death-speaking

Updated: May 6, 2025

So beautiful, so gloriously beautiful was that countenance thus breathing prayer, so little seemed that soul of earth, that tears started to the eyes of Agnes, and the paleness of strong emotion over-spread the cheek, aye, and the quivering lip, which the war and death-speaking trumpet had had no power to disturb.

Grace Aguilar - The Days of Bruce Vol 1: A Story from Scottish History