Read full poem →What is slander?
Tis an assassin at the midnight hour;
Urged on by Envy, that, with footstep soft,
Dictionary Entry
A member of the Nizari Ismaili Muslim community of the Alamut Period
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Common Phrases
. assassinassassin hiredassassin loneassassin professional
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Poetry examples for “assassin”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →But to renew --
Felled by but one assassin --
Prosperity --
Read full poem →For wheresoe'er the shrieking victim hath
Pour'd forth his blood beneath the assassin's knife,
Some hand erects a cross of mouldering lath;
Read full poem →What makes heroic strife?
To whet th’ assassin’s knife,
Or hunt a Parent’s life, wi’ bluidy war?
Read full poem →Went to walk in a grim forest.
There he met an assassin
Attired all in garb of old days;