deathful

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Revers’d that spear, redoubtable in war, Reclined that banner, erst in fields unfurl’d, That like a deathful meteor gleam’d afar, And brav’d the mighty monarchs of the world.—

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

No cry for help parted the pale lips, but those wide eyes were luminous with a love whose fire that deathful river could not quench.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 by Various

The stern-brow'd tyrant roars and tears the ground His watchful horns portend the deathful wound.

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

How they ring with life and hope in contrast with the dull, heavy, deathful word of poor Ecclesiastes—"For that is the end of all men"!

From Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Jennings, Frederick Charles

The splendour of a court, to them unknown, Exchang'd for deathful Fate's most awful frown, To distant times, through every land, shall blaze The self-devoted Lusian's nobler praise.

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