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Fhairshon swore a feud Against the clan M'Tavish; Marched into their land To murder and to ravish; For he did resolve To extirpate the vipers, With four-and-twenty men And five-and-thirty pipers.
Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.
Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. 134
Five tomahawks, wi' blude red-rusted; Five scymitars, wi'murder crusted.
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.
Mordre wol out, that see we day by day.
See how love and murder will out.
If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.
Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts.
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Glory Be, whin Business gets above sellin'tinpinny nails Durkheim in a brown paper cornucopy,'tis hard to tell it fr'm murther.
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
Murder doesn't round out anybody's life except the murdered's and sometimes the murderer's.
Television has brought back murder into the home where it belongs.
Murder is a unique crime for which we can never make reparation.
Ez fer war, I call it murder, There you hev it plain an'flat; I don't want to go no furder Than myTestyment fer that; God hez sed so plump an'fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
Herein may be seen noble chyvalrye, curtosye, humanyte , frendlynesse, hardynesse, love, frendshyp, cowardyse, murdre, hate, vertue, and synne.
In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder.
A woman is stripped of everything by them [saloons]. Her husband is torn from her; she is robbed of her sons, her home, her food, and her virtue; and then they strip her clothes off and hang her up bare in these dens of robbery and murder. Truly does the saloon make a woman bare of all things!
What can I tell you, son of mine? I could tell you of heartbreak, hatred blind, I could tell of crimes that shame mankind, Of brutal wrong and deeds malign, Of rape and murder, son of mine; But I'll tell instead of brave and fine When lives of black and white entwine, And men in brotherhood combine This would I tell you, son of mine.
Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroysmy property, and kills or threatenstokill me or those that are in it, and to'bind me in all cases whatsoever'to his absolute will, am I to suffer it?
One murder made a villain Millions a hero.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
I met Murder on the way He had a mask like Castlereagh.
Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel- picking, murder, homicide, and agreateffusionof blood, as daily experiences teaches.
Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out.
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshedthey produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.
Murder is always a mistake One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect. Enough of science and of art; Close up those barren leaves; Come forth and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.
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