deathful

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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)

Shall not the fiend relent, while groaning age   Pours its deep sorrows o'er its offspring slain; While sire-robb'd infants mourn the deathful rage,   In many a penury enfeebled strain?

From Poetic Sketches by Gent, Thomas

Revers’d that spear, redoubtable in war, Reclined that banner, erst in fields unfurl’d, That like a deathful meteor gleam’d afar, And brav’d the mighty monarchs of the world.—

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

Thy deathful bow against some deer-herd bent, Sacred to Dian?

From Endymion A Poetic Romance by Keats, John

The bird of Jove Fierce from his mountain-eyrie downward drove; Each favourite fowl he pounced with deathful sway, And back triumphant wing'd his airy way.

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander