deathful

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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 Gent, Thomas

The king took his deathful spear, and struck the deeply-sounding shield....

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

But vain was valor—vain the flower Of KERMAN, in that deathful hour, Against AL HASSAN'S whelming power.—

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

Ye dewy mists the arid rocks o'er-spread Whose slippery face derides his deathful tread!

From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 by Knight, William

Suddenly a cannon thundered royally, and down the narrow street rushed a deathful defiance, carrying disorder and dismay to the assailants, joy and wonder to the nearly exhausted defenders.

From Moods by Alcott, Louisa May