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Now from that day to this the murtherer is to find; there are some to say old Lachie could put his hand on him at an hour's notice if he had the notion.

From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Munro, Neil

Behold I am condemned to die as a murtherer, for the safeguard of myne Host Milo and his family.

From The Golden Asse by Adlington, William, fl. 1566

What's worse than murtherer, that I may name it?

From King Henry VI, Part 3 by Shakespeare, William

This is a lad of fifteen and he hath not slain a sparrow; so how should he be a murtherer?

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

He wad na be bringing her here at siccan a painfu' time and occasion as the trial of her ain father's murtherer.

From The Lost Lady of Lone by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte