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A qualified version of the English saying, "Murder will out."
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
Webster made, in the greatest address ever delivered to a jury, much of the proverb, Murder will out, but this is no peculiarity of murder.
From Revisiting the Earth by Hill, James Langdon
"Murder will out, Mr. Sheriff," said he; and in the interests of truth and justice he hastened to pick up the paper.
From Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
This evidence by itself would not have amounted to much, but now comes the curious part of the story, showing the truth of the old adage, "Murder will out."
From Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal by Haggard, Henry Rider
Fyodor Dostoievsky's solemn sermon to the effect that murder will out has been dramatized before and will doubtless be dramatized again.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inasmuch as meaning, like murder, will out, each of us has only the choices of seeking it out for ourself or letting it passively happen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sirs: Truth, like murder, will out eventually, has, as a matter of fact, come out in this matter already.
From Time Magazine Archive
Director Mervyn LeRoy has tried halfheartedly to keep the suds from showing, but soap opera, like murder, will out.
From Time Magazine Archive
As some one has said, "Genius, like murder, will out!"
From The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors by Klickmann, Flora
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