deathful

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End this dread and deathful battle if thy stony heart can grieve, Save the chieftains doomed to slaughter, bid the fated nations live!

From Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse by Dutt, Romesh

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)

No cry for help parted the pale lips, but those wide eyes were luminous with a love whose fire that deathful river could not quench.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 by Various

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 Knight, William

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 Camões, Luís de