At the sight, I remembered that I had there a power, which, as I had proved earlier, seemed as fatal to those monsters as to more ordinary animals; and I determined I would take the offensive.

The contentions of the morning had delayed their advance until about nine o'clock, and the hard feelings which existed between the commander and some of his officers caused a degree of insubordination which proved fatal in its consequences....

The main line will be torn to pieces, for retreat is as fatal as advance.

It subjects the body to more abundant disorders, and especially to those of the depressive, adynamic type, which, from the want of the usual recuperative power, are more fatal than the diseases of civil life.

It was an old Florentine misericordia, a long thin, triangular blade, a quarter of an inch wide at its greatest width, tapering to a needle-point, with a hilt of yellow ivory, the most deadly and fatal of all the daggers and poignards of the Middle Ages.

That was fatal for Kurt, because in his fury he forgot Glidden's comrades.

Look without winkin'; it's fatal at a short distancea very good thing to learn, when ye've a little spare time.

But the partial and fragmentary statements of Dr. Mann, in his "Medical Sketches," and the occasional and apparently incidental allusions to the diseases and deaths by the commanding officers, in their letters and despatches to the Secretary of War, show that sickness was sometimes fearfully prevalent and fatal among our soldiers.

A halting, vacillating, undecided course, now idle, now overstrained, is more fatal on a plantation than in any other kind of businessruinous as it is in any.

New oak casks are fatal from the tannin which soaks out; fir casks are safe and good.

It is a shrewd saying of Vauvenargues, that it is "un grand signe de médiocrité de louer toujours modérément," and we have no desire to expose the "Atlantic" to a charge so fatal by showing ourselves cold to the uncommon merits of Mr. Allibone's achievement.

Croup is always sudden in its attack, and rapid in its career, usually proving fatal within three days; most frequently commences in the night, and generally attacking children between the ages of three and ten years.