deathful

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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

These deathful deeds as great Columbus eyed, With anxious tone he thus addrest the Guide: Why combat here these transatlantic bands, And strow their corses thro thy pathless lands?

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel

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

The king took his deathful spear, and struck the deeply-sounding shield....

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

The splendour of a court, to them unknown, Exchang'd for deathful Fate's most awful frown, To distant times, through every land, shall blaze The self-devoted Lusian's nobler praise.

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