasia of the Unconscious 1907

You stand with haunting eyes and death-damp hair, 10

0 1439. Sorrow by Katrina Trask. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900 1900

--- From the time that the mother binds the child's head, till the moment that some kind assistant wipes the death-damp from the brow of the dying, we cannot exist without mutual help.

The Black Dwarf 1898

The "death-damp" on her brow; the "death-rattle" in her throat; the chin dropped, and no pulse at the wrist.

The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology 1877

She described a vapor emanating from the body, as the "death-damp" increased, and outer "awareness" failed.

The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology 1877

He slept, but his breath grew short, and unequal; and as she wiped the moisture on his brow, she knew it was the death-damp.

The Heir of Redclyffe Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862