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  • Thus vpon the filthie affection of one noble man, issued paricide, murder, rebellion, hatred, depriuing of magistrates, and great mischiefes succedinge one in an others necke; whereupon the noble and victorious citie, was lyke to be a praye to forren nations.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • Claudius vpon mee, ne yet that I am a paricide and murderer of mine own children: the life of my dear doughter had bene more acceptable to me then mine owne life, if so be shee might haue continued a free woman, and an honest virgine.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • Thou whom thy fate has changed into paricide and savage!

    Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale Charles Brockden Brown 1790

  • Thrasillus, have no conference with him, eate not with him, lie not with him, avoid the bloudie hand of mine enemie, couple not thy selfe with a paricide, for those wounds (the bloud whereof thy teares did wash away) were not the wounds of the teeth of the Boare, but the speare of

    The Golden Asse 1566

  • As on the contrary, I compar'd the writings of the Ancient heathen which treated of Manner, to most proud and stately Palaces which were built only on sand and mire, they raise the vertues very high, and make them appear estimable above all the things in the world; but they doe not sufficiently instruct us in the knowledg of them, and often what they call by that fair Name, is but a stupidness, or an act of pride, or of despair, or a paricide.

    A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences Ren�� Descartes 1623

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