deathful

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But bold Krishna drove his chariot, whispered unto him his plan, Arjun placed the young Sikhandin in the deathful battle's van!

From Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse by Dutt, Romesh

The most polluted plays that ever oozed from the poisonous pen of leprous dramatist have won their deathful power through the medium of newspapers; the evil is stupendous!

From The Abominations of Modern Society by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)

An hour later we stood in the silent room, with its drawn blinds and its deathful atmosphere, looking down at the pale, intellectual face of Henry Stradwick, Lord Southery, the greatest engineer of his day.

From The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Rohmer, Sax

Shall not the fiend relent, while groaning age   Pours its deep sorrows o'er its offspring slain; While sire-robb'd infants mourn the deathful rage,   In many a penury enfeebled strain?

From Poetic Sketches by Gent, Thomas

But vain was valor—vain the flower Of KERMAN, in that deathful hour, Against AL HASSAN'S whelming power.—

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael