It was no ordinary thing to take the life of a human being, much less to perpetrate the deed in cold blood.
From the tone of the man's voice, Keene judged that he meant to perpetrate a murder.
Thus one nation cannot disarm while the others are strongly armed, and among them are those whose autocratic rulers and imperialistic castes are watching for signs of weakness in order to perpetrate international claim-jumping.
In whatsoe'er weperpetrate We do but row; we're steered by fate.
To plot is one thing--to perpetrate another; and a deed of blood propounded and agreed to on their first meeting, was now in course of execution.
Did I ask an impertinent question, or perpetrate a kiss, he was sure to be close at my elbow.
Well, Isidora, the pardon may be granted: for it is, possibly, the last offending he shall perpetrate or you forgive.
Let it rest there, father; for this is right, and if you do otherwise, you will perpetrate a great wrong, both as a priest and a man!
Indeed, partaking the human nature of those who could perpetrate such deeds, she felt her own spotlessness impugnent.
He was afraid to have his brothers marry lest it might be a nephew who was to perpetrate the deed.
There were three parties, Ferdinand, Stephen and Solyman, all alike ready to be guilty of any inhumanity or to perpetrate any perfidy in the accomplishment of their plans.
The Jews had no earthly protector, were weak and helpless, therefore, Manoel, whom historians call the Great, permitted himself to perpetrate such atrocities.
Society manifests a most inordinate and pernicious curiosity in respect to criminals who perpetrate an unusual offence.
True—I did not perpetrate the forgery with my own hands;—but the bills are all drawn—all endorsed by me!
Were you to perpetrate such a horrible deed, I would die that moment—I would stab myself to the heart—or I would leap from this window on the stones beneath!
We have been absolved Beforehand; I may perpetrate the worst; I can, I will do so!
With shame and horror I here lay down the bloody staff, under which you thought yourselves licensed to perpetrate your crimes and to defile the fair light of heaven with deeds of darkness.
Choose betwixt Fool and knave for his name, who should intend To perpetrate a baseness so unmixed With prospect of advantage!
Which wickedness they perpetrate Because they think no Christians see.
In the assassination of Caligula, the conspirators who combined to perpetrate the deed, had a much deeper design than that of merely gratifying their personal resentment and rage against an individual tyrant.
He soon found, however, that monster as he was, his conscience was not yet so stupefied, that he could perpetrate such a deed as this without bringing out her scourge.
There were others who were ready enough toperpetrate the foul deed.
Of this fanatical horde there was not a man but would be ready to perpetrate the most wanton cruelty, and to whom butchery was but second nature.
I dare you to fire, if you can bring yourself to perpetrate so rank an act of cowardice!
Secondly, that you undertake to perpetrate no act of piracy while I am on board.
But having weighed the testimony of God by the standard of their own knowledge, gleaned from the teachings of the leaders of their faith, and found it at variance with their limited understanding, they arose to perpetrate such unseemly acts.
Ye perpetrate every day a fresh injustice, and treat Me as ye treated Me in times past, though I never attempted to meddle with your affairs.
And who could have had a motive, and who not, to perpetrate such a bloody deed?
No—no; bad as I may be—as I know myself to be, in fine—I could not perpetrate such a deed as that.
Besides, he had no motive to perpetrate such a deed: on the contrary, he deprived himself of a friend whose purse was most useful to him.
I need scarcely tell you that never again will the highways of this nor any other country be rendered dangerous by me—never shall this right hand of mine perpetrate a crime.
He had been one of the very first to abandon that monarch when trusted by him, but he had written letters expressing the bitterest repentance and remorse for that treason, whilst he was thus prepared, if necessary, to perpetrate a new one.
They proceeded to perpetrate the same revolting atrocities on the bodies of innocent and virtuous women, and on some of the most illustrious men of our annals.
If under any compulsion of love or war I was induced to perpetrate "apiece of hypocrisy," it would never occur to me to go about saying it was not hypocrisy.
The worst to wallow, and the best to weep; The man who merits most, must most complain: Can we conceive a disregard in Heaven What the worst perpetrate or best endure?
But how stall I describe, in numbers rude, The pangs for poor Chrysomitris decreed, When from her secret stand aghast she viewed The cruel spoiler perpetrate the deed?
