deathful

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A deathful stillness came upon the assembled multitude.

From Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)

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

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

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

But vain was valor—vain the flower Of KERMAN, in that deathful hour, Against AL HASSAN'S whelming power.—

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael