In the Iliad, Apollo coming down from Mount Ida, is compared to the swift hawk, the killer of doves, the swiftest of all birds.
The strong Indras, killer of the monster, Vritras, is also represented as a lion.
It is a gooseherd who, in the twentieth Esthonian story, releases the beautiful girl from the monster husband, the killer of his wives (a form of Barbebleu).
It also assumes a sinister aspect, under the name of killer of sons (paidoletor), given it by Euripides.
The foregoing is irrefutable evidence that the fool-killer is enacting the role of cunctator.
Get his year in yer teeth an' hold on, fer 'tis a leddy-killer ye have in yer hands at last.
Tis a leddy-killer he is fer sure, 'pon me whurd, fer a fact.
From it, a killer came snaking out, its bared fangs thirsty for his life blood!
The swiftest was Reelfoot, the Placerville cattle-killer that could charge from a thicket thirty yards away and certainly catch a steer before it could turn and run, and that could even catch ponies in the open when they were poor.
The killer would simply crouch in shadows, await his chance, and take careful aim.
Because the killer had seen the girl go into the lounge and thought she was still there?
No one on the lower levels knew him by sight, with the one ugly exception of a killer he'd never seen clearly enough to recognize in return.
And in the guard's uniform he might even succeed in deceiving the killer if he moved quickly enough to give the man only a brief glimpse of him as he crossed the wide-view promenade.
He knew there was a killer loose on the Station, the same one who had been loose on the ship that had taken him to the Station.
Something had gone wrong with the plan, and the killer didn't even know when and why and how she had vanished.
He told himself it would be highly dangerous to leave the cell and give the killer another chance.
There was the little matter of a killer still at large somewhere on the Station, and the quicker they were in space the safer Ramsey's daughter would be.
He had to convince the killer that he couldn't be silenced easily and perhaps not at all.
Almost instantly the killer was closing in again, and this time there was no escape.
It was far better to have a Security Guard watching him than a killer with a poisoned barb.
The killer was coming close again, his shoes making a scraping sound in the darkness, his breathing just barely audible.
The killer returned his gun to its holster very slowly and deliberately, and then he took it out again.
The killer jabbed the gun more firmly against Corriston's spine and asked in a cold, flat voice: "Do you know who I am, Corriston?
Instantly, the killer rolled sideways, broke Corriston's grip, and was on his feet.
Most common of all is the kind of sea-wolf known as the Killer Whale, who measures 30 feet long.
We were to be hunted by these Killer whales again.
The Killer is scientifically known as the Orca, and, though far smaller than the sperm and other large whales, is a much more dangerous animal.
Cherry had Michael, a steady goer, and Wilson led Nobby--the pony rescued from the killer whales in March.
The first of these was the adventure of Ponting and the Killer whales.
The latter were horribly frightened and strained to their chains, whining; the head of one killer must certainly have been within five feet of one of the dogs.
Some six or seven killer whales, old and young, were skirting the fast floe edge ahead of the ship; they seemed excited and dived rapidly, almost touching the floe.
You mustn't swim till you're six weeks old, Or your head will be sunk by your heels; And summer gales and Killer Whales Are bad for baby seals.
From all of his Pack he may claim Full-gorge when the killer has eaten; and none may refuse him the same.
Look thy den be hid and deep, Lest a wrong, by thee forgot, Draw thy killer to the spot.
Let it all be well incorporated and you have the most excellent pain killer that was ever made.
He had tried to drive back the would-be killer from her prey.
Judge, I call on you to order that sheep-killer shot; an' to order his master to indemnify me for th' loss of my eight killed sheep!
If he'd gotten Lad killed, he'd probably have invented another sheep-killer dog to help him swipe the rest of the flock, or until Romaine decided to do the watching.
Johnson was also to be seen at all public gatherings, looking, in his scarlet waistcoat and ill-fitting coat, not as the killer of Tecumseh, but as the veritable Tecumseh himself.
The Christian god was greater than our gods, and a bigger killer of men.
Meanwhile the mysterious attacker had opened fire again, but Dave's quick action at the controls caused the unknown killer to miss by a wide margin.
Had they been burned to a crisp we would not know the killer had stolen the operation plans of the part the Carrier Indian is to play in a Navy attack on the Jap-mandated islands of the Marshall group.
Perhaps I wasn't the one that unknownkiller was interested in.
