Had not so much death hung in the balance, the sight would have looked almost pretty.

Other times, life and death hang in the balance.

He wasn't dead, but death hung around the place like a gentlemanly bill collector for a month.

The death of his son, and the five thousand men who escorted him to hell, will always hang between us now.

But the continuing deaths among those troops hung heavily over the last hours of debate.

These were the hurts of life, while death hung over them all.

In this place, death hung close, like flies on a still day.

Teresa's death hung between them like a barrier of pain.

Life or death hung in the balance with the great hazard yet to come.

As death hung over him, he spoke to his army: