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Definition of Murders
1. murder [v] - See also: murder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Murders
Literary usage of Murders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Friend of Peace by Noah Worcester (1816)
"The day before he was executed, he made confession under oath, ' that he bad
committed seventeen murders: eight in Havanna, and nine elsewhere. ..."
2. The Bloody Bridge: And Other Papers Relating to the Insurrection of 1641 by Thomas Fitzpatrick (1903)
"And about these murders committed by the rebels, apart from charges which rest
on no kind of evidence, the number, however much to be lamented, ..."
3. Days of My Years by Melville Leslie Macnaghten (1914)
"MOTIVELESS murders, are, from a detective's point of view, ... Both of these
murders were committed by sexual maniacs,—by men who killed for the joy of ..."
4. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America by Henry Wilson (1877)
"Whippings and murders in South Carolina, — Outrages in Alabama and Mississippi.
... Though several thousand murders were committed by members of the order ..."
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