Killer went permanently off-line, with the loss of vast archives of programs and huge quantities of electronic mail; it was never restored to service.
At one time, Killer had the largest library of public-domain Macintosh software in Texas.
It joined the UUCP network, and offered network links to over eighty other computer sites, all of which became dependent on Killer for their links to the greater world of cyberspace.
He had believed that he had the Sawtooth killerunder observation, and he had been watching and waiting for evidence that would impress a grand jury.
After that I knew who was the Sawtooth killer that I came here to find.
She told me that she was certain that the killer had come into her house when no one was home.
Lisa told me that she 'knew' that thekiller was also stalking her.
Just before Lisa graduated the killer was apprehended and I did not give the matter any more thought until she brought it up over the summer.
One evening, in the presence of Mr. Loftin, she said that she was convinced that demons had been directing the killer in Santa Barbara.
He did, indeed, rend out a mass of hide and blubber, but he reached no vital point, and the raging killer hardly felt the wound.
The size of the mark in this case showed that the killer was one of the larger owls.
Speed, however, is not what the little whitekiller depends on for its prey.
It was indeed a time of distressed stomachs; and, to make matters worse, my Father, who was a killer of Bullocks and not a Goat eater, dropped the matter of a thousand feet over a cliff and was killed.
I was Lieutenant to one of his kind--a great killer he was--for a matter of two years.
First the Bail (Bullocks) died as though Bagh the Killer had taken each one by the throat; then those of my kind fell down by the fire-path and could not rise again.
He thought he would give Kitty one last chance, so when she was already cloaked, waiting with Mrs Killer for the carriage, he drew her aside.
Mrs Killer looked with all her eyes, for she wanted to know all about this pretty girl who dropped so unexpectedly into Melbourne society, so she determined to question Bellthorp when she got him alone.
A sleepy servant admitted Kitty when she came home from the ball, and had said goodbye to Mrs Killer and Bellthorp.
Bellthorp reddened slightly, and turned away as he saw the other smiling, for his relations with Mrs Killerwere well known.
He had followed Kitty and Mrs Killer down to St Kilda by hanging on to the back of the brougham, thinking the latter was his wife.
It was quite a scandal that a diplomatic representative had been challenged to a duel by a known killer of Rakoczi's reputation.
They tell me I raved one night and bellered for a rattle, and Scanlan made the nurse tell him all about Jack the Giant Killer and Old Mother Hubbard.
In the middle of the room and backin' against the doors is a big, growlin', red-eyed killer that used to be Arthur.
The killer circled his victim, and the yellow wolf turned round and round in the same spot, keeping his bared fangs toward his foe.
Breed knew it was the midnight killer who had left such sinister evidence of his handiwork scattered along the foot of the hills,--and there was no doubt of his purpose.
Indeed, thought the girl, even a creature that did not know the massive killer from which it emanated, would be sure to stay far clear of the place from which the sound had come.
You've wondered, no doubt, why the killer whales took up with them in the first place?
A young boy, perhaps twelve or thirteen, had resurfaced with his mount, a massive killer whale.
It saw me and dashed off to sea, on the back of a killer whale!
He landed with the bug-killer on top--and the bug-killer failed to remove his person as speedily as true courtesy exacted.
They seemed to be having some sort of argument; the bug-killer gesticulated with the long stick he carried, and the sheep, while the herders talked, scattered irresponsibly.
He leaned forward in the saddle and ogled the bug-killer with horrid significance.
In his enthusiasm Andy remounted and was about to lead the way to the other herder when Big Medicine returned puffing, the bug-killer squirming in his grasp.
Whereupon the bug-killer gave another howl and professed himself eager to drive the sheep--well, what he said was that he would drive them to that place which ladies dislike to hear mentioned, if the Happy Family wanted him to.
Now he rode forward until he was abreast of Weary, and he grinned down at the bug-killer in a way to distract his attention from the gun.
He had been given several minutes grace in which to meditate upon the unwisdom of defiance; and he had seen the bug-killer change abruptly from sullenness to terror, and afterward to abject obedience.
He did not know what they had said to him, or what they had done; but he knew the bug-killer was a hard man to stampede.
This, they were convinced, was the band herded by the bug-killer and the man from Wyoming; and the nerve of those two almost excited the admiration of the Happy Family.
The bug-killer and the other were there, and they noted that the features of that other bore witness to the truth of Andy's story of the fight.
