deathful

Example Sentences

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

From Endymion A Poetic Romance by Keats, John

You are not an artist by reproving nature into deathful sameness, but by animating your copy of her into vital variation.

From Val d'Arno by Ruskin, John

Meantime the suitors urge the prince's fate, And deathful arts employ the dire debate: When in his airy tour, the bird of Jove Truss'd with his sinewy pounce a trembling dove; Sinister to their hope!

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander

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 features of one whom I had seen so transiently as Wallace may be imagined to be not easily recognised, especially when those features were tremulous and deathful.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden