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Did I not strive with it, and hold my manhood so long as I might; and at last it might no longer be, and I became a beast and a man-slayer?
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This Gordon is a veteran slave-trader, a man-stealer and man-slayer by profession, hardened in cruelty….
Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007
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This Gordon is a veteran slave-trader, a man-stealer and man-slayer by profession, hardened in cruelty….
Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007
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This Gordon is a veteran slave-trader, a man-stealer and man-slayer by profession, hardened in cruelty….
Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007
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This Gordon is a veteran slave-trader, a man-stealer and man-slayer by profession, hardened in cruelty….
Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007
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"I am no man-slayer," he says, "but still I will do whatever thou wilt."
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown
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Gudleif was a great man-slayer, and one of the strongest of men, and hardy and forward in everything.
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown
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It was a "city of refuge"; and over these hills or up and down this valley rushed the accidental man-slayer to seek refuge within its gates from the blood-thirsty pursuer.
My Three Days in Gilead Elmer Ulysses Hoenshel
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"Thou art no man-slayer," she says, "and so naught will come of it even if ye two do meet."
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown
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Knox then wrote a letter to the kirk-session, saying that Kirkcaldy's defence proved him “to be a murderer at heart,” for St. John says that “whoso loveth not his brother is a man-slayer”; and Kirkcaldy did not love the man who was killed.
John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905
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