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Grim Reaper   /grɪm rˈipər/   Listen
Grim Reaper

noun
1.
Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe.  Synonym: Reaper.






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"Grim reaper" Quotes from Famous Books



... long road led to open country, and many circling aeroplanes over an aviation field nearby gave the air of a fte. Only the uniforms of the English and American women who are attached to each of these many cantonments suggested any necessitous combating of the grim reaper. ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy

... longed for this moment! I love you! I love you! Ever since I met you I have known that you were the one girl in this vast world whom I would die to win! Mary, will you be mine? Shall we go round together? Will you fix up a match with me on the links of life which shall end only when the Grim Reaper ...
— The Clicking of Cuthbert • P. G. Wodehouse

... silence and absence, or what the village editors call "the grim reaper." To live is always more or less of an offense, especially if you have thoughts and express them. Athens exists, in degree, because she killed Socrates, just as Jerusalem is unforgetable for a similar reason. The South did not realize that Lincoln was her best friend until the assassin's ...
— Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers • Elbert Hubbard

... a reputation like silence and absence, or what the village editors call "the grim reaper." To live is always more or less of an offense, especially if you have thoughts and express them. Athens exists, in degree, because she killed Socrates, just as Jerusalem is unforgetable for a similar reason. The South ...
— Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers • Elbert Hubbard

... Werper fancied that he could replace in the girl's heart the position which had been vacated by the act of the grim reaper. He could offer Jane Clayton marriage—a thing which Mohammed Beyd would not offer, and which the girl would spurn from him with as deep disgust as she ...
— Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar • Edgar Rice Burroughs



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