deathful
Example Sentences
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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 Irene Langridge
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 T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
In the deathful cave, With the feeble troop Of the folk that droop, Lurk and flit and crave, Woman severed and far-flown.
From Ionica by William (AKA William Johnson) Cory
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 Sax Rohmer
Everything that tends to detract from the fulness of life has in it this deathful quality.
From The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward
