King of Terrors

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  1. death poetic
    — Mr. Dangerfield, or shall we say the villain, Charles Archer, with characteristic promptitude and coolness, availed himself of the interval to try every influence he could once have set in motion, and as it were to gather his strength for a mighty tussle with the king of terrors, when his pale fingers should tap at his cell-door.

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Calque of Biblical Hebrew מֶ֣לֶךְ בַּלָּהוֹת (“king of terrors”) from Job 18:14.
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