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n. (alternative spelling of deathbed English)
Usage examples of "death-bed".
But before they separated, Agatha had persuaded her to say that if a message really should come from the young mans death-bed, she would not refuse him the light of her presence.
On his death-bed he became a Catholic out of deference to the tears of his wife.
The poor girl died of 'grief in the course of a year, but did not say a word till she was on her death-bed.
They had all assisted at childbirths and death-beds, and discussed the particulars of them coldly with the old mother.
Three years after these events, his mother, who was on her death-bed, very sick, called for him and said, “When some time since the consultation was being held about disinheriting you, by some means or other your heart was turned, and since then you have been a dutiful son above all others.
Schuyler, too” (I was also Hellward bound), “that on his death-bed John Randolph of Roanoke suddenly sat up, a top hat on his head, and said, over and over again, ‘Remorse, remorse!
The former of these teaching the folly and vanity of it, and the latter correcting it as unlawful, and at the same time assuaging it, by raising future hopes and assurances, which enable a strong and religious mind to take leave of a friend, on his death-bed, with little less indifference than if he was preparing for a long journey.