death-rattles

The night was gloomy, a greyish fog seemed to weigh upon the sea, which beat against the cliff with a noise as of death-rattles and sobs; and the shadows gradually vanished as if they had passed through the walls.

Salammbo 2003

And in the horror and climax of death-rattles, which is Mexico, she thought she could see it in the black eyes of the Indians.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

He ate omelettes on farmhouse tables, poked his arm into damp beds, received the tepid spurt of blood-lettings in his face, listened to death-rattles, examined basins, turned over a good deal of dirty linen; but every evening he found a blazing fire, his dinner ready, easy-chairs, and a well-dressed

Madame Bovary 1902

It was the engines that were sending out death-rattles at the same time that a torrent of steam as thick as ink was pouring from the smokestack.

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

To all his efforts it responded only by gasps, mournfulest death-rattles, and lamentable wails.

Blix Frank Norris 1886

In Juvenal, I can hear confusedly the death-rattles of the gladiators; Tacitus has sentences that resemble the drapery of a laticlave, and some of Horace's verses are like the body of a Greek slave, with supple undulations, and short and long syllables that sound like crotala.

Over Strand and Field Gustave Flaubert 1850

Blame a long list of horrible economic data, plus bank death-struggles, and, oh yes, auto company death-rattles.

unknown title 2009

That is the reality of the death-rattles being heard from the immediate vicinity of that walking corpse known as 'Goldman Sucks.'

LaRouche's Latest 2009

LOL, there’s a lot of unexpected spilled blood and death-rattles along the way.

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