deathful

Example Sentences

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Prone bodies half rose out of the shroud of mud that dripped in tails and liquid rags from their limbs, and these deathful apparitions cried also, "Let's go!"

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Wray, Fitzwater

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 Camões, Luís de

Meantime the suitors urge the prince's fate, And deathful arts employ the dire debate: When in his airy tour, the bird of Jove Truss'd with his sinewy pounce a trembling dove; Sinister to their hope!

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander

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

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