One Major Henshaw came over from Paris, and proposed to assassinate Cromwell as he went to Hampton Court.
He also sent over Colonel Parker, one of the parties engaged to assassinate William, to concert the necessary measures with the Catholics and Jacobites for the invasion.
He was equally ready to lie away a woman's character or to assassinate a better man than himself.
Cromwell declared that his life was not safe in his own quarters, and we are assured that Lilburne and another Agitator named Wildman had agreed to assassinate him as a renegade and traitor to liberty.
Within a week after this visit I heard that our polite entertainer was in confinement for an attempt to assassinate the minister, towards whom he had so recently professed the profoundest sentiments of regard.
My conductor was a brother of Jung Bahadoor's, who distinguished himself about a week afterwards by a base attempt to assassinate the minister.
You might even go so far as to suggest that the only way out of the muddle was to assassinate Merolchazzar and start with a clean slate.
On the morrow his counsellors begged him to defer his journey, but nineteen plots to assassinate him had already failed: he gently put aside their warnings, and repeated his favourite maxim that fear had no place in a generous heart.
The chamber in which the leaders of the League met and decided toassassinate Henry III.
In reality, he was aware that a plot to assassinate both Lorenzo dei Medici and his brother, Giuliano, was on foot, but considered that it would degrade his holy office if he spoke of it.
When he found that so many visitors only called for the purpose of attempting to assassinate him, his Excellency decided that it would be better to give up receiving them.
I am Jean Antoine Stromboli Kosnapulski, and I shall not assassinate you unless it is absolutely necessary.
Babington, an English Catholic executed in 1586 for plotting to assassinate Elizabeth under the instruction of a Jesuit named Ballard.
Sidenote: Exit Alençon] At the end of March an attempt was made to assassinate the strong man of Holland, William the Silent.
I know of your nefarious plottings and I witnessed your cowardly attempt to assassinate Mr. Warthell, a man, the latchet of whose shoes the possessor of a heart like yours is unworthy to unloose.
Sir," said she, "there is a plan on foot to assassinate Dorlan Warthell, a highly respected Negro of this city.
On the 18th of the same month great horror and indignation were excited by the report of an attempt to assassinate the Queen.
In the Cato Street conspiracy the notorious Arthur Thistlewood and his fellow-conspirators planned to assassinate the whole of the Cabinet Ministers when they were dining at Lord Harrowby's house, in Grosvenor Square.
At the time of the attempt to assassinate the King, a young girl, whom he had seen several times, and for whom he had manifested more tenderness than for most, was distracted at this horrible event.
She gave him the seals, and he retained the first place in her regard till the attempt to assassinate the King.
To assassinate Bonaparte" was a sort of game, in which the English were specially active.
Gordon, in his History of the Family of Gordon, informs us that, in the true old spirit of Scottish family feuds, the Forbes's afterwards attempted to assassinate Gordon in the streets of Paris.
It will be observed that Booth here identifies Atzerodt with the conspiracy and the evidence shows that he relied on Atzerodt at that time to perform the part he assigned to him: to assassinate Vice-President Johnson.
It would seem that a previous attempt had been made to assassinate the President, which had resulted in a failure.
This, also, is his story in his Rockville lecture, in which he admits that he was a member of the conspiracy to capture the President, but asserts that he was never a member of the conspiracy to assassinate him.
Booth and his party finding him thus guarded had been compelled to abandon the idea of thus finding an opportunity to assassinate him, and so had to prepare a new plan of operations.
There is no doubt from the evidence presented, that he was not only a party to the conspiracy, but also that Booth had arranged with him and relied on him to assassinate the Vice-President.
Booth, and the others, to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, William H.
It would seem that they had anticipated the possibility of his departure at the close of the second act, and had intended to assassinate him at the moment of his passing out of the door.
He hurried to inform O'Laughlin of the fact and to have him follow the General and assassinate him on the road or at the end of his journey, and had told Atzerodt of this arrangement.
The plot ripened into a determination to assassinate Cæsar, and the conspirators fixed on the Ides (i.
On the east side of the square is the Belasco Theater, occupying the site of the house in which an attempt was made to assassinate Secretary Seward in 1865.
In a few brief words I told her of Natalia's incognita at Brighton, and of the attempt that had been made to assassinate us both, in order to suppress any knowledge of the letters that either of us might have gained.
You warn me of a plot toassassinate the Grand Duchess Natalia.
Russia, and with her the Imperial Court, was being terrorised by these desperate attempts to assassinate the Emperor.
But, just at that time, Gregory had put down a conspiracy of the nobles to assassinate him, by calling the people to his aid, and he was temporarily popular with the latter.
The Emperor discovered that a plot had been formed to assassinate him on his way to Germany.
Whitbread then demanded, whether he would undertake to poison, or assassinate the author; which deponent undertook, having L50 reward promised him, and appointed to return to England.
A conspiracy to assassinate him was discovered at the very moment that it was intended to carry it into execution; and what is singular, the discovery came from the very person for whose special benefit the movement was intended.
Such proved to be, indeed, the manner of Richard's death, and the previous existence of the prophecy would appear to indicate a conspiracy to assassinate him.
Then Mrs. Fogg looked at the culprit as if she wished to assassinate him; but she merely ejaculated, "Monster!
Tsin ruler despatched a eunuch to try and assassinate his half-brother (the future Second Protector of China) when in Tartar exile.
The Marquess of Ts'i therefore formed a treacherous plot to assassinate both master and man, and with this end in view sent an envoy to propose a friendly conference.
Pierre de Craon, who had tried to assassinate the constable Olivier de Clisson in the streets of Paris.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assassinate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bump; cool; dispatch; eliminate; execute; finish; kill; liquidate; murder; purge; remove; rid; shoot; slay
