deathful

Example Sentences

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Diana! speed thy deathful ebon dart, And cure the pangs of this convulsive heart.

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander

A deathful stillness came upon the assembled multitude.

From Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)

Against the breaking heart, and the bursting head; against all the dismal lassitude, and deathful faintness and sleeplessness, and whirlingness, and craziness, still he like a demigod bore up.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Now, deeply yearning o'er our deathful fate, With joyful hope of India's shore elate, We loose the hawsers and the sail expand, And, upward coast the Ethiopian strand.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de

But when the tenth bright morning orient glow'd, The faithful youth his monarch's mandate show'd: The fatal tablets, till that instant seal'd, The deathful secret to the king reveal'd.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander