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  • The unstoppable killing machine that is Jason Voorhees more than lived up to that ethos, but his most common instrument of death-bringing was a machete.

    Top 10 Instruments of Death in Slasher Films » Scene-Stealers 2009

  • She shifted the death-bringing radiance toward them.

    Fatal Circle Linda Robertson 2010

  • Though Bercilak is the hospitable knight of the shinning castle, he is also the death-bringing, otherworldly Green Knight.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Carolingian 2007

  • Celan himself spoke of how the German language that he loved had survived "the thousand darknesses of death-bringing speech" (die tausend Finsternisse todbringender Rede).

    The Stasi on Our Minds Ash, Timothy Garton 2007

  • Though Bercilak is the hospitable knight of the shinning castle, he is also the death-bringing, otherworldly Green Knight.

    Sir Gawain at Christmastime Carolingian 2007

  • But the living soul takes his beginning from the earth: for it profits only those already among the Faithful, to contain themselves from the love of this world, that so their soul may live unto Thee, which was dead while it lived in pleasures; in death-bringing pleasures, Lord, for Thou, Lord, art the life-giving delight of the pure heart.

    The Confessions 1999

  • The death-bringing black of night This is not the way.

    The Sinkiang Executive Hall, Adam 1978

  • Odyssey: the sirens as death-bringing singing monsters.

    MUSIC AS A DIVINE ART REINHOLD HAMMERSTEIN 1968

  • Ferdiad's attack, with his death-bringing, heavy blows, and his long strokes and his mighty, middle slashes at him.

    The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge Unknown

  • In days that were done; then the death-bringing moment

    Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Lesslie [Translator] Hall

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