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

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

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 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

But bold Krishna drove his chariot, whispered unto him his plan, Arjun placed the young Sikhandin in the deathful battle's van!

From Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse by Dutt, Romesh