manslayer
Example Sentences
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The manslayer of old required to be within the refuge-city.
From The Cities of Refuge: or, The Name of Jesus A Sunday book for the young by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)
Then said Amis: “Never shall it be that my fellow be a manslayer for the healing of me.”
From Old French Romances by Morris, William
And so in the midst of these voyces, and in the fury of the flames, he with his wife and the manslayer his sonne, in the yere of Christ 1010. ended his life.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard
The wild creature, quivering with ferocious passions, put a fondling arm around the manslayer.
From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by Venable, William Henry
When the avenger of blood was at his heels, did the manslayer require any violence to urge him on to the asylum where he might lodge secure?
From The Ordinance of Covenanting by Cunningham, John
