Such subjects merit poets used to raise The attic verse harmonious; but for me A deadlier theme demands my backward hand, And bids me strike the strings of dissonance With frantic energy.
He, whose sole tooth inflicts a deadlier pang Than all your tortures join'd.
As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before!
Where will deadlier feeling harbour than in the bosom of a monk, thwart but his ambition?
Does the iron fiat of the constitution doom it to such imbecility that it cannot arrest the process that made them "enemies," and still goads to deadlier hate by fiery trials, and day by day adds others to their number?
To the proud young warrior of France a greater degradation, a deadlier humiliation, than this could not have come.
But he had dealt himself a far deadlier one when he had resolved to part forever from the King.
Plain is the law, that oaths extorted by compulsion, through fraud and in fear, the Church hath the right to loose: plainer still the law of God and of man, that an oath to commit crime it is a deadlier sin to keep than to forfeit.
Yea, but a curse she hath sent above all these To hurt us where she healed us; and hath lit Fire where the old fire went out, and where the wind Slackened, hath blown on us with deadlier air.
This doth she, being unloved, whom if one love, Not fire nor iron and the wide-mouthed wars Are deadlier than her lips or braided hair.
From Loraine," went on Len Haswell in a voice of even deadlier quiet.
But mine is the midnight of Death, And Nature's morn To my bosom forlorn Brings but a gloomier night, implants a deadlier thorn.
Despair is the devil's best friend; better give way to deadly sin than to deadlier despair!
She assumed a freedom of speculation, then common enough on the other side of the Atlantic, but which our forefathers, had they known it, would have held to be a deadlier crime than that stigmatised by the scarlet letter.
It was impossible to doubt that, whatever painful efficacy there might be in the secret sting of remorse, a deadlier venom had been infused into it by the hand that proffered relief.
Even now fate whets the steel On whetstones new and deadlier than of old, The steel that smites, in Justice' hold, Another death to deal.
She assumed a freedom of speculation, then common enough on the other side of the Atlantic, but which our forefathers, had they known it, would have held to be a deadlier crime than that stigmatized by the scarlet letter.
It was impossible to doubt, that, whatever painful efficacy there might be in the secret sting of remorse, a deadlier venom had been infused into it by the hand that proffered relief.
But the reckoning must come at last, and may my right hand wither at the wrist if I make it not the fuller and deadlier for every hour it is delayed!
His injured sight was a fardeadlier breach in the habit of his days than withdrawal from office or from parliament.
Yet louder the thunder of battle roared-- Yet a deadlier fire on the columns poured; Slaughter infernal rode with Despair, Furies twain, through the murky air.
Naturally office-seekers dogged his footsteps, and numberless disappointed aspirants bore grudges deadlier than stilettos.
Romance never had a more brilliant or a deadlier course.
Bread lacks, the cholera deadlier grows; From the lagoon bridge the white banner blows.
Undaunted she fell; Bravely she fought for her banner and well; But bread lacks; the cholera deadlier grows; From the lagoon bridge the white banner blows.
As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier that before!
Then came the sound of fiercer strife, the cry of deadlier anguish.
No deadlier weapons were used, but showers of missiles from time to time descended, unsavoury or otherwise.
Only they must swear not to come into our haunts again, either with hawk and hound or with deadlier weapons.
I have some skill myself in balms and simples, But, in these deadlier matters I would fain Trust to your wider knowledge.
Our rifles blazed upon the blaze below; The blaze below upon the blaze above, And in the blaze the buzz of myriad bees Whose stings were deadlierthan the Libyan asp.
Shines the new Helen in Alsace-Lorraine, A darker river severs Rhine and Rhone, Is heard a deadlier Epic of the twain; We see a Paris burn Or France Napoleon.
Heard still, to be heard while France shall stand erect, The frontier march she piped her sons, for where Her crouching outer enemy camped, Attendant on the deadlier inner's hiss.
Pekah, according to the Chronicler, inflicted far deadlier injuries than Rezin.
When religion is used for a cloak of covetousness, of usurping ambition, of secret immorality, it becomes deadlier than infidelity.
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