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- noun Plural form of
murther . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
murther .
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Examples
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The 14. to dinner at Bolsan and to bed at Neumark, and by the way we passed the dangerous place, where so many murthers haue bene committed.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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_ Brother, I know your suit; these wilfull murthers
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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[Sidenote: Lycaon.] till meanes doe dailie destroie vs. Lycaon, as the Poetes doe faine, excedyng in all crueltées and murthers horrible, by the murther of straungers, that had accesse to his land: for he was king and gouernor ouer the Molossians, and in this we maie worthilie glorie of our firste blood and long auncientrée, that
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Thus, "the south alley for usurye, and poperye; the north for simony and the horse fair; in the middest for all kinds of bargains, meetings, brawlings, murthers, conspiracies; and the font for ordinary paiements of money, are so well knowne to all menne as the beggar knows his dishe."
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 Various
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Tostie two brethren the sonnes of earle Goodwine, their vnnaturall and cruell dealing one with another, speciallie of the abhominable and merciles murthers committed by Tostie, against whome the Northumbers rebell vpon diuerse occasions, and reward him with answerable reuengement; Harold is sent against them, but preuaileth not; they offer to returne home if they might haue a new gouernor; they renounce
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (8 of 8) The Eight Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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For, by crueltie their Woluishe na - tures are knowen, their glorie, strength, kyngdome and re - nowne, cometh of blood, of murthers, and beastlie dealynges and by might so violent, it continueth not: for by violence and blooddie dealyng, their kyngdome at the last falleth by blood and bloodilie perisheth.
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But to my surprize and sorrow, I have of late been informed that Lieutenant Sinclair has added to the repeated murthers the impudence of returning, an officer in a
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson
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Indians against the said _Montackett_ Sachem for hiering a witch to kill _Uncas_ with the said Milford Sachem and his son giveing eight fathom of wampam in hand promising a hundred or a hundred and twenty more when the said murthers were committed; Notice whereof being given to the said _Montackett_ Sachem and hee Required to attend the
John Eliot's First Indian Teacher and Interpreter Cockenoe-de-Long Island and The Story of His Career from the Early Records William Wallace Tooker 1882
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Beverly says: "as for malefactors condemned to transportation, though the greedy planter will always buy them, yet, it is to be feared they will be very injurious to the country, which has always suffered many murthers and robberies."
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856
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The soldier receives his pay, and murthers, and sleeps sound, and men applaud.
Eugene Aram — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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