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
End this dread and deathful battle if thy stony heart can grieve, Save the chieftains doomed to slaughter, bid the fated nations live!
From Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse by Romesh Dutt
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 Herman Melville
A deathful stillness came upon the assembled multitude.
From Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
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 Frederick Charles Jennings
