deathful
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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
The king took his deathful spear, and struck the deeply-sounding shield....
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
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 Marion Harland
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
Thy deathful bow against some deer-herd bent, Sacred to Dian?
From Endymion A Poetic Romance by John Keats
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