"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
... eldest son and hope of a proud family, educated in an atmosphere of virtue and principle, who has given promise of high and noble qualities. He falls a victim to the fashionable vice, and carries back to his hitherto untainted home the lethal influence he has imbibed. Another and another, within the range of that influence, suffers for his lapse from moral rectitude, and they in turn become the agents and disseminators ...
— Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations • William Howe
... Professor said [with a quick glance at BERTLEY] he felt there was nothing for some of these poor devils but a lethal chamber. ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... old-time tailor at his work: one gets, as it were, a crow's-eye view of him. Such, I imagine, was his universal aspect, cross-legged on a bench in his little stall or beside his open window, more skilled with shears and needle than with lethal weapon, despite the gallant brigade of tailors who went to battle under the banner of Queen Elizabeth. Yet I cannot imagine my own tailor sitting cross-legged beside an open window; nor, for that matter, sitting cross-legged anywhere, except perhaps on the sands of the sea ...
— The Perfect Gentleman • Ralph Bergengren
... whether we refer the happenings of life to an all-wise Providence, or to a scientific order which is so because it is so, they remain alike incommensurable with our ethical feeling. The bullet of a crazed fanatic, or a lethal germ in a glass of water, may end the noblest career in horrible suffering. In the drama, it is true, we prefer that no use be made of such mad calamities and that what befalls a man shall at least seem to grow out of his character. But then a man's character is ...
— The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller • Calvin Thomas
... suicide; kill oneself, make away with oneself, put an end to oneself, put an end to it all. Adj. killing &c v.; murderous, slaughterous; sanguinary, sanguinolent^; blood stained, blood thirsty; homicidal, red handed; bloody, bloody minded; ensanguined^, gory; thuggish. mortal, fatal, lethal; dead, deadly; mortiferous^, lethiferous^; unhealthy &c 657; internecine; suicidal. sporting; piscatorial, piscatory^. Adv. in at the death. Phr. assassination has never changed the history of ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... essentially a baseline player of marvellous accuracy of shot and speed of foot. His drive is a lethal weapon that spreads destruction among his opponents. His backhand is a severe "poke," none too accurate, but very deadly when it goes in. His service overhead and high volley are all severe and reliable. His low volley is the weak spot in an otherwise ...
— The Art of Lawn Tennis • William T. Tilden, 2D |
