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Definition of Assassins
1. assassin [n] - See also: assassin
Literary usage of Assassins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall (1827)
"This taught to neglect the plain sense, and seek an allegorical one in the Koran;
and it formed the essence of the secret doctrine. Hence the assassins were ..."
2. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by Robert Browning, W. Tyas Harden, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman, William Groser (1880)
"Mrs. Shelley says in her Preface to the Essays &c., in which collection she first
gave The assassins, that it "was never touched afterwards," meaning, ..."
3. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"AGAINST THE assassins OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN MAY it please the Court: It only
remains for me to sum up the evidence, ..."
4. Lew Wallace;: An Autobiography by Lew Wallace (1906)
"The attorney- general at length decided that the assassins of a president were
public enemies, and as such should be tried before a military tribunal. ..."
5. Lew Wallace; an Autobiography by Lew Wallace (1906)
"The attorney- general at length decided that the assassins of a president were
public enemies, and as such should be tried before a military tribunal. ..."
6. A History of the Law of Nations by Thomas Alfred Walker (1899)
"assassins and the hirers of assassins are equally blameable. AD enemy may be
slain indeed, but not at any time nor in any fashion, and not every enemy. ..."
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