It's a memorably horrific image of parricidal rejection. From Wordnik.com. [Monster Mush] Reference
Let traitors arm, and villains draw the parricidal sword!. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
I was conceived “the parricidal vision from the loin.”. From Wordnik.com. [Summer of Deliverance] Reference
Well, — I pity you still more for being descended from fathers at once both parricidal and idolatrous. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Those impious men whom you slew, shall even in the shades below pay the penalty of their parricidal treason. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
Brave man! tearing asunder your heart's dearest chords, to deliver your country from the parricidal stroke of fierce rebellion. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Oh what a most blessed day was that, which, while the carcases of those parricidal traitors were strewed about everywhere, beheld. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
In virtue of it the nation exists, and by the supreme warrant of it the nation maintains its existence against parricidal treason. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Billaud Varennes – You will shudder with horror when you are apprized that the armed force of Paris is entrusted into parricidal hands. From Wordnik.com. [Moniteur/Morning Chronicle] Reference
The era in which photography was widely attacked (as parricidal with respect to painting, predatory with respect to people) was a brief one. From Wordnik.com. [Photography in Search of Itself] Reference
A few weeks before I was born, he wrote a poem called “The Son,” full of mythic imagery about “the parricidal vision from the loin.”. From Wordnik.com. [Summer of Deliverance] Reference
Could even the pious people who flocked to the cathedral know there was amongst them a Charles whose hands were stained with parricidal guilt?. From Wordnik.com. [Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius] Reference
“At the convocation of these miserable peasants who, in their parricidal folly, have dared to dream of the overthrow of the best of princes!”. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Name] Reference
Kimberley, when Mafeking, were in the very jaws of deadly peril -- you thought it safe, no doubt, to lift the parricidal hand against your country. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
For what else was there which could have been ratified by treaty and mutual pledges between Antonius and Dolabella, those foul and parricidal traitors?. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
I have read you this letter, O conscript fathers, not because I thought it worth reading, but in order to let you see all his parricidal treasons revealed by his own confessions. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
She has struck a parricidal blow at the heart of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Civil War in America] Reference
We conjure them to forbear their maddened, parricidal hand. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Memoir Of Daniel Drayton]
And thus blindly are brought about the parricidal tragedies that Zola. From Wordnik.com. [East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne] Reference
Minutes after he's hauled in parricidal astrophysics prodigy Alice Morgan. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Young Simon, the son of the peasant, could not join in this parricidal act, although the. From Wordnik.com. [The Son of Monte-Cristo] Reference
The World of Yesterday, passages of which seem to incite Hofmann to parricidal thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [London Review of Books] Reference
Our thoughts next revert to the death of the late President by an act of parricidal treason. From Wordnik.com. [Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln Delivered at the request of both Houses of Congress of America] Reference
It resulted necessarily from his duplicity, his parricidal projects, and his English connexions. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I] Reference
Perish the hand that would with parricidal intent aim a blow at our national unity and integrity. From Wordnik.com. [Tupelo] Reference
Ministers of the King, guilty authors of the parricidal ordinance of the 6th of March, read this and blush!. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I] Reference
As if the purpose of that paper was to serve those whose parricidal hands were at the throat of our Nation. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II] Reference
Your name came amongst us only as his who turned parricidal arms against the representatives of your country. From Wordnik.com. [Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography] Reference
Walworth, cowering amongst the pine-trees, expressed the burden of parricidal blood that had of late oppressed its memories. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Chesapeake] Reference
Billaud Varennes — You will shudder with horror when you are apprised that the armed force of Paris is intrusted to parricidal hands. From Wordnik.com. [Downfall of Robespierre] Reference
"At the convocation of these miserable peasants who, in their parricidal folly, have dared to dream of the overthrow of the best of princes!". From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Name] Reference
He maintains continually, and without blurring its lines by a word of reservation or compromise, the dogma of State Sovereignty in its most extreme and almost parricidal form. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the United States] Reference
A parricidal ingratitude, on the ruins both of the throne and tribune, he reared the throne of his despotism. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
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