death-blows

Science tends to enlarge the host of pestilences, and diminish the number of death-blows which cannot be explained.

The Prayer Book Explained Percival Jackson

It was not chastity that made me wild but fear that my weapon, tempered in different heat, was over-matched by yours, and your hand skilled to yield death-blows, might break.

American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany Various

After they had taken the lives of this family, they went from plantation to plantation, dealing death-blows to every white man, woman, or child they found.

History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams

In the thickest of the fight he and Oliver came together, and Roland saw that his friend was using for weapon and dealing death-blows with the truncheon of a spear.

A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang

Cropping his rifle, he wheels his trained horse and drawing a pistol from his belt he charges the enemy among whom Kilbuck and the stranger are dealing death-blows.

Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

The death-blows to all aspiration began when I graduated from college and tried to get a start at the work for which I had struggled so hard to fit myself.

Hungry Hearts 1920

Fortieth United States volunteers, who, under General Rufino, served as officers -- soldiers of fortune in a lost campaign -- and who, as a last tribute of the treachery and faithlessness of those they served, received their death-blows at the hands of Filipinos who had caught them off their guard.

The Great White Tribe in Filipinia 1914

When they grew tired of imitating comedians with noisy clashing of spades and death-blows, Ulysses and the other active lads would propose the game of "Bandits and Bailiffs."

Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

From time to time he came out on the top of the limb nearest to us, and, with a wry face, fierce whiskers, and violent gestures, directed a torrent of abuse at the axemen who were delivering death-blows to Old Pine.

Wild Life on the Rockies Enos Abijah Mills 1896

Marlborough had watched with the deepest anxiety the progress of the French arms on the Rhine and in Bavaria, and he saw the futility of carrying on a war of posts and sieges in Flanders, while death-blows to the empire were being dealt on the Danube.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 John [Editor] Rudd 1885