If a father place in the hands of his son, as a gift, a weapon keen and bright, shall that son, with parricidal hand turn the blade against his father?
Our thoughts next revert to the death of the late President by an act of parricidal treason.
You are familiar with the succession of parricidalblows that ensued.
If only its faith is strong enough the incestuous or parricidalheart knows, feels itself absolved!
How shall Aegisthus, even Aegisthus, dare To rest beside the parricidal wife Upon her murder-stained marriage-bed, Nor tremble for himself?
The people rage, and cry Out on thee for a parricidal wife.
In the magic alembic of time the constantly increasing shadow of their presence would take sudden dreadful form, but in parricidal crime alone.
Apart from this parricidal act, the motive for which he gives with such calm brutality, Ajata-sutru seems to have been a strong, capable king.
For he but wished to hit the prize; not graze The head that bore it: so with steady eye Off flew the parricidal arrow.
Say, shall I send into Octavio's camp 50 The parricidal ball?
Oh what a most blessed day was that, which, while the carcases of those parricidal traitors were strewed about everywhere, beheld Antonius flying with a few followers, before he reached his place of concealment.
Those impious men whom you slew, shall even in the shades below pay the penalty of their parricidal treason.
I have read you this letter, O conscript fathers, not because I thought it worth reading, but in order to let you see all hisparricidal treasons revealed by his own confessions.
Can you think that men whom we could hardly bear when they were not yet polluted with such parricidal treasons; will be able to be borne by the city now that they are immersed in every sort of wickedness?
For what else was there which could have been ratified by treaty and mutual pledges between Antonius and Dolabella, those foul and parricidal traitors?
This parricidal work has been reserved for an oligarchy of banks!
Illustration: This parricidal combat continued ] With clasped hands, Pog, with ferocious eagerness, enjoyed the frightful spectacle.
And now these parricidal hosts stand arrayed openly against that paternal Government to which they owed loyalty, protection, and affection Never in history did rebellion assume such a front.
Turks, and to wash out in the waves of the Danube the remorse which he still felt at his unwitting complicity in a parricidal plot.
And my mother agreed that this idea of a negro insurrection was the most abominable and parricidal notion which had ever sprung up in her unhappy country.
Could even the pious people who flocked to the cathedral know there was amongst them a Charles whose hands were stained with parricidal guilt?
The parricidal act was complete, and it explains itself.
How many others were weakened in loyalty by this parricidal act who can tell?
All that the son did afterward, all that the son sought to do, became the act of the father who sent him forth on his parricidal errand.
Has any power prospered that had a hand in setting the ball rolling, or, for that matter, any power that had the responsibility of staying the parricidal hand, and held back?
When he discovers the parricidal crime he exclaims--'This accursed hand has murdered my parents and fulfilled the horrible prediction which I have struggled to avoid.
It resulted necessarily from his duplicity, his parricidal projects, and his English connexions.
Ministers of the King, guilty authors of the parricidalordinance of the 6th of March, read this and blush!
Tiridates, while yet a child, was taken to Greek territory and educated there in order to escape from his cruel and parricidal uncles.
Von Gutschmid interprets parricidal in the sense of the uncles having murdered, or helped to murder, not their own father but the father of Tiridates.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parricidal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
