deathful

Example Sentences

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Everything that tends to detract from the fulness of life has in it this deathful quality.

From The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science by Troward, T. (Thomas)

End this dread and deathful battle if thy stony heart can grieve, Save the chieftains doomed to slaughter, bid the fated nations live!

From Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse by Dutt, Romesh

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 Camões, Luís de

The listening traveller   Starts fear-struck, while the hollow echoing vaults   Of pyramids increase the deathful sounds.

From English Poets of the Eighteenth Century by Bernbaum, Ernest

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 Cory, William (AKA William Johnson)