death throes betydelse and definition

Exempel på death throes

• Avalon is an enchanted isle in its final death throes.

• Tenebrarum's bloodlust would ultimately be her own undoing, as one of her victims, a maid, was inadvertently responsible for the house catching fire in the midst of her death throes.

• Immediately, there is a distracting sound from the sofa, and he hears, once again, as he had in his dream, the death throes of the old countess.

• Moreover, the death throes of the many beetles accumulating at contaminated pats were themselves enough to break some of the dung into fragments small enough to blow or wash away.

• A dying authority is useless and it can have very nasty death throes.

• I hope that we are seeing the death throes of private landlordism.

• Perhaps some of this strife will prove to be transitional; the death throes of an old order.

• It is an attempt to make the death throes less painful.