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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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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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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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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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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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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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whaur she lay; an syne me,
wannert gyte
agate Kelso toun. “
Murther!” they yaldered, “
Murther!” like dugs.
Embro Tolbooth’s a
dowie jyle. An mercy? Nane...
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introduction into the
desperate trade of street-robbing and
especially of
murther : and of
several robberies which they, and
others of
their gang, have been...
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Marriners or
other dissolute persons joyning with them as
should comitt any
murther [sic: murder]
robbery felony mutiny or
other outrage or
misdemeanor whatsoever...
