"Will you make affidavit," demanded he, in the tone of a country justice taking an examination, "that old Squire Higginbotham of Kimballton was
murdered in his orchard the night before last, and found hanging on his great pear-tree yesterday morning?"
But this I know, that I had a mother, that five men leagued against one woman,
murdered her clandestinely by night -- silently -- like cowards.
In another moment he was in his room, and the twins were standing aghast over the body of the
murdered man!
How much more a
murdered that could destroy radiant innocence!
It made the people shiver to think of poor old Uncle Silas toting off the diseased down to the place in his tobacker field where the dog dug up the body, but there warn't much sympathy around amongst the faces, and I heard one cuss say "'Tis the coldest blooded work I ever struck, lugging a
murdered man around like that, and going to bury him like a animal, and him a preacher at that."
"Lizaveta was
murdered, too," Nastasya blurted out, suddenly addressing Raskolnikov.
A MAN committed a murder, and was pursued by the relations of the man whom he
murdered. On his reaching the river Nile he saw a Lion on its bank and being fearfully afraid, climbed up a tree.
An old man named Daniel Baker, living near Lebanon, Iowa, was suspected by his neighbors of having
murdered a peddler who had obtained permission to pass the night at his house.
Giles Hicks, living but a short distance from where I used to live,
murdered my wife's cousin, a young girl between fifteen and six- teen years of age, mangling her person in the most horrible manner, breaking her nose and breastbone with a stick, so that the poor girl expired in a few hours afterward.
But the governor Spaniard still said No; it was an Englishman that had saved all their lives, and he would never consent to put an Englishman to death, though he had
murdered half of them; nay, he said if he had been killed himself by an Englishman, and had time left to speak, it should be that they should pardon him.
The ex-governor of Idaho had been mysteriously
murdered. The crime, at the time, was openly charged to the mine owners by the socialists and miners.
'who has been nearly murdered--all but
murdered, sir, --by young Twist.'