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Sentences starting with murder

Murder had been committed near the border, and Halby was needed at once. [11]

Sentences ending with murder

That is a wild place--wild and lonely; an ideal place for a murder. [5]
These speculations were unemphasized sensations rather than articulated thoughts, for Wilson would have laughed at the idea of seriously connecting Tom with the murder. [5]
Where game flies toward us in such quantities, hunting becomes almost murder. [10]
He felt that to stay near the man was to be tempted to murder. [9]
He was face to face with his first dastardly murder. [10]
As he stood there listening, hatred and horror in his heart, a voice said to him: "Thou shalt do no murder. [11]
Trust me; before the Nile has risen again, a powerful army will have entered Egypt, to demand satisfaction for this murder. [10]
But it is the custom of the place for political errors to be punished by a hidden hand; we do not call it murder. [11]
But I know that thou desirest justice, not murder. [10]
You remind me that the Church in old time accepted gifts from the spoils of war, and I will add of rapine and murder. [9]

Short sentences using murder

He means murder, y'r honour. [9]
Do you permit murder? [11]
Now about this murder. [5]
It's that dreadful murder. [5]
Well, would it be murder? [5]
Was murder intended? [11]
This is murder. [11]
It was murder. [11]
A murder! [9]

Sentences containing murder two or more times

To take the life of one of their prisoners on the assumption that they murder ours, when it is short of certainty that they do murder ours, might be too serious, too cruel, a mistake. [7]
If they killed, it was murder, and the law wouldn't stand murder. [5]
The whole story is centered on the murder and the trial; from the first chapter the movement is straight ahead without divergence or side-play to the murder and the trial; everything that is done or said or that happens is a preparation for those events. [5]
Her members, and even her priests, had gone from murder to mass and from mass to murder, and she had engaged in cruel wars and persecutions to curtail the liberties of mankind. [9]
If I should be indicted for murder, and upon the trial it should be discovered that I had been implicated in that murder, but that the prosecuting witness was guilty too, that would not at all touch the question of my crime. [7]
The murder of an empress then--even the assassination of Caesar himself--could not electrify the world as this murder has electrified it. [5]

