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sound development can be seen with
burden (from burthen). The
alternative murther (attested up to the 19th century)
springs directly from the Old English...
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Murther and
Walking Spirits,
first published by
McClelland and
Stewart in 1991, is a
novel by
Canadian novelist Robertson Davies.
Murther and Walking...
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Murther and
Walking Spirits (1991),
would have been the
first two
volumes in
another trilogy. For example, "Gil" Gilmartin, the
narrator of
Murther and...
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trilogy by
Robertson Davies, of
which the
author completed two novels,
Murther and
Walking Spirits (1991) and The
Cunning Man (1994).
Austin Clarke, a...
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which further established him as a
major figure in the
literary world:
Murther and
Walking Spirits (1991) and The
Cunning Man (1994). A
third novel in...
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political pamphlets published in London,
among them
Gallienus Redivivus, or
Murther will out, &c.
Being a true
Account of the De
Witting of Glencoe, Gaffney...
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Machet and
Pistol in
their Hands, and
cursed and
swore at the Men, to
murther the Deponent; and that they
should kill her, to
prevent her
coming against...
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Thomas Overbury, as "Thomas Overburie", was
written as "O! O! a
busie murther" (an old form of "murder"), with a V
counted as U.
William Drummond of...
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plainelie hearing him
utter a
wailefull noise, as the
tormentors were
about to
murther him, so that
diverse [i.e., several]
being awakened therewith (as they...
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mentioned in Macbeth's
soliloquy from Act 2
Scene 1 of Macbeth: "wither'd
Murther ... With Tarquin's
ravishing strides,
towards his
design /
Moves like a...
