deathful
Example Sentences
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That we were victims of a cunning plot, that the deathful Si-Fan had at last wreaked its vengeance upon Nayland Smith I could not doubt.
From The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor by Sax Rohmer
The stern-brow'd tyrant roars and tears the ground His watchful horns portend the deathful wound.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões
The bird of Jove Fierce from his mountain-eyrie downward drove; Each favourite fowl he pounced with deathful sway, And back triumphant wing'd his airy way.
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
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 splendour of a court, to them unknown, Exchang'd for deathful Fate's most awful frown, To distant times, through every land, shall blaze The self-devoted Lusian's nobler praise.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões
