deathful

Example Sentences

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Didst thou hide the birth and lineage of that chief of deathful ire, As a man in folds of garments seeks to hide the flaming fire?

From Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse by Dutt, Romesh

From the union of Space and Time springs a child, Orc, hereafter the deliverer, whom the father and mother chain with the chain of jealousy below the deathful shadow of Urizen.

From William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work by Langridge, Irene

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 Troward, T. (Thomas)

But when the tenth bright morning orient glow'd, The faithful youth his monarch's mandate show'd: The fatal tablets, till that instant seal'd, The deathful secret to the king reveal'd.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

The features of one whom I had seen so transiently as Wallace may be imagined to be not easily recognised, especially when those features were tremulous and deathful.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden