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destroying angel |
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destroying angel n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a white slender very poisonous basidiomycetous toadstool, Amanita virosa, having a pronounced volva, frilled, shaggy stalk, and sickly smell ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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He is a destroying angel in moving through the still watches of the night. But it was strange to hear the milkman in the early morning, and the postman knocking his way along the street an hour later, and to be passed over by one destroying angel after another. Her pale face became paler; the circles under her eyes deepened, as they did when tears half-gather without falling; and the mild loving eyes took an expression of appalled pity, as if she had suddenly discerned a destroying angel hovering over the heads of the people. |
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