death-hour

And he judged right; for Sir Piercie Shafton no sooner heard him speak, than he exclaimed, “Thy death-hour has struck — betake thee to thy sword — Via!”

The Monastery 2008

After frequent defeats, after the loss of all hope, the hero, wishing to embrace for the last time his sick and blind son, sends for the precocious boy, whose death-hour is to strike before his own.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Mighty was the man's courage, which knew how with one laugh to cover his death-hour, and with a joyous face to suppress utter anguish of mind and body!

The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

As the consecutive seas sweep up the reef, she lifts her head and drops it again and again, like a poor recumbent brute in its death-hour.

Stories by English Authors: the Sea Various

The sun veils his beams, he will not mark the hero’s death-hour.

Act V. Scene III 1909

Never did Huron warriors fight better than in this conflict at the death-hour of their nation.

The Jesuit Missions : A chronicle of the cross in the wilderness Thomas Guthrie Marquis 1900

For the physical nature is inherited from parents, and sensitiveness to psychic impressions is a property of the physical body; in our family, as in so many Irish ones, belief in “ghosts” of all descriptions was general, and my mother has told me of the banshee that she had heard wailing when the death-hour of one of the family was near.

An Autobiography Besant, Annie 1893

Though her grief at my change of faith and consequent social ostracism did much to hasten her death-hour, it never brought a cloud between our hearts; though her pleading was the hardest of all to face in later days, and brought the bitterest agony, it made no gulf between us, it cast no chill upon our mutual love.

An Autobiography Besant, Annie 1893

"This is the death-hour of your child, and, Heaven pardon you, it seems to be the death-hour of your brother's hopes too!"

A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892

I believe it will be my strongest feeling when my own death-hour comes -- eager, intense, glad curiosity about the new, strange world opening before me.

The Gospel of the Hereafter 1892