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The Yankees are more like a grimly real family: sullen and bruised by grievances and quarrelsome and full of parricidal silences.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whenever the two got together to swap dreams, Freud would invariably find parricidal elements in Jung's dream scenes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Brave man! tearing asunder your heart's dearest chords, to deliver your country from the parricidal stroke of fierce rebellion.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

A pretty and a sweet persuasion," exclaimed the priest, laughing heartily; "but, my dear son, I am not so easily killed, even if such parricidal thoughts were anything more than a jest.

From Corse de Leon, Volume I (of 2) or, The Brigand; a Romance by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

Thus, by the parricidal hands of its own children, perished the long parliament, which, under a variety of forms, had, for more than twelve years, defended and invaded the liberties of the nation.

From The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 by Belloc, Hilaire