deathful

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These deathful deeds as great Columbus eyed, With anxious tone he thus addrest the Guide: Why combat here these transatlantic bands, And strow their corses thro thy pathless lands?

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel

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

From Endymion A Poetic Romance by Keats, John

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

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

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