More example sentences with the word murder in them

Y' been hurt, y'rself, 'n' the' 's murder come pooty nigh happenin'. [6]
You'd made up your mind to murder somebody this mornin'--I knowed it perfectly well. [5]
Even as he would have understood the peasant's murder of King Louis, so he would have seen a logical end to a terrible game in Bigot's death at the hand of Voban. [11]
Nothing in the world affords a newspaper reporter so much satisfaction as gathering up the details of a bloody and mysterious murder and writing them up with aggravating circumstantiality. [5]
Losing all patience with him, gave Mithoo, one of the gang, 5 rupees ($2.50) to murder him, and take the sin upon himself. [5]
Then the canister, which produced ghastly murder, chain-shot to bring down masts and spars, langrel to fire at masts and rigging, and the dismantling shot to tear off sails, were all made ready. [11]
The grounds on which Caracalla had based the assertion that destiny had compelled him to murder Geta appeared to her young and inexperienced mind as indisputable. [10]
You might as well murder somebody and have the credit of it, as get into the newspapers the way I have. [5]
As it was, we stopped what might have been our murder by saying it would be wiser to hold us as hostages, and that we were Americans. [11]
And mind you we don't know anything about any murder, or any di'monds, or any thieves--don't you forget that. [5]
The wizard's rope we disallow Was justice once,--is murder now! [6]
And when he was tried three months later for murder, some one else said this for him, and the hearts of all, judge and jury, were so moved they knew not what to do. [11]
That the murder was in cold blood, deliberate and without provocation; that it had been long premeditated and threatened; that she had followed the deceased-from Washington to commit it. [5]
Fortunately, a murder was committed in one of our suburbs, creating a mystery that filled the "extras" for some weeks, and this was opportunely followed by the embezzlement of a considerable sum by the cashier of one of our state banks. [9]
Now a witness was called who testified that he found Muff Potter washing in the brook, at an early hour of the morning that the murder was discovered, and that he immediately sneaked away. [5]
I did not want to see the murder done, and yet I could not take my eyes away. [5]
Suddenly, while we waited for murder, a tall figure shot out of the door past the widow, the pistol flew out of Tipton's hand, and Tipton swung about with something like a bellow, to face Mr. Nicholas Temple. [9]
The murder of Vindex and his nephew had been the death-blow of this hope. [10]
Nobody in the village approved of that murder, but of course no one said much about it. [5]
The Commissioner was uncertain what to do, as the Crees were restless through want of food and the absence of game, and a force sent to capture Arrowhead, the chief who had committed the murder, might precipitate trouble. [11]
In the deep twilight of that forest solitude four desperate rascals--Burgess, Sullivan, Levy, and Kelley--ambushed themselves beside the mountain-trail to murder and rob four travelers--Kempthorne, Mathieu, Dudley, and De Pontius, the latter a New Yorker. [5]
A voice within told him, that his brother's murder would be branded as a cowardly, unnatural, and unjust deed, and he shuddered at the thought. [10]
You--you ask me to yield to them, when you have lost your son, when they're willing to sacrifice--to murder my son on the field of battle? [9]
If you want to murder, you will open the gates at once; but if it is punishment, if you are an executioner, you will give me time to pray. [11]
Had he meant to murder me, I reflected, he had done the business long since. [9]
I'd ridden in to Fort Desire from another duty, a matter of a hundred miles, whin the major says to me, 'There's murder been done at Moose Horn. [11]
It was clear to everyone that the jury must return a verdict of wilful murder, and it was equally clear that the evidence was sufficient to fix suspicion upon Orlando, which must lead to his arrest. [11]
The murder of Titianus has snapped them all. [10]
And in that time there is always a moment --perhaps only a single one when they would do murder if their man was at hand. [5]
She felt as though she bore a charm against his power since she had parted from her lover, and since the murder of the governor had opened her eyes to the true character of him on whom she had all too willingly expended her pity. [10]
Some think that this murder is a frenzied revolt against the criminal militarism which is impoverishing Europe and driving the starving poor mad. [5]
One last revolting thing alone remains to be done--the murder of the King; then this France that we have loved will have no name and no place in our generation. [11]
Of the murder there could not be the least doubt, or that the prisoner followed the deceased to New York with a murderous intent: On the evidence the jury must convict, and might do so without leaving their seats. [5]
You are drilling them now that they may murder your own blood when you think the time is ripe. [9]
Rough misdemeanours among them had been many, there had once been a murder in the parish, but the undefined horrors of infidelity were more shameful than crimes the eye could see. [11]
Nothing could save the twins but the discovery of a person who did the murder on his sole personal account--an undertaking which had all the aspect of the impossible. [5]
He never forgave the Spanish government for the murder of his father, nor do I blame him. [9]
They burst from the palm-trees and rushed down to the banks with cries of rage, murder, and death; for now they saw him fighting for his life. [11]
He showed that the only real evidence which could convict his man of murder was that of the witness Crozier. [11]
Away, away from the neighborhood of this net, which threatened to entangle him in murder and every deed of infamy. [10]
I wrote up the murder with a hungry attention to details, and when it was finished experienced but one regret--namely, that they had not hanged my benefactor on the spot, so that I could work him up too. [5]
The news of the murder was made the excitement of the day. [5]
Send us to the Medici: bring us to the block, murder us--that were no new thing to Lord Leicester. [11]
And, Jove's thunder, the lady to whom this plotted murder was to have been sent, is doubtless the mother of the unfortunate marquis, whom the Spanish assassin slew. [10]
The presence of the knife on the stage of the murder was a worrying circumstance for Wilson. [5]
One jerk, and the hand upraised for murder was free again--but he did not use it. [10]
The prisoner at the bar has been fairly and righteously condemned to death for the murder of the man Szczepanik, and, in my opinion, there is but one course to pursue in the matter: he must be hanged. [5]
It transfers to the banks of the Mississippi the incidents of a strange murder which was committed in Sweden in old times. [5]
