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Example sentences for "fratricide"

Lexicographically close words:
fratrem; fratres; fratri; fratribus; fratricidal; fratris; fratrum; fraud; fraude; fraudful
  1. Thus the idea of Frothi (corresponding to Frothi V in Saxo) as a fratricide is retained.

  2. Thus far nothing has been said about the "short and chronicle-like form in the Icelandic Skjọldungasaga, where the fratricide is called Ingjald, not Frothi.

  3. In the night of the ages," added Gako in a mysterious voice, "there was a terrible crime which we expiate, some fratricide of which we cannot wash our hands.

  4. Each one is ready to become a fratricide in self-defence.

  5. The reason for this particular tourney was to wipe out a deed of murder, and to obliterate from the minds of the people of Verona the fact that a fratricide and a villain ruled over them.

  6. As has been shown, he was cunning, ambitious, and cruel, and a fratricide twice told.

  7. We knew his grandfather; and the race of a fratricide no Dane shall trust again.

  8. The warlike Mars, the rapacity of the wolf, and the fratricide Romulus, form a mirror in which we see reflected the whole historical development of the Romans; so that the story of Romulus is a vest-pocket edition of the history of Rome.

  9. We see no longer a revolting fratricide and the painful sacrifice of virtue to the meanest of passions, but the verdict of the gods upon human presumption.

  10. She drove him from her presence with curses for the treason and the fratricide that he had planned.

  11. Hitherto, either my care or fortune has prevented the fratricide you intended to commit.

  12. Julian in Court dress now ascended the steps of the tribune, and the fratricide invested the last descendant of Constantius Chlorus with the sacred purple of the Caesars.

  13. Let no trace of his fratricide remain; let there be no spot in his own land for his tainted limbs; let no neighbourhood suck infection from him; let not sea nor soil be defiled by harboring his accursed carcase.

  14. Also, the man veiled the monstrosity of his deed with such hardihood of cunning, that he made up a mock pretence of goodwill to excuse his crime, and glossed over fratricide with a show of righteousness.

  15. One party bewailed the death of their leader, the other gave thanks that the tyranny of the fratricide was now laid at rest.

  16. The fratricide of Cain leads to a split in the human family.

  17. The throne which the latter won by fratricide and the aid of the foreigner, he could only hold by fresh concessions to his magnates which fatally reduced the royal power.

  18. Finally the fratricide at Montiel, in 1369, deprived the Jews of their protector and left Henry undisputed master of Castile.

  19. The fratricide was at last slain by this very youth, who had now obtained the appellation of Labhraidh-Loingseach, or Lowry of the Ships.

  20. I myself felled the fratricide with a blow of my iron bar at the moment he was about to do violence to the daughter of Bezenecq the Rich!

  21. Scarcely could he restrain his hand from plunging the dagger, yet reeking with the blood of Tigranes, into the breast of the fratricide he had just preserved from a violent death.

  22. He spake of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come,” till not only his erring brethren trembled, but the fratricide whom accident had brought among his flock.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fratricide" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.