A murderer condemned to slavery became the property of one of the chief men, if there was no kinsman of his victim to whom he could become servant.
These are the zopilotes, as the Mexicans call the American turkey-buzzards,--to kill one of which costs the murderer at least five dollars.
He probably thought that it would make too serious an inroad upon the population of the Republic if every murderer was shot.
At the end of a month the murderer of Zechariah was assassinated by Menahem, who, according to Josephus, commanded the army.
The suspicion which here enters the mind of Donna Anna prepares the way for the conviction which forces itself upon her that Don Giovanni is the murderer of her father.
Slowly the hours drew along towards morning, when the pursuit of the murdererwould be taken up in earnest.
The murderer gave no signal which told of his whereabouts, and though Hank stole on farther, still there was nothing to indicate where Hurley had got to.
A chap as can put up a fight with a murderer double his size can face the troubles that come to all colonists.
Joe peered through the leaves and branches, and presently caught a glimpse of the weapon which it was known the murderer carried.
But following a murderer during the daytime through such a place, and at a sedate pace, was entirely different from the same attempt at night, and all the while at such speed that precautions could not be taken.
If the sleigh were taken there without its human load, and the feat could be accomplished without Hurley seeing, then all could mount and start away before the murderer had become aware of their intentions.
Joe had, in fact, an artful and cunning foe to deal with, and quickly found that he was very far from effecting his purpose, also that the murderer was by no means likely to give in without a struggle.
So Joe ain't fought a murderer only; that's why I agreed as he was a good plucked 'un.
It seemed, indeed, as if they followed the trail of the murderer by intuition alone.
The knowledge that the murderer was actually before him sent a rush of blood to Joe's head.
There is a Japanese murdererhere in Folsom--or was, for he was executed last week.
And you know how the priests' quick whisperings led the mob to cry out for the release of the murderer Bar-Abba.
The reports in one leading case, that of the priest-murderer Riembauer, filled forty-two folio volumes.
No doubt it was the property of the murderer and, in the excitement of carrying on the dismembering process, it must have slipped off his finger unknown to him.
The murderer was almost certainly one of those drinking in the shop, and the last to leave.
The chaplain’s assistant-librarian at Celle was an ex-murderer who had killed an intimate friend, a bookseller, whom he robbed.
The murderer had evidently acted with much circumspection.
With the best of intentions, and hoping to save a life, he had connived at turning a murderer loose upon the community.
To leave a murderer at large now would be to endanger innocent lives, and imperil Ben Dudley's future.
If Bark dies, the murderer shall hang as high as Haman, if it costs me a million dollars, or, if Bark gets well, he shall have the limit of the law.
The murderer can be identified by a dozen men of my command, although several others of your force discharged their pistols shots into my column while we marched out Penn avenue.
The murderer can be identified by a dozen men of my command, although several others of your force discharged their pistol shots into my column while we marched up Penn avenue.
She told me the hail story as weel as she could for sobs and greeting; for the thought aye rugged at her heart that the man she had liked sae weel, and had toiled for night and day, should hae turned out to be the murderer o' his ain wife.
Who could know the murderer or the forger better than the murderer or the forger himself?
Wedderburn; "dare ye, foreign minion, speak of the authority of the murderer of the Earl of Home, while within the reach of the sword of his kinsman?
He, the one I loved better than my own self, infinitely better, was made a murderer by it.
Another aged Taliari had a silver bangle bearing a Telugu inscription, which had been given to him in acknowledgment of his capturing a murderer who was wanted by the police, and came to his hut.
Fearful and crafty the smile that darkened the face of the willing murderer who was leading the horse with the false light as he heard the crash of the vessel and the shrieks of the drowning crew!
All this opens up wide fields for speculation, but there is one point which a statement solemnly made by the murderer of Mr. Jackson has placed beyond the uncertainties of speculation.
The trial of the actual murderer and of those who aided and abetted him abundantly demonstrated the cold-blooded premeditation which characterized this crime.
Numerous consultations had taken place ever since the previous September between the murderer and his accomplices as to the manner and time of the deed.
Even amongst many who did not actually sympathize with the murderer there seems to have been a lurking sense of pride that it was a Bengalee who had had the courage to lay down his life in the striking of such a blow.
For I may rather bear to look on thee-- The murderer of one child--than weep for both!
This paternal reception from murderer to murderer exhilarated the widow's son, these praises bestowed on the hereditary perversity of his family intoxicated him.
He never made a movement, and for miles we roared along that silent road, through the mists and the darkness to the unknown goal--a murderer and his victim, as I surely believed myself to be.
A sudden lurch, as I let go the wheel, sent the car bounding on to the grass at the road-side, threw the murderer off his balance and hurled him backwards.
Judge of my position, knowing, as I did, that a murderer sat in the tonneau behind, and that he held a revolver at full cock in his hand.
The murderer looked hastily round, listened intently for a moment or two, then stooped to withdraw his knife, and strode off in my direction.
It seemed to me that minutes elapsed while I was fumbling about with that beastly puzzle-key, and all the while I kept nervously glancing back over my shoulder, fearing that the murderer would return.
And I," returned the quondam murderer for the newspapers, with a nasal twang, "should be very glad to see myself anywhere else.
Mr. Pease was undoubtedly England's most fashionablemurderer of the past century and his name is imperishably enshrined in the British affections.
Considered as a murderer solely this particular murderer may have been deserving of his fame; but when it came to boiling, that was another matter.
They do not exactly hang their murderer before they catch him, but the two events occur in such close succession that one can readily understand why a confusion should have arisen in the public mind on these points.
The devil can scarce save Dirk Hatteraick from being hanged for a murderer and kidnapper if the younker of Ellangowan should settle in this country, and if the gallant Captain chances to be caught here reestablishing his fair trade!
My dear Estermen," he exclaimed, "what prison do you suppose remains open for the murderer of seven men!
The avenger of blood shall himself put the murdererto death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.
If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderershall surely be put to death.
Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.
Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
The murderer swung lifeless against the wall; and the boy, thrusting aside the dangling body which obscured his view, called to the people to come and take him out, for God's sake.
The murderer staggering backward to the wall, and shutting out the sight with his hand, seized a heavy club and struck her down.
The District Inspector, coming silently along the road in his sledge, suddenly saw before him the boy lying dead by the roadside, and the murderer standing over him with the knife in his hand.
The murderer fell straight into the hands of the police.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "murderer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
