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Example sentences for "kill him"

  • In an instant Dick was up again, and had leapt upon the prostrate Swiss, as all thought, to kill him.

  • I believe she would like to kill him if she could, for she is an enchantress.

  • But they held tight, and having brought him to his victim's grave, they proceeded to kill him, after which they tore open his body, scattered the inside and once more flew away.

  • Though we were many and our enemy was alone it did not occur to us to kill him, and indeed we should have found that a hard task, even if we had thought of it, and no plan could we devise to deliver ourselves.

  • At this very time, Parmenio wrote to Alexander from the camp, bidding him have a care of Philip, as one who was bribed by Darius to kill him, with great sums of money, and a promise of his daughter in marriage.

  • Then she rose to him and bussed his head and hands, saying, "Right is thy foresight, and I and thou will cast about for some means to kill him forthright.

  • King answered, "I mean to kill him, that the Wazir may be baulked of his intent and return to his allegiance, seeing nothing for it but my service.

  • And Amjad said the like and entreated the treasurer to kill him before As'ad, saying, "My brother is younger than I; so make me not taste of his anguish.

  • When the hangman raised his sword and set it at his throat to kill him, he exclaimed, "The Eternal He is God, the God of the whole world as well as of the blasphemer Nimrod.

  • To kill him, one may not go near to him, the navel-string must be severed from a distance by means of a dart, and then he dies amid groans and moans.

  • They will be equally unsuccessful when they attempt to kill him by throwing darts and slinging stones; such missiles will rebound without leaving the least impression on his body.

  • Because I could not have been in the same town with Napoleon," he answered, "without trying to kill him, and I do not feel my hand strong enough for that yet.

  • Accuser to cause him to be put to death, and to cast the first stone at him; but not to kill him before he be Condemned.

  • They went about to kill him," the people answered, "Thou hast a Devill, who goeth about to kill thee?

  • She was about to kill him, but he anticipated the blow and slew her.

  • I have not seen Steffani for six months, sir," I said to the count, "but I promise you to kill him in a duel as soon as he returns.

  • I took a pistol out of my pocket, and, aiming at Medini's breast, I threatened to kill him on the spot unless he refunded at once all the gold they had won from me.

  • Yesterday, not to-day, was the time to kill him, or to throw your plate at his head, at all events.

  • Whether from rage, indignation, or nature, I took him by the collar, I shewed him my pike, and raising my voice threatened to kill him.

  • At this I was astonished to find him at my knees kissing my hands, and entreating me not to kill him.

  • If I kill him, you must agree to take me in his place, and I'll undertake to break in that handsome girl and keep her at your beck and call.

  • He no longer guarded himself, but took his sabre in both hands and rushed furiously on his antagonist, resolved to kill him, if he had to lose his own life.

  • He has lowered me in the estimation of this town, and I cannot get back what I have lost unless I kill him.

  • If you say one more word for that plotter I'll kill him as I would a mad coyote!

  • You'll kill him--for yourself--for your vengeful hate?

  • Lassiter, if I ever meet Oldring I'll kill him!

  • Quoth I, "And how wilt thou go about to kill him?

  • Answered Mansur, "Thou sayest sooth, but how shall we do to kill him?

  • His tortured room-mate at first reviled him, then threatened to kill him, finally put him to shame.

  • Since then the lack of any strong interest to employ his mind has enabled the tedious weariness to kill him.

  • And you can depend on it, I'll learn him or kill him.

  • I didn't intend to kill him--didn't want to!

  • When they tear a workingman's hand in a machine or kill him, you can understand--the workingman himself is at fault.

  • My first impulse was to kill him on the spot.

  • I have a knife in my hand, with a strong, curved blade; and when I am near enough I kill him as he kneels there.

  • But instead of that he had grown so weak, that to excite his suspicions now by moving him or her would be to kill him.

  • And he cites the case of the minister who, having maneuvered in vain to compass the death of the king by some sort of accident, finally undertook to kill him with an andiron.

  • That's the trick of Southern Europe to go in barefoot behind a man to kill him.

  • The jewel-traders sent him to watch Rodman, and to kill him if he was ever able to get his formulae worked out.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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