murther
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Etymology
Origin of murther
before 900; Middle English morther, Old English morthor; cognate with Gothic maurthr. See mortal
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Och, murther in Irish now, and it's the blissed thruth, Misthress Judy, that I was tellin ye.
From Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman by William L. (William Leete) Stone
“Oh, murther, an’ what’ll become of us all?
From Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers by Henri Théophile Hildibrand
"Bad luck to that glen, I dropt it out there, and with the torrent of water that's falling, it will never be found—och, murther, this is too bad."
From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever
If they gave no occasion of murther then gyue I none ... then am I no hynderer wryting unto the English my countremen an English herball.”
From The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
Therefore Caine did iniury to God, when conuicted of the barbarous and vnnaturall murther of his righteous brother, cryed out tht his sinne was greater then could be forgiuen, Gen. 4.
From A Treatise of Witchcraft by Alexander Roberts
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