manslayer
Example Sentences
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When the avenger of blood was at his heels, did the manslayer require any violence to urge him on to the asylum where he might lodge secure?
From The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham
No manslayer then the wide world o’er When Mine and Thine are known no more.
From Poems By the Way by William Morris
In them, and in them only,Pg 80 was the manslayer safe from the avenger of blood.
From The Cities of Refuge: or, The Name of Jesus A Sunday book for the young by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
The temporary restrictions laid on a manslayer were probably dictated by a fear of his victim's ghost.
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 Sir James George Frazer
If a manslayer does not believe that the next of kin is on his track, he will not flee to the City of Refuge.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren
