death-bearing

The light boat heaves not, nor is opposed by death-bearing waves; the ether opens before the prow, and the shadow of the globe that upholds it, shelters us from the noon-day sun.

The Last Man 2003

France encompass the realms of Russia with death-bearing terrors; humble Faith, the sling of the Russian David, shall suddenly smite his head in his blood-thirsty pride.

War and Peace 2003

Avoid also the children of the evil one, Theodotus and Cleobulus, who produce death-bearing fruit, whereof if any one tastes, he instantly dies, and that not a mere temporary death, but one that shall endure for ever.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

Flee, therefore, those evil offshoots [of Satan], which produce death-bearing fruit, whereof if any one tastes, he instantly dies.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

Rose, her eyes streaming, her sight gone, went on sweeping around with her petrifying length of death-bearing punty iron.

Shattered Francis, Dick 2000

Today, from a perspective, we are able to distinguish outlines of the events which by their death-bearing range surpassed all natural disasters known to us, but poetry, mine and my contemporaries ', whether of inherited or avant-garde style, was not prepared to cope with those catastrophes.

Czeslaw Milosz - Nobel Lecture 1980

The heavy air, the hideous dark, the nervous trampling of those death-bearing hoofs ---- The girls spoke no longer.

The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run Laura Lee Hope

So Tarzan scolds them both and threatens Gunto with a taste of the death-bearing slivers if he abuses Tana further, and Tana, for her part, is compelled to promise better attention to her wifely duties.

Tarzan of the Apes 1914

So Tarzan scolds them both and threatens Gunto with a taste of the death-bearing slivers if he abuses Tana further, and Tana, for her part, is compelled to promise better attention to her wifely duties.

Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

The death-bearing arm, they discovered, was actuated by levers and springs, connecting with the lifting mechanism of the lid.

The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest John Henry Goldfrap 1898