Word: killed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wild story rose, like a drowned cadaver, to the air. . . . How this man Parton had tried to kill Eliphalet ... how Eliphalet had marooned him on an island, sailed away in a ship whose cargo was a load of black, bewildered, suffering flesh from Africa . . . how hate had kept alive the man who walked like a cat and kept Eliphalet drumming with long yellow fingers on the counting-house table...
Strange events conspired in sea-sleepy Portsmouth. Eliphalet sent the boy Jervaile to kill Parton in a tavern; Parton bested him, went back with him to kill Eliphalet. They came upon the old merchant in his library at dawn; his ink had upset and a slow blot was spreading through the figures. "Look out of the window, Eliphalet," said Parton. Pushing back the shutters, Greer saw a tall ship treading in and out of the wind at the harbor's mouth-a clipper with raked masts and a forefoot like a seabird's beak, waiting there with...
...object of the visit, which is of great importance, is undoubtedly to rally a large section of the Boer population to a closer loyalty to the Crown and to kill the republican spirit voiced during the past election campaign (TIME, June 16) by Premier Hertzog and his followers. There is a good chance, however, that a term of office has already made the Premier recant, for it was he who re-issued the invitation to the Prince which General Smuts made some years...
...time when the Italian Government is dropping courtesies to the Church of Rome and the latter is significantly but coldly observing the amenities, His Eminence Cardinal Pietro Maffi, Archbishop of Pisa, chose to issue a pastoral letter to his flock on the subject of "Thou shalt not kill...
...would dare to contend that, under the spirit of democratic government, the power to kill legislation, providing the revenues to pay the expenses of government should, during the last few days of a session, ever be in the hands of a minority or perhaps one Senator? Why should they ever be able to compel the President of the United States to call an extra session of Congress to keep in functioning activity the machinery of the Government itself? Who would dare maintain that, in the last analysis, the right of the Senate itself to act should ever be subordinated...