From this scene of murder theassassins rushed to the quarters of Wallenstein.
And so when his father fled through the Buchonian forest, the assassins of Cloderic set upon him and slew him.
And when Sigibert set out from Cologne and crossed the Rhine to go through the Buchonian forest,[57] his son had him slain by assassins while he was sleeping in his tent, in order that he might gain the kingdom for himself.
Blood-stained assassins scoured the country during the night, the sword in one hand and the torch in the other, marking their progress by murder and conflagration.
He resisted the assassinsat first, but was soon overpowered and strangled.
In the first week of May heavy details were furnished to guard the prison on the grounds of the arsenal where the assassins were confined.
Reciprocally questioning the reputation of all their female relatives to the third and fourth cousins, they defied each other as the offspring of assassins and prostitutes.
So he would not go to Rome, and Rome sent assassins to take his life.
The assassins are put upon their trial at Thebes—their defence.
Thessalian youths, Krateuas and Hellanokrates, together with a Macedonian named Dekamnichus, being his assassins during a hunting-party.
It was also proved that assassins were in the employ of Ferdinand and his queen.
But Joseph sent a personal friend, and two of the assassins were arrested.
Not a man of all the baffled assassins answered to that challenge.
For a moment the good-humor faded from the face of Lagardere, and he spoke grimly enough: "There were nine assassins in the moat at Caylus.
The charge of the assassins was abruptly arrested by Lagardere's bulwark, and over that bulwark the swords of the two defenders flashed and leaped, and before every thrust a man went down.
His account against the assassins of Caylus was being slowly paid; but never had any item of that account been annulled with less regret.
Then the baffled assassins recoiled, leaving two of the smugglers for dead, while Saldagno and Faenza were both badly wounded, and cursing hideously in Portuguese and Italian.
The practised assassins walked catfoot, but there were others that shuffled in their care to go warily.
The proofs of your guilt are in that sealed packet, stolen from me byassassins in your pay.
In fact the two brothers‐in‐law, Mahmoud Djelaleddin and Nouri Pashas, were arrested in Constantinople, and the news of a fresh trial of the assassins of Abdul Aziz was noised abroad by the European Press.
The crime was committed with the assistance of the Chamberlain, Fahri Bey, while Ali and Nedjib Beys, who had introduced the assassins into the Palace, mounted guard with drawn swords at the door of the room.
Behind this wood-heap theassassins found a convenient hiding place.
It is remarkable that Hackston, as well as a shepherd who was also present, but passive, on the occasion, were the only two of the party of assassins who suffered death by the hands of the executioner.
All the bonds of social order were dissolved; no property was secure; the assassins alone prospered, and the procurators went shares with them in the profits.
On two separate occasions it occurred that a king of Judah was murdered by subjects, but in both cases the "people of the land" rose up against the assassins and once more placed a member of the Davidic family upon the throne.
I have repudiated that set of pirates and assassins of whom I was, alas!
A hundred or more assassins were hired to butcher the prisoners.
After his assassins had done their work, they tossed the body out of the window of the chamber in which it lay, into the street, in order that the Duke of Guise, who stood below, might satisfy himself that his enemy was really dead.
He ordered the assassins to be executed, and directed that fitting obsequies should be performed over the body.
His rage at the assassins of La Salle--among whom he had himself placed a man whom he thought fit to be trusted--and his sorrow broke bounds in such sobs as men utter.
We have had one of theassassins hiding here in our storehouse!
In fact they were not at the station; there was no sudden assault on the cars, nor other indication of assassins and a mob.
Those who sustain the plot-theory say that the news had spread through the city, so that all the assassins and the gangs of the "Plug Uglies" knew that their game was up.
Serbia denied all connexion with the assassins (the policy of Serbia being then controlled by the Russian Foreign Office), and then the Russian Government stepped forward to prevent the humiliation of Serbia by Austria.
The countenances of the assassins were disconcerted, and they were now, for the first time, abandoned by their atrocious audacity.
Note: Von Hammer's History of the Assassins has now thrown Falconet's Dissertation into the shade.
Footnote 24: All that can be known of the Assassins of Persia and Syria is poured from the copious, and even profuse, erudition of M.
The assassins were taken and executed, and a reward of one thousand pounds offered for the apprehension of their employer.
The trial of the assassins commenced on the following day, and the evidence being so clear, they were both found guilty and condemned to be broken alive on the wheel.
The reason is--"No, for it is not desirable in an action for damages that there should be any prejudged decision of a crime, such as is the subject of inquiry whenassassins are on their trial.
The assassins stabbed him through and through, for they had pledged themselves, one and all, to bathe their daggers in his blood.
The assassins communicated with Lucrezia, who administered an opiate to her husband, and then stole from him some keys which enabled her after midnight to liberate Bernardo and Beatrice.
The partition running in this manner will give to the audience a view of the door and iron fastenings through which the arm of the heroine passes, and also the passage where the assassins stand.
The assassins extinguished their own fires, but did not lie down to sleep: Robinson kept his burning brightly, that he might watch their movement.
Though individuals, undoubtedly, displayed the vices imputed, who will condemn the natural disposition of a people for actions committed at lone intervals, by solitary assassins and marauders?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assassins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
