"Lethal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... peculiar to the crowded townsmen of that time, and different altogether from the normal experience of any preceding age, that they never saw anything killed, never encountered, save through the mitigating media of book or picture, the fact of lethal violence that underlies all life. Three times in his existence, and three times only, had Bert seen a dead human being, and he had never assisted at the killing of anything bigger than a ...
— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells
... of some monument and cry "Vive la Belgique! A bas les tyrans!" The policemen and the spies looked another way and affected deafness. They had orders not to arrest her unless she actually resorted to firearms or other lethal weapons. ...
— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston
... that he had never feed a doctor in his life, and his impression that a sound resort for any kind of invalid is a lethal chamber.... ...
— Snake and Sword - A Novel • Percival Christopher Wren
... voice said. "He must have taken enough roentgens of gamma and neutrons to reach or exceed the median-lethal dose." ...
— Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet • Harold Leland Goodwin
... demand a volunteer cadet-corps. A volunteer cadet-corps will be furnished. I have suggested, however, that we need not embark upon the expense of uniforms till we are drilled. General Collinson is sending us fifty lethal weapons—cut-down Sniders, he calls ...
— Stalky & Co. • Rudyard Kipling
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