murd'rous

Paid in gold for murd'rous hire -- bought allegiance!

War Poetry of the South Various

Men march 'mid moles,' mid mounds, 'mid murd'rous mines.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 338, November 1, 1828 Various

Forgive me for that murd'rous thrust which wounded thee to death.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

He struggled gamely to his feet, and faced the murd'rous foe:

The Man from Snowy River 1902

Dragg'd from her bower, by murd'rous ruffian hands,

National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901

I aren't a murd'rous sort o 'man, Master Carey, but he tried to kill me, only he didn't hit hard enough, and I get thinking that there old ruffian won't be perfeck till he's quite finished.

King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale George Manville Fenn 1870

For murd'rous cannon through our streets are driven.

Poems Victor Hugo 1843

Folly's liege-men, what boots such murd'rous raid,

Poems Victor Hugo 1843

As on the Greeks their murd'rous shafts they pour'd:

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834

Probed the hard heart, and lopped the murd'rous hand;

Some Poems Walter Scott 1801