“In the jaws of death.”

—  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Second Week, First Day, Part iv. Compare: "Out of the jaws of death", William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act iii. Sc. 4.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)

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