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A thousand death-winged messengers like fiery meteors fly:
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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"In the very glee of war," sending death-winged bolts tearing and crushing through them.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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Pennsylvanian Congress gather; and ere long, on Bunker Hill, DEMOCRACY announcing, in rifle-volleys death-winged, under her Star Banner, to the tune of Yankee-doodle-doo, that she is born, and, whirlwind-like, will envelope the whole world!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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