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The Yankees are more like a grimly real family: sullen and bruised by grievances and quarrelsome and full of parricidal silences.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whenever the two got together to swap dreams, Freud would invariably find parricidal elements in Jung's dream scenes.

From Time Magazine Archive

The seeming fabled story     of early chivalry, in them renewed,   Shines out to-day with an ascendent glory     Above that field of parricidal feud.

From Purgatory by Sadlier, Mrs. James

This inimical attitude should have come as no surprise to students of either urban realities or of communism, their parricidal off-spring.

From The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism by Vaknin, Samuel

It resulted necessarily from his duplicity, his parricidal projects, and his English connexions.

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron