84 examples of parricide in sentences

Murder, parricide, and treason, are modest appellations when referred to that conduct by which a king is betrayed, and a nation ruined, under pretence of promoting its interest, by a man trusted with the administration of publick affairs.

The Country assassinated,it is a horrible crime; but they were enraptured at the jugglery blended with the parricide.

This man is on a road where logic grasps him and leads him to parricide.

Well, then! when the ball of Executive Power pierces the sash of Legislative Power, it is visible parricide!

Why, is he not a Parricide a Player?

But the wind brought to his ears sounds resembling death-rattles; the tears of the dew reminded him of heavier drops, and every evening, the sun would spread blood in the sky, and every night, in his dreams, he lived over his parricide.

Wilful murder, poisoning, and parricide were capitally punished.

Or what union is there in nature between the idea of the relation of a father with killing than that of a son or neighbour, that those are combined into one complex idea, and thereby made the essence of the distinct species PARRICIDE, whilst the other makes no distinct species at all?

"Oppression, fraud, cozening, usury, knavery, bawdry, murder, and tyranny, are the beginning of many ancient families:" "one hath been a bloodsucker, a parricide, the death of many a silly soul in some unjust quarrels, seditions, made many an orphan and poor widow, and for that he is made a lord or an earl, and his posterity gentlemen for ever after.

Sotion had embraced the views of Pythagoras respecting the transmigration of souls, a doctrine which made the eating of animal food little better than cannibalism or parricide.

Safi Mirza, indignant at a project which tended to turn him into a parricide, declared all to the Sebah, and placed himself entirely at his disposal.

It was for a long time imagined by the Romans, that no son could be the murderer of his father; and they had therefore no punishment appropriated to parricide.

They were therefore obliged to supply and to change their institutions; to deter the parricide by a new law, and to transfer capital punishments from the parent to the magistrate.

Papa von Ludwig objects so violently to all this love-making that he eventually succumbs to a regular East-Prussian stroke of apoplexy which all but leads to a charge of parricide against Karl by his base brother, Wilhelm.

"It is a crime to put a citizen of Rome in bonds; it is an atrocity to scourge him; to put him to death is well-nigh parricide; what shall I say it is to crucify him?Language has no word by which I may designate such an enormity.

" "Ah, and does one have to preserve appearances even in such matters as parricide?" "But certainly it looks much better for Father to be supposed to die of indigestion.

Alas, poor parricide!

Among his contemporaries were, a rival teacher Gosâla the son of Ma[.m]khaliwhom he defeated in a dispute, the King of VidehaBhambhasâra or Bibbhisâra called Sre[n.]ika, and his sons Abhayakumâra and the parricide Ajáta['s]atru or Kû[n.]ika, who protected him or accepted his doctrine, and also the nobles of the Lichchhavi and Mallaki races.

Si Je ne l'eusse pas rencontre sous ma main, Je purgeois la France du regicide, du parricide, du patricide D'Orleans.

If he had not fallen in my way, I should have purged France of the regicide, parricide, patricide D'Orleans.

Si Je ne l'eusse pas rencontre sous ma main, Je purgeois la France du regicide, du parricide, du patricide D'Orleans.

If he had not fallen in my way, I should have purged France of the regicide, parricide, patricide D'Orleans.

On the other hand, the Americans, who, if they had contented themselves with a struggle for lawful liberty, would have deserved applause, seem to me to have incurred the guilt of parricide, by renouncing their parent, by making her ruin their favourite object, and by associating themselves with her worst enemy for the accomplishment of their purpose.

Mr. Banks, by his early principles, was, no doubt, biassed to the Whig interest, and, perhaps, it may be true, that in tracing the actions of Cromwell, he may have dwelt with a kind of increasing pleasure on the bright side of his character, and but slightly hinted at those facts on which the other party fasten, when they mean to traduce him as a parricide and an usurper.

With Caïn may be compared Le Parricide, one of the 1859 series, which is also inspired by the theme of the guilty conscience pursuing the murderer.

84 examples of  parricide  in sentences