murthering

• “murthering" the quail, "often in the angles of the fences where the motion of the wind prevents the snow from settling, I carry them both chaff and grain: the one to feed them, the other to prevent their tender feet from freezing fast to the earth as I have frequently observed them to do.”

  Letters from an American Farmer

• “God, and bring him in saying, I will descend, and be like the prince of darkness; and what is it better, to make the cause of religion to descend, to the cruel and execrable actions of murthering princes, butchery of people, and subversion of states and governments?”

  The Essays

• “May not I conjecture, that my close murthering is purposed, and this way acted, as on him that (in his life time) had offended them?”

  The Decameron

• “And a day and place being appointed, where the consultation should bee kept, in the meane time those miscreants conspired together, about the murthering of the King.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “Which being done, they set forward against Russia, and made foule hauocke there, destroying cities and castles and murthering the people.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “And about the same time in the Dutch Regiment, an other for murthering of one of his companions, about a quarrell betweene themselues, rising as it was supposed, vpon their drinke, was by order of Martiall law, presently tyed to the partie so murthered, and foorthwith both of them so cast into the sea.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “Rome a world of folks get an honest livelihood by poisoning, drubbing, lambasting, stabbing, and murthering; but the catchpoles earn theirs by being thrashed; so that if they were long without a tight lambasting, the poor dogs with their wives and children would be starved.”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “Two minutes before the monotony of existence is broken by a fight there will not be a soul to be seen, but no sooner is it discovered that some unlucky wight is in present receipt of a "big bating" than hundreds appear on the spot, and struggle for a "vacancy," like the lame piper who howled for the same at the "murthering" of a bailiff.”

  Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.

• “Finallie vpon remorse of conscience (as hath béene thought) for murthering of his coosine (or as some say his brother) erle Bearne, he went on pilgrimage to Hierusalem, and died by the way of cold which he”

  Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (8 of 8) The Eight Booke of the Historie of England

• “Piers of Exton, after he had thus slaine him, wept right bitterlie, as one striken with the pricke of a giltie conscience, for murthering him, whome he had so long time obeied as king.”

  Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV

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