An examination of European and American statistics shows that the number of homicides decreases as we pass from hot to cooler climates.
It has been calculated that during these last years of Bourbonism the brigands committed seven thousand homicides a year in the kingdom of Naples.
But the fact," said Mr. Oseba, "that in one year there were twelve homicides is most surprising to the inquiring stranger.
This marked line of distinction, between the homicides of crime and the homicides of misfortune, illustrates another point in the structure of Greek society.
Most homicides were the result of an impassioned argument leading to blows inflicted by nearby commonplace items picked up and used as weapons.
Thus ended be these homicides two, And eke the false empoisoner also.
The greatest number of these homicides take place in the Southern and Western states, Texas leading, according to the statistics, with about one thousand homicides annually.
Number of murders and homicidesper million of the total population.
In the United States the number of murders and homicides per million of the entire population has nearly trebled in the last fifteen years (Fig.
Such homicides did not escape judicial sentence, but they shared in the conventional toleration which was extended to murders in hot blood or in the prosecution of a feud.
Condemned for the most part in their absence, these homicides entered a recognized and not dishonorable class.
Among the Roro-speaking tribes of British New Guinea homicideswere secluded in the warriors' clubhouse.
Finally, those warriors who had never killed a man before assumed a beautiful ornament made of fretted turtle shell, which none but homicides were allowed to flaunt in their head-dresses.
Homicides of all kinds in the following European States:-- Tried.
But with the exception of infanticide (and it is necessary to except it for the reasons I have just alleged) India has not half as many homicides annually as England.
These crimes and many others like them materially augment the number of homicides reported to the police, but they never figure among the cases annually brought for trial before assizes.
We know, in general, that they have committed manyhomicides and much injury.
Do you suppose that any people ever elevated its ideal of courage in the eyes of the world by all the homicides and all the duels that it could count?
Certainly the rite was unknown to Homer, who mentions many homicidesbut says nothing of purification or of pollution.
From other Cyclic poems he selects other instances of these non-Homeric types, and also un-Homeric apparitions of men who have been duly burned and buried; and cases of the purification of homicides by blood of pigs, wholly unknown to Homer.
He talked a strange Italian jargon, narrated the homicides of his flock with complacency, and let it be understood that a gun was better suited to his handling than the vessels of the sanctuary.
In this city women are guarded with a watchful jealousy of which Italians have no notion; while homicides occur with facility and frequency.
Ninety-five homicides for every million of the population contrast in Italy with six for every million in England.
With a view to ascertaining conditions in general throughout the United States, I asked a clipping agency to send me the first one hundred notices of actual homicides which should come under its scissors.
Besides these murders, five homicides had been committed in the course of perpetrating other crimes, including burglary and robbery.
The undeniable influence of social conditions, and still more of economic conditions, in leading up to the commission of theft, is far inferior in the genesis of homicides and indecent assaults.
Certain casual homicides are plainly the result of social conditions (gambling, drink, public opinion, &c.
The principal factors in the annual increase of theft, such as scarcity and extremes of weather, cause a corresponding diminution of violent assaults and bodily harm, of homicides and indecent assaults, and vice versa.
Homicides may be divided into voluntary and involuntary: and first of involuntary homicide.
Let wounds be divided as homicides were divided--into those which are involuntary, and which are given in passion or from fear, and those inflicted voluntarily and with premeditation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "homicides" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
