Word: kill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prefecture she was examined and readily admitted that she intended to kill M. Krassin. "It is shameful," she remonstrated, "to see him here in Paris. If some one doesn't kill him he will kill others. He will cause a revolution in France, as in Russia. I want to kill him to spare this country the horrors I have seen. In Russia I saw my own brother killed. The famine was terrible. Mothers ate their children, and I want to spare France these horrors...
...made the bread. Little Eva went to bed with a temperature. Elsie, ashamed somehow, offered to give notice. Then said Mrs. Raste, that admirable woman, knowing herself beaten, conceding that love is power: "Then you want to make it still more difficult for me. Do you want to kill...
When a man, ridden with an incurable malady, begs his doctor to kill him, no medical man can administer this last, inexorable and most gentle medicine without risking prosecution for murder, for manslaughter. Last week a bill was introduced into the Parliament of Denmark to permit medical Danes to prescribe death "if the action is undertaken in order to release a hopelessly sick person from severe and inevitable suffering...
Stevenson is spoken of as perpetually gay in the midst of physical agony, financial reverses, artistic disappointment. It is true that he was of a buoyant nature?a genial bubble riding stormy seas. But he was subject to fits of overwhelming depression. "Oh Medea, kill me or make me young again!" he cries...
...then, even if a man's blood is clean, we cannot inject it into the veins of any patient. The blood of different people varies greatly in its chemical composition, and if the wrong kind of blood is put in a patient it is very likely to kill him immediately. So we have to examine the blood of both donor and patient very carefully to make sure that no such catastrophe could possibly occur...