manslayer
Example Sentences
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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 Bertram Mitford
In this case a special hut was not built for the manslayer, and he was allowed to pass the nights in the temple of the war god.
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
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
And so in the midst of these voyces, and in the fury of the flames, he with his wife and the manslayer his sonne, in the yere of Christ 1010. ended his life.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Richard Hakluyt
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 Sir James George Frazer
