deathful
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But vain was valor—vain the flower Of KERMAN, in that deathful hour, Against AL HASSAN'S whelming power.—
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
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 Luís de Camões
Ye dewy mists the arid rocks o'er-spread Whose slippery face derides his deathful tread!
From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 by William Knight
But when the tenth bright morning orient glow'd, The faithful youth his monarch's mandate show'd: The fatal tablets, till that instant seal'd, The deathful secret to the king reveal'd.
From The Iliad by Alexander Pope
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 Charles Brockden Brown
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