A wretch, named Rotondo, made his way into the palace with the intention of assassinating the Queen.
But while we personally by no means advocate assassination, we confess we are unable to understand the reasoning that makes the thought of assassinating Cromwell so much more horrible than that of assassinating any other tyrant.
He had been condemned to hard labour of the second class for assassinating his wife.
He was a malefactor of a rare kind, capable of assassinatingin cold blood old men and children.
Alarmed at this prospect, Darius was persuaded by a discontented courtier, named Teribazus, to lay a plot forassassinating Artaxerxes; but the plot was betrayed, and the king caused both Darius and Teribazus to be put to death.
He only awaited Andrea’s death to put off the slight mask which he had hitherto worn; and in expectation of that event he had entrusted to Captain Lercaro the business of assassinating the count.
In August, 1547, four men of Valditaro, to whom Galeotto of Mirandola added eight of his bandits, were sent to Genoa for the purpose of assassinating Doria while he should be coming out of his palace.
Count Konigsmark met the lady, fell in love with her person, or with her fortune, and could see no better road to both than by assassinating her husband.
The lower band of assassins matured and prepared their plan for assassinating the king and duke as they returned from Newmarket.
Among these brisk boys were a fanatic party, who agitated projects of assassinating the King and the Duke of York, unknown to the more generous nobles, who proposed only to secure the king's person.
There are three suppositions by which the letter to Babington may be accounted for, without allowing Mary's concurrence in the conspiracy for assassinating Elizabeth.
She knew that schemes for assassinating heretics were very familiar in that age, and generally approved of by the court of Rome and the zealous Catholics.
The only part of the charge which Mary positively denied, was her concurrence in the design of assassinating Elizabeth.
There was a story of his having cut the fingers of his right hand to the bone with a razor, to prevent his assassinating me.
When the legions decided the fate of the world, alternately elevating and assassinating their masters, what could or what ought the Christian to do?
Apart from trying to achieve a place in history, can you think of any other motive or anything that your husband felt he would achieve by the act of assassinating the President?
At this moment, Lee Harvey Oswald isn't guilty of committing the crime of assassinating President Kennedy.
In 299 the Chia family got rid of the heir to the throne, to whom they objected, assassinating this prince and another one.
He had subsequently been concerned in the Whig plot; but there is no reason to believe that he was a party to the design of assassinating the royal brothers.
He was the original author of the plot for assassinating the royal brothers.
Three or four schemes had been formed for assassinating the King.
It establishes, I submit, that consideration was being given to assassinatingthe German Ambassador at Prague to create the requisite incident.
Consideration was given to assassinating the German Ambassador at Prague to create the requisite incident.
They even gave consideration to assassinating their own Ambassador at Prague in order to create a sufficiently dramatic incident.
So we compel our guardians of the peace to go around assassinating dogs.
He owned the design of assassinating the king; declared that the office of the inquisition was well stored with arms, and that they only waited for an answer from the count-duke to put their plan into execution.
Brown was not sure who it was that prompted him to incite the slaves to strike for their liberty, by assassinating their masters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assassinating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
