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Updated: June 12, 2025
"Caulaincourt, do you, too, share the views of these gentlemen?" "Yes, sire," said Caulaincourt, with tears in his eyes. "It is too late to conquer; it only remains for us to save what we can." "And you, Berthier and Flahault?" "Sire, that is our opinion! It is too late; all is lost!" Napoleon's sigh sounded like a death-rattle.
A gramophone at the end of the room was grinding out a sentimental tune to which all were listening with rapt enjoyment. I asked one man, among others, how he was faring. He was getting on fine. With the death-rattle in his throat the wounded British soldier invariably tells you that he is getting on fine. "And ain't these roses lovely? Makes the place look like a garden.
Even in falling she preserved the dignity of a queen, and when the men surrounded her she fixed each one separately with her wonderful eyes and spoke through the death-rattle in her throat: "'Shame upon men and soldiers who let themselves be hounded on like dogs to murder and dishonor! Rufus raised his sword to make an end of her, but I caught his arm and knelt beside her, begging her to let me see to her wound.
As he spoke his voice rose until the final word was a shout of inexpressible triumph. Then the colour ebbed away again from cheeks and lips, a film seemed to gather over the still open eyes, the death-rattle sounded in the patient's throat, he gasped once, as if for breath, and then a look of perfect, ineffable peace settled upon the waxen features.
Yesterday was the last time I ever saw my husband and this youngest child alive. I have lain here all these hours these ages, ye may say listening, listening for any sound up there that " She gave a sharp quick glance at her eldest daughter, then cried out, "Oh, my darling!" and feebly gathered the stiffening form to her sheltering arms. She had recognized the death-rattle.
There was, for instance, a slow, asthmatic wheezing, like the breath of a sorely wounded man; a stretching and straining as of a body racked with mortal agony; even a faint bubbling choke like a death-rattle heard in an adjoining chamber. These and others as horribly suggestive.
Tom bent over him to comply with the invitation; but, with a thrill of horror, he started back, as he listened to the death-rattle in the throat of the rebel, and saw his eyes fixed and lustreless in death. It was an awful scene to the inexperienced youth.
Wild exultation filled the galleries which were wont to witness only sorrowful moans and burning tears; yet loud cries for help, piteous wailings, groans, and the death-rattle reached Joshua's ear; for a hot-blooded man had rushed upon the overseer most hated and felled him with his pick-axe.
She looked like a tomato struggling for self-expression. "Well?" Gussie tried hard. And for a moment it seemed as if something was going to come through. But in the end it turned out nothing more than a sort of death-rattle. "Oh, take him away, Bertie, and put ice on his head," said Aunt Dahlia, giving the thing up.
The corners of his mouth were drawn up over his teeth; an accelerated death-rattle shook his chest and with each one of his aspirations, his stomach touched his spine. At last, he closed his eyes. "I feel as if ice were in my bones! Lay thyself beside me!" he commanded.
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