The wrong word would have filled that corridor with a deadly hail of lead.
The king lifted his sword, and the arrows flew skyward in a deadly hail.
They ran on through the deadly hail, determined to avenge the death of their leader.
But the reason, whatever it was, became immaterial as the two armies continued to close through the deadly hail of darts.
They began to drop a deadly hail into the advancing Pethcines.
Only 17 men out of 28 survived the deadly hail of fire.
A moment later the startled pair was cowering under a deadly hail of small, sharp-pointed stones!
A deadly hail of stones might follow when their presence was discovered.
That deadly hail was overwhelming in its power.
And the deadly hail of bullets that had murdered his mother and father and sisters.