death-damps

And thus he would die — out in the cold world, with no shelter over his homeless head, no friendly hand to wipe the death-damps from his brow, no loving face to bend pityingly over him when the great agony came.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2003

His intellect (and it was no fool's intellect,) was quite clear, and if the long hours by himself, in which he reckoned with his own soul, had hastened the death-damps on his brow, they had also written there an expression which was new to John Broom.

Tales from Many Sources Vol. V Various

Her arm shook—her eyes, now becoming glassy with the death-damps, were cast toward her brother’s face.

Little Jane. Pieces in Early Youth 1892

And thus he would die -- out in the cold world, with no shelter over his homeless head, no friendly hand to wipe the death-damps from his brow, no loving face to bend pityingly over him when the great agony came.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876

His intellect (and it was no fool's intellect,) was quite clear, and if the long hours by himself, in which he reckoned with his own soul, had hastened the death-damps on his brow, they had also written there an expression which was new to John Broom.

Lob Lie-by-the-Fire: or The Luck of Lingborough 1873

They were a wicked and cruel people; slavery with them was connected with, and subject to the very worst developments of cruelty and inhumanity, and the masters being in the 'deep, dark, death-damps' of heathenism, there was no possibility of any knowledge of the true God being imparted to them.

Nellie Norton: Or, Southern Slavery and the Bible. A Scriptural Refutation of the Principal Arguments upon which the Abolitionists Rely. A Vindication of Southern Slavery from the Old and New Testaments. 1864

Then darting back once more to the girl, who lay as motionless as before, she screamed in shrill despair, "She's getting as cold as ice; the death-damps will be on her if you will not play for my darling."

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

Her arm shook -- her eyes, now becoming glassy with the death-damps, were cast toward her brother's face.

Pieces in Early Youth, 1834-'42 ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855

Her arm shook -- her eyes, now becoming glassy with the death-damps, were cast toward her brother's face.

Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855

Hyenas filled me with their laughs; death-damps chilled my brow; I prayed not, but blasphemed.

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855