death-flurry

"It is the death-flurry," said the Ancient Mariner softly.

CHAPTER XV 2010

"It is the death-flurry," said the Ancient Mariner softly.

Chapter 15 1917

"Well," said the boy, "isn't it true that the only time a whale-boat is smashed up is when the monster threshes around in the death-flurry and happens to hit the boat with his tail?"

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

This was not its death-flurry; for, gaining strength before any more harpoons or lances could be struck into it, away it went again, heading towards the ice.

Peter the Whaler William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

He is now in the death-flurry, spinning round and round, and lashing the sea into foam with his broad tail.

The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844

At length, however, the nearest English ship observed him, and probably guessed his object; for the marines on her poop fired a close volley at him, and a scream of rage and despair from his messmates arose, when they beheld him wildly throw up his left arm in unmistakable agony, and flounder in what appeared his death-flurry.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 Various 1836

Now I saw the lines flying out of the boat at a rapid rate, as the animal sounded; now the men in the boats hauled it in again, as the whale rose once more to the surface; now they pulled on, and two more deadly harpoons were plunged into its sides, with several spears; now they backed to avoid the lashing strokes of its powerful tail; now the creature was seen to be in its death-flurry, tumbling about and turning over and over in its agony.

Tales of the Sea And of our Jack Tars William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Now I saw the lines flying out of the boat at a rapid rate, as the animal sounded; now the men in the boats hauled it in again, as the whale rose once more to the surface; now they pulled on, and two more deadly harpoons were plunged into its sides, with several spears; now they backed to avoid the lashing strokes of its powerful tail; now the creature was seen to be in its death-flurry, tumbling about and turning over and over in its agony.

Happy Jack and other Tales of the Sea William Henry Giles Kingston 1847