death-groan

It vibrated through the student, who took the sound for a death-groan.

Paras. 1–99 1917

'There is no God! Nature confirms the faith his death-groan sealed.

Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem. 1901

He held down the D flat, and the open pipe went booming and throbbing through the long nave arcades, and in the dark recesses of the triforium, and under the beetling vaulting, and quavered away high up in the lantern, till it seemed like the death-groan of a giant.

The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895

Then, once more, a wail, a death-groan, and that dreadful noise, that hideous gurgle of breath strangled by a rush of blood.

Hauntings Vernon Lee 1895

Lips were shaping gallant compliments — soon they were going to utter the death-groan.

Mohun, or, The last days of Lee and his paladins 1869

Across the darkness of this night I hear their death-groan.

The Abominations of Modern Society 1867

The neighing of the wounded horse mingled with the last prayer, or the death-groan, of its rider.

Dr. Dumany's Wife M��r J��kai 1864

Lips were shaping gallant compliments -- soon they were going to utter the death-groan.

Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee John Esten Cooke 1858

And a death-groan boomed hoarse underneath the pall,

Kenelm Chillingly — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

And a death-groan boomed hoarse underneath the pall,

Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838