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Sentences starting with killing

Killing is awful, but not shameful. [11]
Killing people! [2]

Sentences ending with killing

I should prefer, unless your vanity leads you irresistibly in that direction, something with mature life and amusement; or, at least, life and incident, and good sport--if you do not dwell on the horrors of killing. [11]
She may mean to kiss and will end by killing. [11]
The dogs do the hunting, the men the killing. [4]
I've got to take to a life that fits me, an ex-jailbird, a man that's been in prison for killing! [11]
What, talk you of killing? [5]
The joy of killing! [5]
It will be exhibited at the coroner's inquest, and will be damning proof of the fact of the killing. [5]
Bump came the big shallop on the beach, and at that moment I ordered my men to fire, but to aim wide, for I had another end in view than killing. [11]
And the world also makes some curious distinctions in the art of killing. [4]
Judkins, tell me all you saw--all you know about this killing. [13]

Short sentences using killing

But it was killing work. [4]
It is a killing defect. [5]
He's killing himself for others. [11]
Who said anything about killing? [5]
You're killing me. [13]

Sentences containing killing two or more times

History shows us that these justifications of the events have no common sense and are all contradictory, as in the case of killing a man as the result of recognizing his rights, and the killing of millions in Russia for the humiliation of England. [2]
It cannot be denied that we are so constituted by a wise Creator as to feel a delight in killing a wild animal which we do not experience in killing a tame one. [4]

