barricade
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When environmental conditions change quickly, fungi turn into opportunistic parricides, attacking and feasting on their enfeebled animal kin.
From Slate • Dec. 20, 2012
Crassus, she told him too, the richest citizen of Rome, and Caius Julius Cæsar, the most popular, awaited but the first success to join the parricides of the Republic.
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Herbert, Henry William
So little truth there is in the principle, which Catiline had set forth in his first address to his banded parricides, "that the community of desires and dislikes constitutes, in one word, true friendship!"
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Herbert, Henry William
I'll have none of traitors and of parricides!
From Cleopatra by Haggard, Henry Rider
But, you will ask me perchance, who will find fault with any punishment inflicted upon the parricides of the republic?
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Herbert, Henry William
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