dead-thraw

I doubt not a justice-loving public will have remarked, ere this, that I have thus far shown a criminal remissness in pursuing, catching, and bringing to condign punishment the would-be assassin of Mr. Robert Moore: here was a fine opening to lead my willing readers a dance, at once decorous and exciting: a dance of law and gospel, of the dungeon, the dock, and the 'dead-thraw.'

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Ingoldsby, her cousin-german by the mother's side; but the Baron was too far gone in the dead-thraw to recognize either.

Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers Various

‘And wha ever heard of a door being barred when a man was in the dead-thraw?

Chapter XXVII 1917

Bertram turned a stupefied and unmeaning eye on the messenger who uttered this calamitous news; and, repeating the words ‘in the dead-thraw!

Chapter IX 1917

‘Oh, but ye maun come hame, sir! ye maun come hame! we have sent for the Sheriff, and we’ll set a watch here á night, in case the gipsies return; but you—ye maun come hame, sir, ——for my lady’s in the dead-thraw.

Chapter IX 1917

They likewise carefully watch the corpse by night and day till the time of interment, and conceive that “the deil tinkles at the lykewake” of those who felt in their dead-thraw the agonies and terrors of remorse.

Notes 1917

Bertram turned a stupefied and unmeaning eye on the messenger who uttered this calamitous news; and, repeating the words ‘in the dead-thraw!’ as if he could not comprehend their meaning, suffered the old man to drag him towards his horse.

Guy Mannering 1815

'Think of his having left my cause in the dead-thraw between the tyneing and the winning, and capering off into Cumberland here, after a wild loup-the-tether lad they ca' Darsie Latimer. '

Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

They likewise carefully watch the corpse by night and day till the time of interment, and conceive that "the deil tinkles at the lyke-wake" of those who felt in their dead-thraw the agonies and terrors of remorse. '

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

Bertram turned a stupefied and unmeaning eye on the messenger who uttered this calamitous news; and, repeating the words 'in the dead-thraw!' as if he could not comprehend their meaning, suffered the old man to drag him towards his horse.

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801