death-cry

Then there was no immortality, and Bert, wild and crazy Bert, falling at her front gate with his foolish death-cry, was right.

CHAPTER XV 2010

Sometimes, when a soft southland dog went down, shrieking its death-cry under the fangs of the pack, this man would be unable to contain himself, and would leap into the air and cry out with delight.

The Mad God 2010

 Deafened by the pain of his loss, he did not hear the cries and shouts and gasps of the onlookers and his fellow victims; instead, over and over the shearing sound of the Chevy's assault screeched through his soul like the death-cry of Erichthonius.

Another Metamorphosis: A Moral Tale about Obsession 2010

No deer ever bounded with a wilder start at the voice of Roswal than did Sir Kenneth at what he feared was the death-cry of that noble hound, from whom no ordinary injury could have extracted even the slightest acknowledgment of pain.

The Talisman 2008

A death-cry on darkened stairs was nothing unusual.

The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

A death-cry on darkened stairs was nothing unusual.

Rogues In The House Howard, Robert E. 2003

“Five thousand” was the death-cry of his pecuniary suicide.

No Name 2003

A death-cry on darkened stairs was nothing unusual.

The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

The elder Cato, a master in the matters of tillage and slaves, was amazed at it ninety-two years later, and the death-cry which he repeated continually at Rome was but the exclamation of jealous greed.

Salammbo 2003

So different from the beak-like friction of Aphrodite of the foam, the friction which flares out in circles of phosphorescent ecstasy, to the last wild spasm which utters the involuntary cry, like a death-cry, the final love-cry.

The Plumed Serpent 2003