manslayers

Deuteronomy 19:3 = establish cities of refuge where manslayers can flee

In our mouths and in our hearts: Day 40 | Jewschool 2007

Our translators, by rendering the word "flying for refuge," manifest that they had respect to the manslayers flying to the city of refuge under the Old Testament: and this way go sundry interpreters.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

He Whom the world hath wronged (may my life be offered for His loved ones) was four times banished from city to city, till at last condemned to perpetual confinement, He was incarcerated in this Prison, the prison of highway robbers, of brigands and of manslayers.

Bahá’í Administration 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

THUS regarding his sacred chiefs and kings as charged with a mysterious spiritual force which so to say explodes at contact, the savage naturally ranks them among the dangerous classes of society, and imposes upon them the same sort of restraints that he lays on manslayers, menstruous women, and other persons whom he looks upon with a certain fear and horror.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

THUS regarding his sacred chiefs and kings as charged with a mysterious spiritual force which so to say explodes at contact, the savage naturally ranks them among the dangerous classes of society, and imposes upon them the same sort of restraints that he lays on manslayers, menstruous women, and other persons whom he looks upon with a certain fear and horror.

Chapter 20. Tabooed Persons. § 2. Mourners tabooed 1922

And therefore they must be fain to seek for war, to the end they may ever have practiced soldiers and cunning manslayers, less that (as it is prettily said of Sallust) their hands and their minds through idleness or lack of exercise should wax dull.

The First Book. The First Book of the Communication of Raphael Hythloday, Concerning the Best State of a Commonwealth 1909

I recall two exiled bank presidents, one army paymaster under a cloud, a couple of manslayers, and a widow -- arsenic, I believe, was the suspicion in her case.

Cabbages and Kings 1904

THUS regarding his sacred chiefs and kings as charged with a mysterious spiritual force which so to say explodes at contact, the savage naturally ranks them among the dangerous classes of society, and imposes upon them the same sort of restraints that he lays on manslayers, menstruous women, and other persons whom he looks upon with a certain fear and horror.

The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

The Monumbo of Potsdam Harbour, 227 _sq. _; their beliefs concerning the spirits of the dead, 228 _sq. _; their fear of ghosts, 229; their treatment of manslayers, 229 _sq.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

This interpretation of the ceremonies observed by manslayers among many peoples might be supported by a large array of evidence; but to go into the matter fully would lead me into a long digression.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897