Meaning of strong as death | Babel Free

Definitions

Very strong or emotionally powerful.

not-comparable

Examples

“Now alive as he was to all these searching argumentative itemizings of the minutest known facts any way bearing upon the subject; and yet, at the same time, persuaded, strong as death, that in spite of them, Isabel was indeed his sister; how could Pierre […] fail⟳ to acknowledge the existence of that all-controlling and all-permeating wonderfulness […] denominated The Finger of God?”

“With this feeling strong as death upon him, he crumpled up the letters into one mass and tossed them precipitately into the fire.”

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