deathful

Example Sentences

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Prone bodies half rose out of the shroud of mud that dripped in tails and liquid rags from their limbs, and these deathful apparitions cried also, "Let's go!"

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Wray, Fitzwater

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

A deathful stillness came upon the assembled multitude.

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

She had had her dream—ravishing and brief—but the awakening was terrible as the struggle back to life from a swoon or deathful lethargy.

From At Last by Harland, Marion

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