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a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxii. 403 (MED) Many of hem were deth wounded.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet Prol. 9 The..death-markt passage of their Parents rage.

c1604 Charlemagne (1938) ii. 30 Haueng hys deathe slayne mistres in hys armes.

1623 P. Massinger Duke of Millaine v. ii. sig. L4^v Secrets that restore To life death wounded men.

1647 H. More Philos. Poems i. iii. xxi Through the death-shadowed wood.

1767 W. Harte Amaranth 12 Empty blossom, and death-blasted leaves.

1787 M. Wollstonecraft Posthumous Wks. (1798) IV. 139 Those mansions, where death-divided friends should meet.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II App. 168 Had brav'd the death-wing'd tempest's blast.

1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna x. xiii. 218 The death-polluted land.

1832 W. Motherwell Poems 12 The dark death-laden banner.

1839 H. H. Milman Good Friday in Poet. Wks. (1840) II. 336 By thy drooping death-dew'd brow.

1871 G. MacDonald Songs of Winter Days iii. iv Death-sheeted figures, long and white.

1879 R. Browning Ivan Ivanovitch in Idyls I. 30 Each village death-begirt.

1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 161 This shuddering, delicious business..of pungent passion, of rare, death-edged ecstasy.

1937 M. Rukeyser Mediterranean 3 Still your death-afflicted eyes must hold the print of flowering guns.

1956 E. Muir Coll. Poems (1960) 225 The last stump left Of a death-wounded deer's great antlers.

1983 J. Hobhouse Dancing in Dark (1984) 193 For the first few days in Acapulco, Gabriella remained withdrawn and death-haunted.

1989 New York 16 Oct. 75/1 Though somber in color and death-shadowed, Life and Nothing But turns into a passionate and funny movie.

1996 CMJ New Music Monthly July 48/1 Sepultura thrives on death-laden, gruff vocal growls.