death-doing

Brawny fighters, all cased in buff and iron, their hearts too sheathed in oak and triple brass, caprioled their huge war-horses, shook their death-doing spears; and went forth in the most determined manner, nothing doubting.

Paras. 25-49 1909

Come, each death-doing dog who dares venture his neck,

Hot Stuff 1884

I wish myself back again, as you told me I should, but not because a thin, death-doing, pestiferous north-east wind blows in a line directly from Crazy Castle turret fresh upon me in this cuckoldly retreat (for I value the north-east wind and all its powers not a straw), but the transition from rapid motion to absolute rest was too violent.

Sterne Traill, H D 1882

"All in a death-doing autumn-dripping gloom," we found ourselves in a world which was the dim ghost of the English country we had so loved in the summer.

London Films William Dean Howells 1878

Come, each death-doing dog who dares venture his neck,

Montcalm and Wolfe Francis Parkman 1858

The feline heart laboured, as with steam up-to the bursting point; and death-doing energy nerved every muscle: they had a work there; and did it!

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

Dampmartin now dines; or sees death-doing whiskerandoes on furlough exhibit daggers of improved structure!

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

The feline Heart laboured, as with steam up -- to the bursting point; and death-doing energy nerved every muscle: they had a work there; and did it!

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

Had he done so, his love of death-doing had at length fallen upon a proper object, a true child of Satan.

Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra William Ware 1824

Secure in these invulnerable envelopments, his worship had rested content, although severed from his own death-doing weapons, of rapier, poniard, and pistols, which were placed nevertheless, at no great distance from his chair.

Peveril of the Peak 1822