manslayer

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No manslayer then the wide world o'er When Mine and Thine are known no more.

From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by Morris, William

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

The temporary restrictions laid on a manslayer were probably dictated by a fear of his victim's ghost.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir

In this case a special hut was not built for the manslayer, and he was allowed to pass the nights in the temple of the war god.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir

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