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"I teach singing to the youths of the Connecticut levy." "You might be better employed. The young hounds go laughing and singing too much already through the woods, when they ought not to breathe louder than a fox in his cover. Can you use the smoothbore, or handle the rifle?" "Praised be God, I have never had occasion to meddle with murderous implements!"
Was ever scheme so wild as to bring three great bodies of men, across broad rivers, in the face of murderous batteries, merely on the chance of inducing an enemy, strongly entrenched and guarded, to leave his position and come out and engage us? 'Twas the talk of the town. No wonder grave people shook their heads, and prophesied fresh disaster.
In some points it has been John Eliot's experience upon a larger scale; but in this case the political quarrel led to the rise of a savage and murderous sect among the Maories, a sort of endeavour to combine some features of Christianity and even Judaism with the old forgotten Paganism, and yet promoting even cannibalism.
The favourite 'bunkum' is about 'baring the Christian negro's throat to the Ashanti knife. But the Fantis and other Coast-tribes were originally as murderous and bloodthirsty in their battles and religious rites as their northern neighbours: if there be any improvement it is wholly due to the presence and the pressure, physical as well as moral, of Europeans of Christians, if you like.
A bold falcon the other day swooped down upon a wood-swallow that was imitating the falcon's flight just above my head, and bore it bleeding to a tree-top, while I stood shocked at the audacity of the cannibal. A bullet dropped the murderous bird with its dead victim fast in the talons.
Whilst princes, on their parts, learned a lesson they have not since forgotten or ever ceased to practise, and combining their hosts of slaves, lashed them onward to scare this stranger, Freedom, from the earth, even as in our times of intelligence they have done, and will do; and the brainless slaves, so lashed, shouted and went forward to the murderous work which rivetted their own fetters, even as in our time they have done, and will again do in times to come."
Scarce had Bruce gotten fairly into his stride when the boche bullets began to sing not a desultory little flurry of shots, as before; but by the score, and with a murderous earnestness.
I'll bet you my Indian dagger against the bottled tape-worm in your den that she'll swallow the biggest lie I can invent. That's a generous offer, and you'd better jump at it." "Thanks, I'm not so fond of murderous tools as you are." "Well, a tape-worm is as murderous as a dagger, any day, and not half so pretty."
He could say nothing except, "father, father," and the smith found no other answer than the harsh "begone!" Ruth approached the armorer, clung to his side, and pleaded: "Hear him, don't send him away so; he is your child, and if anger just now overpowered him. . . ." "Spanish custom to abuse women!" cried Adam. "I have no son Navarrete, or whatever the murderous monster calls himself.
"Or a cat with murderous designs on a mouse." "We must expose the whole thing." "Of course." "Won't Jim be mad?" "Let him! He won't dare to thrash us while Roscoe is round." There was, indeed, about Socrates Smith an air of mystery, portentous and suggestive.
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