deathful
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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 T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
Against the breaking heart, and the bursting head; against all the dismal lassitude, and deathful faintness and sleeplessness, and whirlingness, and craziness, still he like a demigod bore up.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
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 Joel Barlow
End this dread and deathful battle if thy stony heart can grieve, Save the chieftains doomed to slaughter, bid the fated nations live!
From Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse by Romesh Dutt
How they ring with life and hope in contrast with the dull, heavy, deathful word of poor Ecclesiastes—"For that is the end of all men"!
From Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Frederick Charles Jennings
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