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 most polluted plays that ever oozed from the poisonous pen of leprous dramatist have won their deathful power through the medium of newspapers; the evil is stupendous!
From The Abominations of Modern Society by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
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
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
But bold Krishna drove his chariot, whispered unto him his plan, Arjun placed the young Sikhandin in the deathful battle's van!
From Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse by Dutt, Romesh
