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I was ordered, with others, to wait below the tower of the royal harem at midnight and bear away a corpse. We saw a woman struggling with two men at the top of the tower. The woman was flung over. We rushed forward. At my feet, in the death-agony, lay my beloved Zeenab. I hung over her in the deepest despair; my feelings could not be concealed from the ruffians around me.
Snatch and fight for the flesh and devour it and trouble me no more! This is the body that was given for you look at it, torn and bleeding, throbbing still with the tortured life, quivering from the bitter death-agony; take it, Christians, and eat!" He had caught up the sun with the Host and lifted it above his head; and now flung it crashing down upon the floor.
They fought as men have seldom fought before, and with them fought the women and even the children. They were few and the foe was still many, but they listened to the urging of him whom they believed to be inspired in his death-agony upon the cross above them, and still they held their own.
It will be remembered that the last of the Deinosaurs and the Ammonites also exhibited some remarkable developments in their last days. These facts have suggested to some writers the idea that expiring races pass through a death-agony, and seem to die a natural death of old age like individuals.
An inexorable religion has fallen from them upon us all, upholding what exists, preserving what is. Suddenly I hear beside me, as if I were in a file of the executed, a stammering death-agony; and I think I see him who struggled like a stricken vulture, on the earth that was bloated with dead.
So it was, and Barbara remembered that his son and hers had also seen the light of the world on St. Matthias's day. Charles's death-agony was severe. When Dr. Here Wolf was again obliged to give his weeping friend time to calm herself. What he now had to relate both knew it was well suited to transform the tears which Barbara was shedding in memory of the beloved dead to tears of joy.
Pledge me your faith that you will never, while I live at least, reveal to him to any one whom you suspect your reproach, your defiance, your knowledge nay, not even your lightest suspicion of his identity with my persecutor; promise me this, Morton Devereux, or I, in my turn, before that crucifix, whose sanctity we both acknowledge and adore, that crucifix which has descended to my race for three unbroken centuries, which, for my departed father, in the solemn vow, and in the death-agony, has still been a witness, a consolation, and a pledge, between the soul and its Creator, by that crucifix which my dying mother clasped to her bosom when she committed me, an infant, to the care of that Heaven which hears and records forever our lightest word, I swear that I will never be yours!"
For her sake but for theirs? Startled by the vividness of the murder, Jim looked up from the book, thinking that he had heard indeed the shrieks of Charity in a death-agony. The walls seemed to quiver still with their reverberation. He put down the book in terror and saw where he was. It was like waking from a nightmare.
Their glazed eyes seemed to be still appealing for pity. They had fallen down exhausted, finding it impossible to keep up with their fellows. They had been quickly unharnessed, so as not to block up the road; had been dragged on to the sunburnt grass, and it was there no doubt the death-agony that had already lasted for some hours had come to an end.
A shout issued from the forest behind, a volley roared among the trees, and glancing lead was whistling through the air, and cutting twigs from the undergrowth on every side. Two more of the Wampanoags were seen rolling on the earth, in the death-agony. The voice of Annawon was heard in the encampment, and at the next instant the place was deserted.
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