Murders
[mə:dəz]
Examples
- I should think you'll read the marriages, probably, miss, and the murders, and the accidents, and sich like? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Give me a rope, or I shall do three more murders and kill myself. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Murders, revolts, chastisements, disasters, cunning alliances, and base betrayals, and no Herodotus to record them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Neither murders nor visions interest him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I know it may be very dear--but it murders our marriage--and then the marriage stays with us like a murder--and everything else is gone. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Sir Leicester's cousins, in the remotest degree, are so many murders in the respect that they will out. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Whenever that strain is found in any race, there are to be found also thoughts and legends of sacrificial murders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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