deathful

Example Sentences

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

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander

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

Revers’d that spear, redoubtable in war, Reclined that banner, erst in fields unfurl’d, That like a deathful meteor gleam’d afar, And brav’d the mighty monarchs of the world.—

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

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

You are not an artist by reproving nature into deathful sameness, but by animating your copy of her into vital variation.

From Val d'Arno by Ruskin, John