With encouragement like that, I felt that I could take my pen and murder all the immigrants on the plains if need be and the interests of the paper demanded it. [5]
Then he remembered that the Widow Douglas had been kind to him more than once, and maybe these men were going to murder her. [5]
He only realised that Sinnet was not the man he was waiting for with murder in his heart; and all that mattered to him in life was the coming of his victim down the trail. [11]
Then she knew that Mr. Brinsmade was speaking:-- "From battle and murder, and from sudden death--from all sedition, privy conspiracy, and rebellion,--Good Lord, deliver us. [9]
How is it that millions of men commit collective crimes--make war, commit murder, and so on? [2]
Since murder was that man's intention, why should he palter with small details? [5]
It is possible that it has taken him the whole interval since the murder of the King of Italy to get insane enough to attempt the President's life. [5]
It irked him that he should be fighting with a farmer, as he termed the Seigneur of the Jersey Isle; but there was in the event, too, a sense of relief, for he had a will for murder. [11]
I do believe that evil will follow the murder of a man with a cow. [5]
When I say that every State prison is to be a reformatory, I except, of course, from its operation, those sentenced for life for murder, or other capital offenses, and those who have proved themselves incorrigible by repeated violations of their parole. [4]
The owners of that boat were not technically guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, but they were morally guilty of it. [5]
Men with quick tempers might quarrel over trivial things, but exasperation did not always end in bodily injury and the taking of life; imprecations were not so uncommon that they could be taken as evidence of wilful murder. [11]
Nearly every stroke takes off the skin and draws the blood, and a dozen will make the back a ditch of murder. [11]
The faces that surrounded Jim were thin with hunger, and the murder that had been committed by the chief had, as its origin, the foolish replies of the Hudson's Bay Company's man to their demand for supplies. [11]
Can a man's stomach plan a murder? [5]
Captain Maudsley said something about "romantic murder. [11]
To spite her she had committed a crime as like murder as one snake is like another, and imperilled her own mother's life! [10]
Why does he shadow a woman who wouldn't lift her finger to save him from battle, murder, or sudden death? [11]
The governor, whose sensitive nerves had been liable to such attacks of panic ever since an exiled Greek had once attempted to murder him, now soon recovered his composure, and looked with great admiration at the hanging round which the family were standing. [10]
He ended by saying that the verdict must be acquittal or murder in the first, degree. [5]
Would the jury say that this retributive justice, inflicted by an outraged, and deluded woman, rendered irrational by the most cruel wrongs, was in the nature of a foul, premeditated murder? [5]
She would not say by whom he had been murdered, but his murder had never been avenged. [10]
The hotel clerk said that he noticed there was murder in the woman's eye when he saw her. [5]
The other, however, refused gravely, saying he might forfeit his own life by doing so, as a law existed in Egypt by which the concealer of a murder was condemned to death. [10]
The grand jury presently indicted Luigi for murder in the first degree, and Angelo as accessory before the fact. [5]
The Indian always preceded murder by the war-whoop; and this was an advantage that the artillery had in the fight with the elderberry Indians. [4]
He releases the poor wretches' feet, and wants me to burden my soul with a shameful murder. [10]
It's a good place, and there's lots of first-class people here, but there's a few offscourings that hang like wolves on the edge of the sheepfold, ready to murder and git. [11]
If to some people," he went on, turning to Anna Pavlovna, "he ever was a hero, after the murder of the duc there was one martyr more in heaven and one hero less on earth. [2]
We got the particulars with little loss of time, for it was only an inferior sort of bar-room murder, and of little interest to the public, and then we separated. [5]
I'm not going out to murder your churchman. [13]
With murder and other crimes of violence he has but little to do: he is a stranger to the hangman. [5]
Rapine, murder, tyranny, oppression, were round him on every side, and the ruler of the land called him to his counsels. [11]
If it should only occur to them, they would raise murder to the dignity of god of gods, and you to be his high-priest. [10]
Further she went on to say to "our sister of England" that "these dark figures of murder and revolt be a peril to the soft peace of this good realm. [11]
The charge, however, on the instigation of the Attorney-General, who was grateful for the information about France, had been changed from murder to manslaughter; though it seemed clear that Boyne had been ruthlessly killed by a man whom he had befriended. [11]
The mightiest realm on earth owes its power to murder and rapine; but now sudden destruction is coming on the insatiate city, and visitation for her sins. [10]
You know the old phrase, 'Killing no murder. [11]
The unrestrained license of whisky and assault and murder had produced a reaction a few months previous to our visit. [4]
The dreadful secret of the murder was a chronic misery. [5]
It's a matter of murder or the like, and duty must be done, and me that sleepy, not forgettin' your presence, as ever a man was and looked the world in the face. [11]
All the conditions of intense excitement meet in a murder trial. [5]
By the argument of counsel it was shown that at half past ten in the morning on the day of the murder, Baldwin became insane, and remained so for eleven hours and a half exactly. [5]
In order that nothing should be wanting to the ordinary course of a civilized community, a murder was committed. [4]
Yet he had not thought of murder. [11]
So, you must not disturb the man who robs you of house and land, and tries to murder you, lest he should be disturbed and not sleep o' nights. [11]
What was coming next,--a declaration, or an accusation of murder? [6]
Mrs. Clemens says my version of the blindfold novelette "A Murder and A Marriage" is "good. [5]
Other wise it must have occurred to you that if you attempted this murder with a sad heart and a heavy conscience, I would droop under the burdening in influence instantly. [5]
It was no murder, it was punishment. [11]
Jago; Spain, blood, murder, fire, pillage]--but Navarrete was silent, striding onward, erect and haughty, as if he were proof against the bullets, that whistled around him on all sides. [10]
They yell bloody murder when they do find out, but generally it's too late, if a bill's been handled right. [9]

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