manslaying

A heavy blade between sword and dagger, with curved back and straight edge, fitted for almost any use. ii The fine to be paid in amends for an open "manslaying" in quarrel or feud. iii The ancient Welsh province now represented by the county of

A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex 1884

"That was quite another matter then," says Hall; "ye were then wroth with fight, and, besides, ye have done great deeds in the way of manslaying since."

The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown

Then godlike Theoclymenus spake to him again: ‘Even so I too have fled from my country, for the manslaying of one of mine own kin.

Book XV Homer 1909

"The charge is _homocidium_, or manslaying, with or without malice prepense --"

The Splendid Spur Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

But, my master, thou shalt know that this manslaying was not for nought: whereas the Baron of Greenlake had erewhile slain

Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair 1895

Revival of delight in manslaying -- what woman could ever resist a uniform?

Our Friend the Charlatan George Gissing 1880

Then godlike Theoclymenus spake to him again: 'Even so I too have fled from my country, for the manslaying of one of mine own kin.

The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878

And the women fell to jealousy and quarrelling as women will, and they dragged the friends into the feud, and one manslaying after another befell, till that great murder of men in the Hall of Atli, the King.

Essays in Little Andrew Lang 1878

As the lips of the rearing breaker with froth of the manslaying flood.

Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

But they came to Burgstead and found the Alderman, and in due time was a Court held, and a finding uttered, and outlawry given forth for the manslaying and the ransacking against certain men unknown.

The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865