manslayer

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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

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

There it stood, the terrible beast, the manslayer, gigantic in its might, and for a moment the spectator stood petrified.

From Harley Greenoak's Charge by Mitford, Bertram

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