deathful

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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 Pope, Alexander

You have spoken of Truth, 'the deathful Truth'; this being, however, nothing but Truth according to the world's opinion, which changes with every passing generation, and therefore is not Truth at all.

From Ardath by Corelli, Marie

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 Harland, Marion

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

No dang'rous tree or deathful fruit shall grow, No tempting serpent to allure the soul, From native innocence; a Canaan here Another Canaan shall excel the old, And from fairer Pisgah's top be seen.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Freneau, Philip