deathful

Example Sentences

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Didst thou hide the birth and lineage of that chief of deathful ire, As a man in folds of garments seeks to hide the flaming fire?

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

No cry for help parted the pale lips, but those wide eyes were luminous with a love whose fire that deathful river could not quench.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 by Various

An hour later we stood in the silent room, with its drawn blinds and its deathful atmosphere, looking down at the pale, intellectual face of Henry Stradwick, Lord Southery, the greatest engineer of his day.

From The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Rohmer, Sax

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 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