The death rattle finally silenced the voice of the heretics.
It is the end,” he said, “the death rattle; that is how people die.
Does not each tick of the second-hand mark the death rattle of thousands of men?
His sighs turned into groans, and the groans changed to a death rattle.
Already the wise ones are hearing the death rattle and last gasp.
She told how she had heard the death rattle of the child during the night.
She lay there, her long, thin body practically dead, fighting the death rattle in her throat.
"You come too late, brother," the wounded man murmured, in a voice choking with the death rattle.
She was shouting and laughing, and he seemed to have the death rattle.
And the smirking gods of war, too, of course, if the two youths could but hear their death rattle voices!
death rattle n.
A gurgling or rattling sound sometimes made in the throat of a dying person, caused by loss of the cough reflex and passage of the breath through accumulating mucus.