Meanwhile Winter, writing from Brett's dictation, drew up a complete statement of all the facts retailed by the Japanese in relation to the murders of Sir Alan Hume-Frazer and the unfortunate Italian.
You have been reading 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
Ennidge and Pring, house agents, was arrested in his lodgings for the murders of Mrs. Vanderstein and Madame Querterot, and for the attempted murder of Miss Turner.
These murders are certainly the work of the same gang, and it may be easier to trace them here in London, if it is, as it appears to be, their starting point, than it will be to do so in a foreign country.
What connection could there be between these local, cold-blooded murders and the rest of the world?
There are more murders in this republic than in any civilized land beneath the sky.
No wonder we have more murders in this republic than in any civilized land beneath the sky in proportion to population.
Your "First Citizen," who swings a stave for Marc Antony, and drinks hard porter behind the flies is very like the bravo of real life, who murders between his cocktails at the nearest bar.
Instantly a wild apprehension of an organized conspiracy and of other murders took possession of the people.
Three undetected murdersin one year won't do, Lestrade.
He destroys you by your own excess of paternal sympathy; murders you by means of the very love you bear him--has coiled round a father's heart to crush it.
All the murders you bid me commit be upon my head!
John Davenport) "present at the trial," we come to a strange and mournful group of judicial murders that took place in Huntingdon, 1646.
They were suffered to remain unmolested for several years; but with the murders that ushered in Pontiac's war, in 1763, the former suspicion revived, and the expediency of destroying the Moravian Indians was openly debated.
To this they added a deep bitterness against the Quaker, greatly increased by a charge, most uncharitably brought by the latter against the whole Presbyterian sect, of conniving at and abetting the murders at Conestoga and Lancaster.
To this fatal Intercourse between our pretended Friends and open Enemies, we must ascribe the greatest Part of the Ravages and Murders that have been committed in the Course of this and the last Indian War.
I felt drawn in against my will, as it were--it was like those places where dreadful murders have been committed.
But even this did not stop almost daily repeated murders and acts of destruction.
With this the warfare inaugurated by the murders on the Pottawattomie ended.
For a few days it was not known who the authors of these murders were, but suspicion soon pointed to Brown and his gang, and steps were taken to procure warrants for their arrest.
For a considerable length of time the post to which I was then attached, was kept in a constant state of excitement by receiving authentic accounts, daily, of murders and robberies committed by the Indians.
Kit Carson harangued them and informed them that he knew of the murders they had committed on his people during the past year.
Murders and robberies were of daily, or, rather, nightly occurrence at Hong Kong, the offenders being Chinese, who are the most daring robbers perhaps in the world.
I was sorry to find that murders and robberies were most frequent at Hong Kong, although the police force has been augmented from London, and is under the charge of an experienced officer.
In all countries where secondary punishments are severe and capital punishments rigorously inflicted, murders are numerous, and in countries where the machinery for the detection of crime is defective it may be the same.
This foolish act by the master of the caravan was the cause of a long war, causing hundreds of atrocious murders and the destruction of a great deal of property along the whole Western frontier.
Late in the fall of 1858, I was one of a party on the trail of a band of Indians who had been committing some horriblemurders in a mining-camp in the northern portion of Washington Territory.
All the while political and religious antipathies manifested themselves in violent forms; murders perpetrated in the close vicinity of our county town.
Meanwhile the rebellion spread; depredations and murders were committed wholesale.
I believe rather that this report was spread to palliate and excuse the murders they themselves committed in cold blood after the battle of Culloden.
I am convinced that it is a malicious report industriously spread to excuse themselves for the murders they were guilty of in calm blood after the battle.
He paused, blinked, and went on, "I will only tell you this: no murders were done by our group in any of our activities.
Well, then," Malone said, "how do you know when the murders were done?
That, he reflected, was quite true, since the murders had never happened.
Is not that where all the murdersand robberies used to be committed?
It looks like a place for murdersto be committed," she said.
But now, as if in mockery of all our anxious consultations and elaborate devices, three fresh murders took place on the two consecutive nights succeeding these new arrangements.
It will be supposed that communications were made to the supreme government of the land as soon as the murders in our city were understood to be no casual occurrences, but links in a systematic series.
I have heard an authority awfully competent vow and declare that scores and hundreds of murders are committed, and nobody is the wiser.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "murders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
