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He saw Lyra's expression change into a stunned, weary horror as she realized the wizard was bound, helpless against her; there was no skill, no honor, not even choice hi her death-giving.

Harpist in the Wind McKillip, Patricia A. 1979

As I have said, everything the man owned in life is burnt and the village is deserted; all move right away to get out of the presence of the death-giving spirit.

Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray

To the east, where the Rhine flowed and where the mountains were, some reckless soul might manage it in a night's journeying, if he would brave the lonesome fastnesses; though even there the meshes of forbidding wire, charged with a death-giving voltage, stretched across the path.

Tom Slade with the Boys Over There Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

Again, they who live in the senses cannot guard themselves against sins, and this is because all sensuality is death-giving, therefore they who live in sensuality live in death, and thus they cannot guard themselves against death, hence they must needs fall.

The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910

But in 1844 the darkness had not passed from the United States, though thousands of her noblest sons saw the light, and sorrowed o'er the sin; the storm might not be avoided, but must break in death-giving force upon them.

The Tragedy of the Negro in America: A Condensed History of the Enslavement, Sufferings, Emancipation, Present Condition and Progress of the Negro Race in the United States of America P. Thomas Stanford 1897

No wanderer through the moonlit groves now fears or hopes the sweet, death-giving gleam of Aphrodite's face.

Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow 1893

And Gettysburg's guns, with their death-giving roar,

Dreams and Days: Poems George Parsons Lathrop 1874

Then with great deliberation he rose, lit a candle, unlocked a case of pocket-pistols, and loaded them: but a second idea coming into his head, he drew the bullet out of one, and lay down again with a luxurious speculation on the choice any hand might possibly make of the life-sparing or death-giving of those two weapons.

Sandra Belloni — Volume 7 George Meredith 1868

Then with great deliberation he rose, lit a candle, unlocked a case of pocket-pistols, and loaded them: but a second idea coming into his head, he drew the bullet out of one, and lay down again with a luxurious speculation on the choice any hand might possibly make of the life-sparing or death-giving of those two weapons.

Sandra Belloni — Complete George Meredith 1868

Then with great deliberation he rose, lit a candle, unlocked a case of pocket-pistols, and loaded them: but a second idea coming into his head, he drew the bullet out of one, and lay down again with a luxurious speculation on the choice any hand might possibly make of the life-sparing or death-giving of those two weapons.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868