Murther

Consternation, being assured that it would pass for Wilful Murther, by reason of that Variance in which they used to live.

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

Consternation, being assured that it would pass for Wilful Murther, by reason of that Variance in which they used to live.

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

If any be Indicted or Appealed, for the Death of any evil disposed persons Attempting to Murther, Rob, or Burglariously or Feloniously to Break any Mansion House and the same is so found by Verdict he shall Forfeit no Lands or Goods for the same, but shall be fully Acquitted thereof....

The Volokh Conspiracy » Burglariously: 2007

I incurred all the Guilt of deliberate self Murther, if

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Smith, 17 April 1764 1963

_Macbeth_'s Lady say's, before the Murther of the King.

A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney

Just at this junction the kitchen door opened, and Bridget, who had observed these high proceedings from the window, put out her head and screamed "Murther!" on hearing which

The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives Elizabeth Strong Worthington

King, upon whose doleful Murther he set up the Sign of the _Mourning

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

Innocentium_ (1683, p. 113), he says: "It hath been a Custom, and yet is elsewhere, to whip up the Children upon _Innocents 'day_ morning, that the memory of this Murther might stick the closer, and, in a moderate proportion, to act over again the cruelty in kind."

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

Pieces of this Sort, conducted with Propriety, and carrying Application to ourselves, can scarcely be desireable; But as they are generally conducted, they amount only to giving us an absurd Representation of a Murther committed by some furious foaming _Basha_, or _Sultan_.

An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris

To one that hath committed Murther, if the Judge should only ordain a Fine, it were a madness to call this a punishment, and to repine at the sentence, rather than admire the clemency of the Judge.

Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923