A medieval dance in which a skeleton representing death leads a procession of others to the grave.
1Yet still the Piper piped and the dance of death went on.
2We are about to close the masquerade by the dance of death.
3Round and round it eddied, a dust-devil dancing a dance of death.
4Turning in Florence's direction, he once more danced his dance of death.
5It will be years before the dance of death is over-years ,Mary
6Swarms of very minute flies came to the candle dancing their dance of death.
7It sprang from east, west, north, south, and was a perfect dance of death.
8It lifted me in a dance of death and joy.
9All ready, Jack, and now for another ' dance of death.
10His legs kicked in a dance of death, his brains exposed to the light.
11You have made the anklet sounds of the dance of death tinkle in my heart.
12His dance had carried him very near to the verge of the dance of death.
13And now the dance of death began anew.
14The semiautomatic weapon and the deputies did a dance of death, spectral figures in the fog.
15To the west, where the shadows were even now gathering, in their twilight dance of death.
16That scene has the feel of both a ritual sacrifice and a perversely intimate dance of death.
Translations for dance of death