deathful
Example Sentences
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These deathful deeds as great Columbus eyed, With anxious tone he thus addrest the Guide: Why combat here these transatlantic bands, And strow their corses thro thy pathless lands?
From The Columbiad by Joel Barlow
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 William Michael Rossetti
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
Everything that tends to detract from the fulness of life has in it this deathful quality.
From The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward
In the deathful cave, With the feeble troop Of the folk that droop, Lurk and flit and crave, Woman severed and far-flown.
From Ionica by William (AKA William Johnson) Cory
