The excuse we gave was that we were suffering from confinement and needed exercise, having by the teaching of our religion no scruples about killing game.
Well, the end is near, for it is killing them, and their children are but few; weakly also, for the ancient blood grows thin and stale.
By rigid Laws, which put no difference 'Twixt fairlykilling in my own Defence, And Murders bred by drunken Arguments, Whores, or the mean Revenges of a Coward.
From the first moment that I saw your Eyes, Your charmingkilling Eyes, I did adore 'em; And ever since have languisht Day and Night.
After to-day, I shall take the liberty of sending one of the servants every day to your house in town to deny you positively to that tiresome crowd, who, after defaming you in every possible way, are killing you with their importunity.
It dawned on him at last, that when you go out with the idea ofkilling a creature, you may get its attitude toward death, but you won't learn about how it regards life.
The mahouts say Neela Deo did the thing for me; stood up and took it, till he could kill the beast without killing me.
That's a two or three hundred dollar job, and may make your owner grumble a little, but it's no killing matter.
The very day succeeding the arrival of the Sea Lion of the Vineyard, even while his mate was clearing the vessel, Daggett had a gang on the north shore, killing and skinning.
The effect on the air was always perceptible in that region, 'killing the summer,' as the sealers expressed it; but it seemed to be doubly so at the elevation to which the two adventurers had attained.
I came within a hair of killing that poor crazy fool, Red Crow.
But before it could touch the ground, where it would undoubtedly have exploded, killing and maiming many, Jack slipped one hand beneath it and caught it gently.
One shell raked the forward deck of the Tiger, and carried away a part of the turret, killing several men.
One night, we were quietly playing cards in our camp when a Taube dropped five bombs in quick succession within twenty yards of our tents, killing four horses and two men.
Directly they reached the entrance a heavy trench-mortar burst among them, killing six and wounding another.
Then I took him up and carried him to the bazar and set him up against the wall in such a place near such a lane;" adding, "Is it not enough for me to have killed a Moslem without also killing a Christian?
The excuse which the Caliph would find for him is the pundonor shown inkilling one he loved so fondly.
I thought it was the cats and dogs, and I kill the dogs and cats of the quarter and sin against them by killing them.
King Yunan only rejoined, "I shall not be safe without slaying thee; for, as thou healedst me by something held in hand, so am I not secure against thy killing me by something given me to smell or otherwise.
The loneliness of those cold, snowy days was killing to Jacqueline.
Her eyes, usually a soft, dark gray, were black with indignation; her cheeks burned; she looked capable of killing him where he stood.
Gaius had despoiled this Pompeius of his title Magnus and came very near killing him because he was so named.
So then they took charge of forces already in waiting, and after killing the different bodies of soldiers for whom they had previously asked they encountered him in the midst of forests by this time hard to traverse.
It's a bad business this of killing dumb creatures, and the older I get, the more chicken-hearted I am about it.
I have often felt angry with men for only half killing a bird.
They used to prowl about the country killing hens, geese, and sometimes sheep.
He has different pens and sheds, and the killing is done as quietly as possible; the animals are taken in one by one, and though the others suspect what is going on, they can't see it.
The hunters' rifles going crack, crack, crack, sometimeskilling or wounding dogs as well as moose.
I used to be fond of hunting when I was a boy; but I have got rather disgusted with killing these late years, and unless the wild creatures ran in our streets, I would lift no hand to them.
They intend to Byngify Keppel to all appearance; but killing him will not mend rotten ships nor make sailors.
He then fired a musket twice, killing a German boy eleven years old, by the name of Christopher Snyder, and wounding another very severely.
The Mexican General Torrejon captured a detachment of United States dragoons April 25, including Captains Thornton and Hardee and Lieutenant Kane, besides killing Lieutenant George J.
His thoughts of war had been associated with fierce fighting, the killing of many enemies, the capturing of many prisoners.
The American batteries opened fire upon Chapultepec on the 12th, causing great destruction and killing and wounding many of its defenders.
