death-stab

But to make him a _slave_, cheapens to nothing _universal human nature_, and instead of healing a wound, gives a death-stab.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

But to make him a _slave_, cheapens to nothing _universal human nature_, and instead of healing a wound, gives a death-stab.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

In a few minutes every one of them had been slain, and Gaïnas, now covered with wounds, was dragged from his steed, and received his death-stab.

Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895

"Nick will know what I did!" she told herself, as the death-stab of failure struck her in the heart.

The Port of Adventure 1889

She never raised her hands so high to swear allegiance to freedom as when she gave the death-stab, and madly leaped upon its corpse; and her most delirious dance was among the clods her hands had cast upon its coffin.

The Grimke Sisters Birney, Catherine H. 1885

We may, without offence, intimate in our prayers the end we wish to obtain; but it is not for us, poor mortals, to point out to an all-seeing Providence the precise manner in which our petitions are to be accomplished, or to wish the downfall of a country to end its commotions, as the death-stab terminates the agonies of the wounded stag.

Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Walter Scott 1801

a country to end its commotions, as the death-stab terminates the agonies of the wounded stag.

Castle Dangerous 2008

_universal human nature_, and instead of healing a wound, gives a death-stab.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

_universal human nature_, and instead of healing a wound, gives a death-stab.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society