deathful

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Against the breaking heart, and the bursting head; against all the dismal lassitude, and deathful faintness and sleeplessness, and whirlingness, and craziness, still he like a demigod bore up.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

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

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

From the union of Space and Time springs a child, Orc, hereafter the deliverer, whom the father and mother chain with the chain of jealousy below the deathful shadow of Urizen.

From William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work by Langridge, Irene

Now, deeply yearning o'er our deathful fate, With joyful hope of India's shore elate, We loose the hawsers and the sail expand, And, upward coast the Ethiopian strand.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de