manslayer

Example Sentences

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The ceremony of consecrating a manslayer was elaborate.

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

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

I have been with tribes whom only fear or imminent starvation could drive to attack the lion; and I have seen the naked warriors of the Nandi kill the great, maned manslayer with their spears.

From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore

The manslayer of old required to be within the refuge-city.

From The Cities of Refuge: or, The Name of Jesus A Sunday book for the young by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)

Far, far more so than the manslayer had of old in his.

From The Cities of Refuge: or, The Name of Jesus A Sunday book for the young by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)