38 Verbs to Use for the Word killings

Hunters killed so many, killing old and young, that soon there were scarcely any left, so a law was passed by the Russian government forbidding any killing for five years.

The Russian sable, otter, and South Sea seal are practically eliminated for commercial purposes, due to international laws which prohibit the killing of these animals for the next ten or fifteen years, so as to give them a chance to increase.

Unfortunately the sentiment of the community in the vicinity of the Olympics is just about what it was in Colorado in the seventies and in the early eightiesalmost complete apathy, so far as taking effective precaution is concerned, to prevent the killing of these animals in violation of the law.

When Carteret had spoken, and the crowd had cheered him, they felt that they had done all that courtesy required, and he was good-naturedly elbowed aside while they proceeded with the work in hand, which was now to drive out the negroes from the hospital and avenge the killing of their comrade.

This explanation is far more consonant with the character of God, and were it not that our vision has been so completely darkened by the existence of slavery in our country, we never could so far have dishonored Him as to have supposed that He sanctioned the murder of a servant; although slaveholding legislators might legalize the killing of a slave in four different ways.(Stroud's Sketch of Slave Laws.)

If one ever mentioned the killing of a dove, it put him in a bad humour.

The man needed killing, but it is asking too much of human nature to put up with his being made a martyr of.

The death of Brett was a sad mischance, but no one who read the evidence could regard the killing of Brett as an intentional murder.

He wasn't there quick enough to stop the killing of Armstrong, but he got there fast enough to nab Reeve.

Perhaps it was because she had learned that a determined hunt, with many beaters and men on elephants, invariably followed her killings.

State laws should be encouraged, but I am convinced that while effective in the East, they will not be effective in the West in time, because of the scattered population, the greater areas of country involved, the greater difficulty of watching and controlling the killing, and the actual need of game for food by settlers.

God would not only forgive killing but reward those who were the most expert at the game.

There is no question as to the right of Congress to enact laws governing the killing of game on the public domain, or within a forest reserve where this domain lies within the boundaries of a Territory.

Thus, concerning the oath not to hurt, on which the Jaina lays the greatest emphasis: it includes not only the intentional killing or hurting of living beings, plants, or the souls existing in dead matter, it requires also the utmost carefulness in the whole manner of life, in all movements, a watchfulness over all functions of the body by which anything living might be hurt.

The prejudice which justifies the killing of your adversary, so long as it is done in an open contest and with equal weapons, obviously looks upon might as really right, and a duel as the interference of God.

The clerks of the Board of Agriculture should be sent at least once in their career to help in superintending the killing of infected swine and interviewing actual farmers, while an official in the Railway section of the Board of Trade should acquire some personal knowledge of the inside of a railway office.

This makes such killing, etc., lawful at other times, but only lawful because not made unlawful.

She begged me not to go after Perris because he would fight and that meant a killing.

And the policy set on foot by him was developed but a few years ago into a scheme of slaughter, which in atrocity has far surpassed the killings of Attila, of whom the Nationalist poet sings, or even the designs of the deposed Sultan.

On our first visit to Ringan at the land-locked Carolina harbour I had thought Shalah's pace killing, but that was but a saunter to what he now showed me.

If girls of the best families were so treated, how must those of the common people have fared? Braganza ordered the killing of all Spaniards and Chinese at Minalabag.

Besides, a man like Hamlet could not fail to perceive how the killing of his uncle, and in such an attitude, would look to others.

There was a triumphant ring to Leverage's statement that the dead man's valet had been discharged at some time during the twenty-four hours which immediately preceded the killing.

Had the shirt been given her by the man, this would have been to presuppose a killing of the child already plannedthe accused, truthful as she was, had not attempted to charge even this man with a crime that had never been committed.

We were about to begin actual killing when you arrived, replied Larry, grinning.

38 Verbs to Use for the Word  killings