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Example sentences for "had killed"

  • This was the horse, furniture, and arms of captain Lewis, whom the lad Gwinn, so fortunately for me, had killed in the action three days before.

  • However, though quickly pursued by the enemy, he had the address to bring off an elegant horse of one of the dragoons whom he had killed.

  • The boy skinned the calf and cow that he had killed, and then he packed the meat on the horse and put the spotted robe on top of the load, and started back to camp on foot, leading the dun horse.

  • In the afternoon they saw their husband coming home, loaded down with meat he had killed.

  • She made a fine new lodge, and the boy painted it with figures of all the birds and the animals he had killed.

  • I picked up the sage-hens which I had killed a few hours before, and followed the man who was leading the horse, while his companion brought up the rear.

  • He never returned from a successful hunt without sending some choice portion of the buffalo or other animal he had killed to the lodge of the Antelope.

  • She sat down with that light over her, motioning him to be seated opposite her--across the same table from which he had snatched the copper weight that had killed Kirkstone.

  • He bowed and held for a moment in his own the hand of the girl whose father he had killed.

  • He saw her throat twitching again, and he was filled with an infinite compassion for this daughter of the man he had killed.

  • And now that she knew the story of the old home down in the clump of timber and of the man who had lived there, she was anxious to meet Miriam Kirkstone, daughter of the man he had killed.

  • It was not, however, till after dark that the whole party was collected; and then, as it rained and we had killed nothing, we passed an uncomfortable night.

  • It proved, however, that the spy had returned to tell his comrades that one of the white hunters (Drewyer) had killed a deer.

  • This was the first elk we had killed on the west side of the Rocky Mountains, and condemned as we have been to the dried fish, it formed a most nourishing food.

  • The first was bastard son to Oileus, and brother to Ajax, but he lived in Phylace away from his own country, for he had killed a man, a kinsman of his stepmother Eriopis whom Oileus had married.

  • As a lion springs furiously upon a flock of sheep or goats when he finds without their shepherd, so did the son of Tydeus set upon the Thracian soldiers till he had killed twelve.

  • He then aimed a spear at Ajax, and missed him, but he hit Lycophron a follower of Ajax, who came from Cythera, but was living with Ajax inasmuch as he had killed a man among the Cythereans.

  • This bow was made from the horns of a wild ibex which he had killed as it was bounding from a rock; he had stalked it, and it had fallen as the arrow struck it to the heart.

  • When packing up his things in the morning, George Lechmere put aside a pistol and a dagger that he had taken from the sash of a mutineer, whom he had killed in India.

  • Every woman has the same right to defend herself that a man has, and I should have no more felt that I was to blame, if I had killed him, than you would do when you killed a man who had done you no individual harm, in battle.

  • Commodus had exhibited his dexterity as an archer by shooting a great number and great variety of small antelopes, each one of which he had killed with a single arrow.

  • By this stroke I had killed both my victims, and he one of his.

  • Then we looked at the tracks where the others had run off, and found that one went alone and left a bloody trail, but we thought best to leave it and take home the one we had killed.

  • He said the dogs had already gone out of hearing and that if I had killed one, they would have stopped.

  • When I had killed it I bent bushes and broke them partly off, every few rods, until I knew I could find the place again, then father and I would go and get the deer.

  • They did halt, but in shooting very quickly I did not get a very good sight, however, I knocked one down and thought I had killed him.

  • We made it a rule to stay and not go home until we had killed a load, which was not less than six.

  • Pawnees he had killed, when suddenly a motley concourse appeared wading across the creek toward us.

  • I noticed my host Kongra-Tonga beyond the stream, just alighting by the side of a cow which he had killed.

  • The Stabber, for that was our entertainer's name, had killed an old buffalo bull on his way.

  • But as my paying for the horse was known all over the town, Monsignor Cornaro was confirmed in his belief that I had killed my captain in a duel.

  • As far as the pistol-shot was concerned I had no fear, for I had purposely missed the insolent postillion; and even if I had killed him on the spot it would not have been of much importance.

  • I went to bed somewhat perturbed, but I had the consoling thought that if I had killed a man I had done so to self-defence; my conscience was quite clear.

  • The second time I rode with him he said to me that I had killed calves, and now I must try to kill big buffalo.

  • My uncle left the meat that he had killed at my mother's lodge.

  • I threw it down just now, when I took the poison from it, thinking that I had killed you.

  • Two hours have elapsed since he committed a double murder, and believed that he had killed Adrienne in a fit of jealous fury.

  • I thought I had killed you, and I came here to die.

  • They also found the two Indians that the man had said that he had killed, and, besides, many others that he had killed when he was running away.

  • After he had killed them, he scalped them and took their arrows, their horses, and the stone knives that they had.

  • He told of the enemies he had killed, and all the people shouted his name and praised him.

  • Big Adam rose up, looking very foolish; he had just before been telling his companions how many elephants he had killed, and had been expressing his hopes that they soon should have an elephant-hunt.

  • At last the female received a severe wound, and staggered into the bush, where she fell; and the male was soon after laid prostrate by the side of the poor soldier whom he had killed.

  • I have killed a giraffe," said the Major, standing by the side of the one he had killed.

  • We had killed two, when a bull buffalo charged from the reeds upon Swanevelt, and before he could turn his horse and put him to his speed, the horns of the buffalo had ripped up the poor animal, and he fell with Swanevelt under him.

  • He could hardly believe that he had killed Gary.

  • Despite their increasing friendliness, Pete could never get Montoya to admit that he had killed a man--and Pete thought this strange, at that time.


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