Read full poem →While chalk and alum and plaster are sold to the poor for bread,
And the spirit of murder works in the very means of life.
Dictionary Entry
The crime of deliberately killing another person without justification.
In a Sentence
“The defendant was charged with murder.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “murder”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →caresses
That murder the youth in a man or ever his heart have its will.
Thy lips cannot laugh and thine eyes cannot weep; thou art pale as a
Read full poem →Gathering it up between the feet of love
Or off the knees of murder reaching it.
Read full poem →In such a martyrdom, to vex their eves
Do crown thy murder'd poem, ^c, *
Read full poem →In equal knots: this bears no brands, nor darts,
To murder different hearts,
But, in a calm and god-like unity,
Read full poem →Eious deprecations and grief-mingled fury of Edith (upon the murder of
er tather by Rollo, in the Bloody Brother) to the gri^* hnd fury of Mac-
Read full poem →In such a martyrdom, to vok their eyes,
Do crown thy murder'd poem ; which shall rise
A glorified work to time, when fire.
Read full poem →You cannot such a secret keep;
'Twill out, like murder, in your sleep;
A touch will tell it, though, for pride,
Read full poem →The operators are under arrest for murder. Gover-
nor Tanner has the state militia on the ground and has
Read full poem →And your wide eyes looked on me
Like a Mænad musing murder,
Or the mask of Melpomene.