deathful
Example Sentences
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You are not an artist by reproving nature into deathful sameness, but by animating your copy of her into vital variation.
From Val d'Arno by John Ruskin
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 Sax Rohmer
Ye dewy mists the arid rocks o'er-spread Whose slippery face derides his deathful tread!
From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 by William Knight
Prone bodies half rose out of the shroud of mud that dripped in tails and liquid rags from their limbs, and these deathful apparitions cried also, "Let's go!"
From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Fitzwater Wray
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 Thomas Gent