More example sentences with the word killing in them

You are killing yourself with worry. [11]
The words "murdered your mother" haunted her, and she remembered the law of the ancients which refused to prescribe a punishment for the killing of parents, because they considered such a monstrous deed impossible. [10]
After almost killing you I've pulled you through. [13]
I only know you are charged with killing a bad man, notorious in Dublin life, and that many think he got his just deserts in being killed. [11]
Cox answered he would starve.... then told him he would only be killing himself. [5]
Some of us would have been killed, but--" He then told what had been in his mind, and what might be the outcome-- the killing or capture of the whole group, and safety for all at Salem. [11]
At Easter the whole city learned that Don Luis d'Avila had eloped with the beautiful Anna Van Hoogstraten, after killing her betrothed bridegroom in a duel on Maundy-Thursday at Hals on his way to Brussels--scarcely twenty-four hours before the wedding. [10]
Going into Cairo, we came near killing a steamboat which paid no attention to our whistle and then tried to cross our bows. [5]
And there's no way of killing him either. [2]
Its huge mouth was open, and all its fierce lust for killing showed again in its wild lunges. [11]
Always, when he was not on the point of crying over a holy place, he was on the point of killing an Arab. [5]
They thought I was killing myself. [5]
I think he was genuinely fond of birds, but, so far as I know, he usually confined himself to one a day; he never killed, as some sportsmen do, for the sake of killing, but only as civilized people do,--from necessity. [4]
Coming up here was a killing job. [13]
At the Palace two days past thou saidst thou hadst never killed a man; and I know that thy religion condemns killing even in war. [11]
If it was to your credit, even if they believe you guilty of killing Erris Boyne, they'd touch you lightly. [11]
He didn't seem to know any way to do a person a favor except by killing him or making a lunatic out of him. [5]
It was impossible to give further orders for the sake of killing time, for the orders had all been given and were now being executed. [2]
It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries--and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another. [2]
And on both these occasions the circumstances of the killing were so aggravated, and the murders so seemingly heartless and treacherous, that if Baldwin had not been insane he would have been hanged without the shadow of a doubt. [5]
In my opinion there isn't anything that is as killing as one of those dear old ripe pensioners if you know how to snatch it out in a kind of a fresh sort of original way. [5]
Men went from the west to the east killing their fellow men, and the event was accompanied by phrases about the glory of France, the baseness of England, and so on. [2]
I have borne the name of killing Erris Boyne, and I ought to have killed him, for he was a traitor. [11]
But go with the firm intention of killing your man as quickly and surely as possible, and then all will be right, as our bear huntsman at Kostroma used to tell me. [2]
Some matters in the Enterprise account of the killing of Reeder are worth nothing--especially the accommodating complaisance of a Virginia justice of the peace. [5]
As he closed the door softly, killing entered his mind and stayed there. [11]
I broke into the conversation, which was about poetry and cabbage and art, and said to my wife-- "Do you remember when the news came to Paris----" "Of the killing of the Prince? [5]
He struggled against the confession of his weakness but dimly felt that he could not overcome it and that his former gloomy frame of mind, concerning vengeance, killing, and self-sacrifice, had been dispersed like dust by contact with the first man he met. [2]
It was considered that the parties who did the killing had their private reasons for it; for other people to meddle would have been looked upon as indelicate. [5]
Do you think that the Baas would want his life through the killing of Piet Graaf by his friend Krool, the slim one from the slime? [11]
The fellow answered that Captain Clapsaddle's honour was killing Mr. Allen, and went out; and came back presently to say that some tall gentleman had the captain by the neck, and that Mr. Allen was picking his way down the ice on the steps outside. [9]
I love our sweet, patient Bathsheba,--yes, and the old man that has spoken so kindly with me, good Master Gridley; I hate to give you pain,--to leave you all,--but my way of life is killing me, and I am too young to die. [6]
In Hungary the suffering is great, and the people are killing the sheep to feed the pigs with the mutton. [6]
In 1807 he suddenly made friends with him, but in 1811 they again quarreled and again began killing many people. [2]
To throw a stone with as true an aim as a Fuegian in defending himself, or in killing birds, requires the most consummate perfection in the correlated action of the muscles of the hand, arm, and shoulder, and, further, a fine sense of touch. [1]
I've never been sorry for killing him--never--never--never. [11]
A system of some sort was killing him--Pierre--depriving him of life, of everything, annihilating him. [2]
It's ten years since he did the killing, down in Quebec, and I don't suppose the police will get him now. [11]
It is a sickness that gives raging pain--like a poisoned arrow in an open wound, and devours all that is near it like a fire-brand, and is harder to cure than the disease which is killing that coughing wench. [10]
But that you should kill him, apart from all else--why, indeed, oh, indeed, it is a tragedy, for you loved my daughter, and the killing made a gulf between you! [11]
Several of his shot crushed through the bulwarks in front of me, shattering a nine-pounder and killing half of its crew. [9]
He had been set to labour in the nickel mines; but that came near to killing him, and again through Laflamme's pleading he had been made a prisoner of the first class, and so relieved of all heavy tasks. [11]
It is, to say the least, more probable that he was in an attorney's office than that he was a butcher killing calves 'in a high style,' and making speeches over them. [5]
In Paris, mobs roared through the streets nightly, sacking, burning, killing, unmolested, uninterrupted. [5]
He liked to read of war, of encounters with the Indians, of any kind of wholesale killing in glittering uniform, to the noise of the terribly exciting fife and drum, which maddened the combatants and drowned the cries of the wounded. [4]
Isn't it just possible that he did the killing himself? [5]
They advance rapidly, picking right and left, with military precision, killing the foe and disposing of the dead bodies with the same peck. [4]