Many held that where honor is involved, no one can adjust the difficulty but those most directly concerned; but reason saw that a man's honor cannot be vindicated by killing his enemy or being killed by him.
Can the rice growers of Japan profit by killing Americans to whom they sell their produce?
First, we find protest against the killingof individuals by individuals.
And our time is so pleasant it doesn't need muchkilling out here.
I understand that he was leading his Company back from one of the communication trenches when the Germans shelled the front and rear of the column, killing your son and the officer who was at the rear.
It is a killing sight to see their Company sitting in a field and drumming up!
Never mind, I believe it will finish up without much help from us, and our job is really killing time.
The second is the well-known episode in the story of Samson, where he is recorded as breaking the cords with which his enemies had bound him, and killing a thousand Philistines with the fresh jaw-bone of an Ass.
Smaller birds are carried off in the talons of their pursuers, and are killed by the grip of their tremendous claws, the Eagle in no case making use of its beak for killing its prey.
David, their leader, had also distinguished himself, when a mere keeper of cattle, by pursuing and killing a Lion that had come to plunder his herd.
Several of these chariots would be driven simultaneously against an Elephant, and sometimes succeeded in killing the animal.
The usual method of capturing orkilling the Lion was by pitfalls or nets, to both of which there are many references in the Scriptures.
Sometimes the line of nets will extend for half a mile or more, and give employment to a large staff of hunters, in killing the entangled animals, and raising afresh those portions of the net which had fallen.
The instinct of killing its prey by a fall is employed against other animals besides snakes and tortoises, though exerted in a somewhat different manner.
It has been remarked, that when once a dog acquires wild habits, and takes to killing sheep, he does far more mischief than a wild beast, since to the cunning of the tamed animal he adds the ferocity of the untamed.
Their soldiery, it seems, could not exist without the enjoyment of seeing men engage in doubtful and mortal combats--either killing one another, or torn to pieces by wild beasts.
In one night they killed 2,650; and yet this cannot give an entirely adequate idea of their number, for the yard in question did not cover more than a twentieth part of the space allotted to killing horses.
Their mode of killing swine was as refined in barbarity as in epicurism.
Thirty of the Marshalsea guards, who were sent to apprehend him, having beset his castle, he barricaded the doors and fired on them from the garret window, killing the commanding officer and five others.
I sent a shower of grape from the gun, of which I had charge, upon the deck of the schooner, killing four of the pirates and wounding others, but this failed to stop the boarding party, who now swarmed upon us.
Some of the birds pushed the others into the water in their eagerness to witness the killing of the seals, which they appeared to be discussing with much interest.
In the heat of an engagement he went about his ship, observing his men, and immediately killing those who shrank at the report of pistol, gun, or cannon.
The head as the part preserved from the killing [dismemberment] stands probably for the organ of generation.
Psychoanalysis, like comparative mythology, makes it probable that the killing or dismemberment of the father figure is equivalent to castration.
The killingof the phallic snake amounts, of course, to the same thing.
Killing is the opposite of procreating, therefore the mill is here turned in reverse direction.
The sacrifice of a part of ourself (killing of the dragon, the father, etc.
After killing the lion the victor brings to light white bones and red blood from his body.
A little later I succeeded in killing a couple of wild ducks, which seemed to be very numerous in this vicinity.
Indeed, in Colombia the killing of a gallinazo is punishable by a heavy fine.
Finally, a commission of ten men went out on a correría and committed the most savage outrages, killing all the poor infieles, big and small, that they met on their march.
Murders and assassinations are so common here that some of the chiefs of sections and their subordinates do not pass without killing in cold blood from one to five, or even more, of the helpless Huitotos.
These, without warning, attacked the innocent Campas, seizing those whom they could, killing many of them so that few escaped their cruelties, so that even up to now the number of their victims is not known.
As our danta was now getting spoiled, I kept an eagle eye on the trees along the bank in hopes of killing something, and shot at several monkeys, but with apparently no effect.
The next day was Christmas, and Perkins was better, so we celebrated the occasion by killing the turtle Don Rogerio had given us.
Have not you eyes to see that you are killing her?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "killing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
