manslayer

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I have been with tribes whom only fear or imminent starvation could drive to attack the lion; and I have seen the naked warriors of the Nandi kill the great, maned manslayer with their spears.

From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore

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)

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

From Poems By the Way 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

In them, and in them only,Pg 80 was the manslayer safe from the avenger of blood.

From The Cities of Refuge: or, The Name of Jesus A Sunday book for the young by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)