deathful
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Suddenly a cannon thundered royally, and down the narrow street rushed a deathful defiance, carrying disorder and dismay to the assailants, joy and wonder to the nearly exhausted defenders.
From Moods by Louisa May Alcott
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
The king took his deathful spear, and struck the deeply-sounding shield....
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
The most polluted plays that ever oozed from the poisonous pen of leprous dramatist have won their deathful power through the medium of newspapers; the evil is stupendous!
From The Abominations of Modern Society by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
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
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