deathful

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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

From the union of Space and Time springs a child, Orc, hereafter the deliverer, whom the father and mother chain with the chain of jealousy below the deathful shadow of Urizen.

From William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work by Langridge, Irene

How they ring with life and hope in contrast with the dull, heavy, deathful word of poor Ecclesiastes—"For that is the end of all men"!

From Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Jennings, Frederick Charles

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

Diana! speed thy deathful ebon dart, And cure the pangs of this convulsive heart.

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander