Would it have been moral parricide for a son of the great divine to have repudiated the doctrine which degraded his blameless infancy to the condition and below the condition of the reptile?
The Lutaos dispersed through the place, and, breaking into a house, found the mother of the traitor and parricide Sumoroy; and they dragged her out and tore her to pieces.
It is said that there was no further cause for the atrocious and profane act of the wicked parricide than the desire to free himself from the censures that that same father had administered to him for his crimes and wickedness.
After that parricide the new reduction rose in rebellion.
Their numbers, from the best intelligence I have had, are about fifteen hundred infantry, and as to their cavalry, accounts vary from fifty to one hundred and twenty; and the whole commanded by the parricide Arnold.
Franklin be, in such degree, an accomplice in the parricide of the memory of his immortal grandfather?
The difference in the amount shows that Sainte-Croix had a tariff, and that parricide was more expensive than simple assassination.
The miserable parricide fled, and the hut fell in ruins.
Happily the intervention of Murphy turned away the blow, and saved me from being as much a parricide in deed as I was in intention.
The Parricide was not allowed to escape by going into exile at Athens (Telfy), nor, apparently, in the Laws.
What more honourable, what more faithful to Rome, or more worthy of her relationship, than to preserve their city for the better part of the Romans, and to shut their gates against a parricide of his country?
He went to consult the oracle of Apollo at Delphi, and was told--not of his origin but of his destiny--that he should be guilty of parricide and incest.
That of the Cenci, in which a notorious act of parricide furnished the plot of a popular novella, is well known.
Edward felt as if he was about to see a parricide committed in his presence; for the venerable grey hair and striking countenance of the veteran recalled the almost paternal respect with which his officers universally regarded him.
But it were, if possible, worse than parricide to suffer any danger to hang over my noble and generous uncle, who has ever been more to me than a father, if such evil can be averted by any sacrifice on my part!
Rafaela was sitting in front of the stove, in the kitchen, her hands humbly crossed on her lap, her eyes full of tears, her white hair rumpled up, as if some parricide hand had furiously seized her head.
Now with his vengeance complete, the parricide took to flight.
Nothing, I am clear, but the cowardly fear of discovery prevents John Dillaway from becoming a positive parricide by very arsenic or razor, so as to grasp his cheated father's will and wealth.
The indignity with which he is said to have scouted this parricide proposition, was equally worthy of his virtue and wisdom.
Massachusetts indeed still lags; because most deeply involved in the parricide crimes and treasons of the war.
They certainly breathe the purest effusions of an exalted patriot, while the parricide Caesar is lost in odious contrast.
And then there was Hermon the Epicurean; directly he came in, there were queer looks and edgings away in the Stoic contingent; he might have been a parricideor an outlaw, by the way they treated him.
Any one who committed such an ordinary crime as murder, rape or parricidehad only to pay and go free.
In addition to the cases mentioned above, there was that of the parricide Count Attilio Baschi, who had killed his father forty years before and was now brought to trial, found guilty and executed.
Sir, know you then, that 'tis a thing less easie To excuse a parricide than to commit it.
For should we still perform our rights to him We should partake his wrongs, and as foul be In blood and damned parricide as he.
Another case of parricide was that of Bayungubung of Kurug.
The son in each case was responsible at the time of the parricide for the welfare of future generations of the family.
With a despairing yell the traitor and parricide goes into eternity.
In the council, the leaders loudly exclaimed that an implacable war must be made against Mourzoufle, and that the nation that had crowned treachery and parricide should be punished.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parricide" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
