deathful

Example Sentences

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How they ring with life and hope in contrast with the dull, heavy, deathful word of poor Ecclesiastes—"For that is the end of all men"!

From Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Jennings, Frederick Charles

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 Cory, William (AKA William Johnson)

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

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

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 Pope, Alexander

A deathful stillness came upon the assembled multitude.

From Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)