It ran through three stages, the silent contemptuous rejection, the active aggressive rejection, then the hardened, murderous rejection running up to the terrible climax of the cross.
He who so easily held off the murderous mob with their stones, now holds Himself to that cross,--for us.
Yessum," assented that murderous gangster like an abashed schoolboy.
I shall mention briefly one more case, in which, however, there was no murderous intent, before I pass on to other crimes.
Pushing the shop-door open, he saw Marley finishing his murderous assault.
The friends of Mr. Briggs were communicated with, and it was ascertained that when he left home the morning of the murderous attack, he wore gold-rimmed eye-glasses and a gold watch and chain.
A murderous assault on a police constable, which so nearly ended fatally that the culprit was sentenced to death, although not executed, was perpetrated in 1852.
But Burke and Hare had their imitators further south, and of these Bishop and Williams, who were guilty of many peculiar atrocities, ended their murderous careers in front of the debtors' door at Newgate.
The cry of distress brings the friends nearer, only to fall victims in their turn to the same murderous gun.
The murderous gentlemen who were quite certainly on our track were a power to be reckoned with, and at the same time we had to keep our eyes open for the law itself.
It's my frank opinion that your clever murderous friend had some way of finding it again, or he wouldn't have been in such haste to make away with you.
The determined legionaries, aided by McMahon's men, poured in a murderous fire, and they fell back.
But a murderous fire now assails them on the front from behind some fallen logs and trees.
Traveling day and night, the murderous riders were lost in the great prairies and wildernesses of the north, and the Prophet was a sure protector.
The guards are down, the army in confusion, and under the pall of smoke which now settles down to within three feet of the ground, the murderous red men approach the lines.
Parsons, commissioners, and the murderous and horse-stealing Shawnees, and but for the cool daring and intrepidity of Clark, there probably would have been a massacre.
Hemmed in on all sides, exposed to a murderous crossfire, their escape will be impossible.
But you won’t take your life in your hands by going among those murderous men, sir?
Our wonderment is all the greater when we remember how the Kaiser and his murderous hordes have made no secret of their methods.
This battle, which was fought on the Saturday, between La Broyes and Crécy, was very murderous and cruel, and many gallant deeds of arms were performed that were never known.
Withdrawing into the shadows, he awaited the return of Skelt from his murderous errand.
And, even as she looked, Dora Fletcher saw the gleam of a knife in the man's hand; saw it raised for the murderous blow.
On learning of thismurderous act Jason determined on revenge.
Reaching Palmyra with great celerity, his wrath fell with murderous fury on that devoted city.
He was a big, dark, murderous looking creature, not unattractive in a sinister, strange, and piratical way.
He had been actuated also by an impatience again to behold this Joseph Ashburn--the man who had dealt him that murderous sword-thrust eighteen years ago.
At that there came a pause, and somewhere in the street a knot of them expostulated with Colonel Pride, and begged to be allowed to pick off that murderous malignant with their pistols.
It was a foul, murderous stroke you dealt him in the back, thinking to butcher him as you butchered his wife and his babe.
He leapt nimbly aside, and the murderous lunge shot past him; as he did so he dropped his left-hand sword and caught at the halberd.
A frenzied moollah dealt the first murderous blow; and in a minute the work was complete.
The General had sent out new supplies of ammunition, with another limber and horses for the gun; and it was soon again in full operation, playing with murderous effect upon the masses of the enemy.
Two guns of Abbott’s battery were unlimbered, and withmurderous execution poured in their thick showers of grape upon the discomfited mass.
Yes, and Mr. Newlington, and all the other knaves that are engaged in this murderous business.
Had he been forewarned that Wilding was to be one of Monmouth's party at Mr. Newlington's, his pulses would have throbbed with joy, and he would have flung himself into his murderous task with twice the zest he had carried to it.
What sort of a man would you make Arthur out to be, when you accuse him of robbing the wine-vault on top of a murderous assault on his sister?
It was this: If it falls to my lot to be indicted for this murderous offence, I will continue to keep my own counsel, as I have already done, in face of lesser provocation and at less dangerous risk.
By grappling with him, in such a situation, I should bring the affair to a final issue, though it might not be a murderous one.
With this murderous purpose I concealed myself once more behind the curtain.
You have some proposition to make, from which you guess I will revolt, or you would not preface it with such murderous looks.
Hitherto the queen had not dared to breathe to the king a word of her murderous designs, fearing an explosion of indignation on his part; and Charles's first bursts of passion were always terrible.
He was a physician, that is to say; and at his dispensary, in the intervals between his murderous operations, he dealt out medicines to poor people who flocked to him for advice.
Magic was employed not only for self-preservation, but with the mostmurderous intentions.
In this country there are many cruel and murderous people, so that no day passes but there is some homicide among them.
The slayer, who had formerly made a murderous attack upon his victim, lately quarrelled with him and uttered threats, as we have stated, upon his life.
The people of Canaan cry out for a speedy trial, speedy conviction, and speedy punishment of this cold-blooded and murderous monster.
This tongue, perfectly unique in its character, stretches out in its murderous exertions to nearly three times the length of the animal's long head.
I have seen the very wax lights faint and turn pale all at once, in the very midst of those murderous assemblies, as if to warn the imprudent guests that there was only just time to open the windows.
