deathful

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No dang'rous tree or deathful fruit shall grow, No tempting serpent to allure the soul, From native innocence; a Canaan here Another Canaan shall excel the old, And from fairer Pisgah's top be seen.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Freneau, Philip

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

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

Suddenly a cannon thundered royally, and down the narrow street rushed a deathful defiance, carrying disorder and dismay to the assailants, joy and wonder to the nearly exhausted defenders.

From Moods by Alcott, Louisa May