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 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
Thy deathful bow against some deer-herd bent, Sacred to Dian?
From Endymion A Poetic Romance by John Keats
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
