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"Deathful" Quotes from Famous Books

... deathful, horrifying cry—and a distant babbling alone answered me. There was a crash. Clearly, Deeping had dropped the receiver. ...

— The Quest of the Sacred Slipper • Sax Rohmer

... stamped furiously, and beat the wind with hands of deathful challenge, while I looked on with that noble interest which the enlightened mind always feels in people about to ...

— A Wanderer in Venice • E.V. Lucas

... partly fierce[1] and exhaustive, at the furnace; partly foolish and sedentary, of ill-taught students making bad designs: work from the beginning to the last fruits of it, and in all the branches of it, venomous, deathful, and miserable. Now, how did it come to pass that this work was done instead of the other; that the strength and life of the English operative were spent in defiling ground, instead of redeeming it; and in producing an entirely (in that place) valueless piece of metal, which can ...

— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin

... Simon Magus: "Thy money perish with thee!" But I arraign the newspapers that give their columns to corrupt advertising for the nefarious work they are doing. The most polluted plays that ever oozed from the poisonous pen of leprous dramatist have won their deathful power through the medium of ...

— The Abominations of Modern Society • Rev. T. De Witt Talmage

... journeyers pored upon the deathful course beneath their feet, gave a shudder to the horror of being cast upon it, and then hurried over the bridge to the island, in the shadow of whose wildness they sought refuge ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... poignard in his belt he wore, A crescent sword depended at his side, The deathful quiver at his back he bore, And infants—at his ...

— The Mysteries of Udolpho • Ann Radcliffe