deathful

Example Sentences

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She had had her dream—ravishing and brief—but the awakening was terrible as the struggle back to life from a swoon or deathful lethargy.

From At Last by Harland, Marion

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 Knight, William

The king took his deathful spear, and struck the deeply-sounding shield....

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

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 Barlow, Joel

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 Wray, Fitzwater