You saw this person and that go out, and you think to hold them in your dirty clutches; but you had more reason than any for killing Mr. [11]
In their swift passage from the Palace to the carriage, a thing had been done of even greater moment than the killing of the sensualist in the next room. [11]
At least the paper died with that issue, and none but envious people have ever tried to rob me of the honour and credit of killing it. [5]
For it turned out that the pictures did not represent the killing of Lulu at all, nor anything connected with Lulu. [5]
As he rode on a hundred fancies passed through his brain, and they all had to do with killing or torturing. [11]
He had them on a dead run, but not yet at the last strained and killing pace. [13]
After the killing of thirty-nine men and one woman, the fakeer appears on the scene: "Approaching Doregow, met 3 pundits; also a fakeer, mounted on a pony; he was plastered over with sugar to collect flies, and was covered with them. [5]
Anybody could think of killing a man who had injured him, as the master-carpenter had done Jean Jacques. [11]
Thus the people of Jamaica came to know that Dyck Calhoun was innocent of the crime of killing Erris Boyne, and he was made the object of splashing admiration, and was almost mobbed by admirers in the street. [11]
Strangely his foreshadowing of change did not hold a thought of the killing of Tull. [13]
She remembered it now, and the evidence had been that she was in her own home when the killing took place. [11]
But you did not see the ball leave the gun, pass through the air, and enter the body of the slain; and your testimony to the fact of killing is, therefore, only inferential,--in other words, circumstantial. [3]
If there was no war-whoop, the killing did n't count; the artillery man got up and killed the Indian. [4]
Fortunately it contained no statement save the bare facts connected with the killing of Erris Boyne, and no reference to the earlier life of the dead man. [11]
If he appears nervous and uneasy an hour before the killing, he is insane. [5]
Listen: if there must be killing, why not be the great Roman--drunk! [11]
He never forgave Mr. Addison for killing stout, old Sir Roger de Coverley, and would never listen to the butler's account of his death. [9]
You see, your mother knows the truth--knows that I was jailed for killing your father and her divorced husband. [11]
They think no more of killing a man--" "Than an Australian squatter does of dispersing a mob of aboriginals or kangaroos," said Clovelly. [11]
If she could mitigate his hatred of Mormons, or at least keep him from killing more of them, not only would she be saving her people, but also be leading back this bloodspiller to some semblance of the human. [13]
Spelman took the message and brought back the English reply, whereupon Powhatan laid the plot which resulted in the killing of Captain Ratcliffe and thirty-eight men, only two of his company escaping to Jamestown. [4]
I do not know the story of the killing, even as it was told in court. [11]
I do not know that we ever apply to a plant any element which is not a natural constituent of the vegetable structure, except perhaps externally, for the accidental purpose of killing parasites. [3]
By these, I know that in India the tiger kills something over 800 persons every year, and that the government responds by killing about double as many tigers every year. [5]
It isn't the killing," he added after a moment's silence--"it isn't the killing that hurts so. [11]
You speak of killing Philip d'Avranche, and yet you dare to say you are my friend! [11]
He believed the killing of the rustler and the subsequent excitement had disturbed him. [13]
Sid says I'm killing myself, but I've found a little massage woman who is wonderful. [9]
When I stop killing I shall be killed. [11]
Mr. Calhoun was jailed for killing my father--let it be at that. [11]
Night before last Jack Williams was assassinated, and yesterday forenoon we had more bloody work, growing out of the killing of Williams, and on the same street in which he met his death. [5]
Sometimes I carried it myself when I charged the enemy, to avoid killing any one. [5]
Of late years it does not seem possible for a man to so conduct himself, before killing another man, as not to be manifestly insane. [5]
The old man is getting ready to make another killing, that's all. [9]
He who purified himself from blood-guiltiness after killing the Python is the god of expiation. [10]
Carnac had saved him from killing Denzil. [11]
The Swallow, with her twenty-odd guns, did better work, and carried away the foremast of the enemy, killing several men. [11]
Thereupon I questioned her in haste and fear, and she answered me with reserve, till, on a sudden, she cried: "It is killing me! [10]
I don't believe he'd mind throttling me, and dropping me softly into the river when the tide was at its strongest, any more than he'd mind killing a rat--indeed I don't know whether he wouldn't consider it a pleasant joke. [12]
I could not have gotten more real comfort out of him without killing him. [5]
The public would have considered the killing of Mazarine before the eyes of the world as justifiable homicide; its dislike of the man would have induced it to add the word justifiable. [11]
To this Sheila had said that the killing of a man whose life was bad might be punishable. [11]
He understood: Radisson had escaped by killing his guard. [11]
He knew he had been found guilty of killing my father, and that for him and me there could be no marriage--indeed he never asked me to marry him. [11]
He no longer had a cold, but a mortal trouble that was killing him inch by inch. [11]
I'll accept your friendship--be proud of it--return it--if I may keep you from killing another Mormon. [13]
To save my friends from the pain of killing me I fled and lived; but at last here at this place I said to myself that I must die. [11]
We was bound for the sycamores when we heard them killing him in there; but we was in there in the early morning after the storm and allowed nobody hadn't been killed, after all. [5]
I was imprisoned for killing your father, Erris Boyne, and that separates us like an abysss. [11]
I was condemned for killing your father, and the world knows that Erris Boyne was your father, and here Lord Mallow, the governor, knows it; and there is no chance of friendship between you and me. [11]
I was condemned for killing a man not in fair fight. [11]
Then who was executing him, killing him, depriving him of life--him, Pierre, with all his memories, aspirations, hopes, and thoughts? [2]
He examined his enemy to see that he was securely tied, and then went to bed, content to wait till morning before enjoying the luxury of killing him. [5]

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