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Deathly

adjective

Having the physical appearance of death. Synonym: deathlike.

Causing or capable of causing death. Synonyms: deadly, mortal. "A deadly enemy" , "Mortal combat" , "A mortal illness"

adverb

To a degree resembling death.

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"Deathly" Quotes from Famous Books

... to give the enemy warning of the threatened danger, the drums of the regulars beat the reveille, and the bagpipes of the Highlanders woke the forest-echoes far and wide with their wild and shrilly din. All this time, not a gun had been fired from the fort. The deathly silence that reigned within was mistaken for fear, and made the fool-hardy Grant so audacious as to fancy that he had but to raise his finger, and the fort must fall. As Braddock's day had begun with martial parade and ...

— The Farmer Boy, and How He Became Commander-In-Chief • Morrison Heady

... a deathly white. Gale, thinking with surprise and concern that she was going to faint, moved quickly ...

— Desert Gold • Zane Grey

... shoot!" he screamed, as the creature plunged and kicked madly in the deep snow. Wamedee's face looked deathly, they said; but his two friends could not help laughing. He was still calling upon them to shoot, but when the others took aim he would cry: "Don't shoot! don't shoot! you will kill me!" At last the animal fell down with him; but Wamedee's two friends ...

— Indian Boyhood • [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman

... waited on the inner platform until Larkin and the rest of the attendant warders and officials came up. Then, all being ready, the door was flung open, and the boy-martyr was first led out upon the drop. His face, which was deathly pale, appeared working with the effects of strong mental agony. The high priest of English rule over Irishmen, Calcraft, came forward, placed the treacherous noose around Allen's neck, pulled a thin white cap over his ashen face, and then ...

— The Dock and the Scaffold • Unknown

... I was really quite disappointed. I do so want to make a name for myself in the service that I would eagerly jump at the chance of sailing up the Kiel canal in a Barnegat Sneak Box were it not for the fact that sailing always makes me deathly sick. I don't know why it is, but the more I have to do with water the more reasons I find for shunning it. The cigar butt episode broke my heart though. I was all keyed up for some heroic deed—what an anti-climax! I left the spot in a bitter, humiliated mood. ...

— Biltmore Oswald - The Diary of a Hapless Recruit • J. Thorne Smith, Jr.

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