death-note

The pack, rushing in upon their disabled enemy, soon ended his painful struggles, and solemnised his fall with their clamour; the hunters, with their horns and voices, whooping and blowing a mort, or death-note, which resounded far over the billows of the adjacent ocean.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

Men die daily — not a bell tolls the hour but it is the death-note of some one or other; and why hesitate to shorten the span of others, or take over-anxious care to prolong our own?

Old Mortality 2004

Just as he spoke, the horns again poured on her ear the melancholy yet wild strain of the mort, or death-note, and she awoke.

Kenilworth 2004

I knew -- oh, well I knew it was the death-note of my gallant pet.

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

The croak of agony that came out of her may have held the death-note for Mispoon, her mate; for he rose on his wings, poised himself for an instant, and launched himself at the she-wolf's back with a force that drove Maheegun off her feet.

Nomads of the North James Oliver Curwood 1903

A vast cloud of smoke, through which shot millions of sparks, trailed and eddied above it, while, with the hoarse voice of escaping steam, the blazing craft sounded its own death-note.

Raftmates A Story of the Great River Kirk Munroe 1890

I knew -- oh, well I knew it was the death-note of my gallant pet.

Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier Charles King 1888

Never again woke the old battle-glow when the bullets their death-note shrilled.

Dreams and Days: Poems George Parsons Lathrop 1874

Falconet struck the death-note of the plastic arts when he said, "Our marbles have _almost_ colour."

Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

The moment the last-mentioned song was ended, almost before its death-note had left the lips of the singer, one of the friends 'friends was on his feet.

Weighed and Wanting George MacDonald 1864