Killed

Examples

• There was no Adrian to superintend and direct, while whole flocks of the poor were struck and killed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Fifty thousand men are said to have been killed and ten thousand prisoners taken. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Muhammad was knocked down and nearly killed, and there was much running away among his followers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I had never before beheld one killed by pestilence. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And the rigid examination system that killed all intellectual initiatives has been destroyed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And she could have killed them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• These were not enemies; they were born among us, and yet we have killed them all. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• If I had--killed your--mother with my own hand--I should not deserve such a scourging to the bone as this. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• And I might have killed him with this. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• You were enormous in the last bull, she would say to him and he would say, Yes, I killed him very well. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He was all but killed, ma'am, when I come in. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Schofield's loss, as officially reported, was 189 killed, 1,033 wounded, and 1,104 captured and missing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Our total loss (not including Burnside's) in all these engagements amounted to 757 killed, 4,529 wounded and 330 missing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But a disease killed all the vines fifteen years ago, and since that time no wine has been made. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But our troops had to bury the dead, and found that more Confederate than Union soldiers had been killed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• When they heard the news, one was too ill to move; the other made his helot guide him to the battle, and there struck blindly until he was killed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The monkey was killed, and an order made, that no such animal should be kept about the palace. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• He killed them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He was very intelligent and it was very intelligent that he was killed. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• And now in your stupidity have you come and killed all but myself, and like to have killed the mighty Sator Throg himself. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The approximate loss was upward of five hundred killed, but few of the officers escaping. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Our casualties during these operations amounted to 394 killed, I,554 wounded and 324 missing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The fact that they alone of all the party were unarmed might account for the fact that they had killed no one. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I am haunted by the fear that our coming to Milton has killed her. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Britain, at the expense of three millions, has killed one hundred and fifty Yankees this campaign, which is 20,000_l. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Burnham was killed in the assault. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I shall be killed if-- Silence! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• After he was killed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• These limp ones are two I killed today at work; but as they don't die till the sun goes down they can't be very stale meat. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He was going to marry me and he was killed in the Somme. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

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