deathful
Example Sentences
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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 Sax Rohmer
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 Romesh Dutt
The king took his deathful spear, and struck the deeply-sounding shield....
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
Meantime the suitors urge the prince's fate, And deathful arts employ the dire debate: When in his airy tour, the bird of Jove Truss'd with his sinewy pounce a trembling dove; Sinister to their hope!
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
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 William Knight
