Swiftly flies the feathered death.
Dryden.
He caught his death the last county sessions.
Addison.
5. Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
Death! great proprietor of all.
Young.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was Death.
Rev. vi. 8.