deathful

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An hour later we stood in the silent room, with its drawn blinds and its deathful atmosphere, looking down at the pale, intellectual face of Henry Stradwick, Lord Southery, the greatest engineer of his day.

From The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Rohmer, Sax

Ye dewy mists the arid rocks o'er-spread Whose slippery face derides his deathful tread!

From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 by Knight, William

You have spoken of Truth, 'the deathful Truth'; this being, however, nothing but Truth according to the world's opinion, which changes with every passing generation, and therefore is not Truth at all.

From Ardath by Corelli, Marie

The listening traveller   Starts fear-struck, while the hollow echoing vaults   Of pyramids increase the deathful sounds.

From English Poets of the Eighteenth Century by Bernbaum, Ernest

The most polluted plays that ever oozed from the poisonous pen of leprous dramatist have won their deathful power through the medium of newspapers; the evil is stupendous!

From The Abominations of Modern Society by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)