The use of one to which he is not entitled might spell death for any man.

They could spell death for an inexperienced boy of twenty.

Such a thing would have spelled sure and sudden death.

I do not like them; so often they spell death for some poor devil.

The city may have spelled death and danger, but it has never looked better.

One decision today can spell life or death for a billion people a hundred years from now.

A few seconds more, and the falling bubbles would spell death.

Not that this spelled sure death, outnumbered though they might be.

But he's also a wild card, in a game where the wrong move could spell death for the whole of the Empire.

A shot in that blackness could have spelled quick death.