SIR, -- The word "patricide" in your issue of this morning (telegrams) was an error. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference
He had been ready to commit a kind of mental patricide. From Wordnik.com. [Final Resting Place of The Pen] Reference
RPJr is the patricide who pleads for mercy as an orphan. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
The condition that Lyle had produced is called patricide. From Wordnik.com. [March 11th, 2009] Reference
"Take him out and make an example of him," the patricide howled. From Wordnik.com. [Fiddler Fair]
"But would the people of Dinander kneel to Favian as a patricide?". From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Warlord]
The BJP must take this to heart and commit the much-needed patricide. From Wordnik.com. [BJP can never shed its stigma of Babri and Best Bakery] Reference
Had the trussing of Chancellor been a primitive attempt at symbolic patricide?. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Edge] Reference
And so died the young patricide who would have stood by the throne of the world's ruler. From Wordnik.com. [Tentacles Of Evil]
SIR, — The word “patricide” in your issue of this morning (telegrams) was an error. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
It would be a nice read, but I doubt this instance of blogging patricide would happen, alas. From Wordnik.com. [An innocent question] Reference
Current Music: crown me king- "the flowchart explains patricide"3 gunslingers | crown me king. From Wordnik.com. [mordicai: crown me king!] Reference
This costly din and derision of partisan patricide is far more destructive than foreign enemies. From Wordnik.com. [John Wellington Ennis: The Monkey, The Organ Grinder, & the Swift Boating of Van Jones] Reference
His personal guards surrounded him, duty-bound despite loathing him for his patricide and treason. From Wordnik.com. [The Fire In His Hands]
But having major father issues isn't the same thing as favoring, or being indifferent to, patricide. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
"The BJP must...commit the much-needed patricide," advises Jyotirmaya Sharma, but that's no solution. From Wordnik.com. [BJP can never shed its stigma of Babri and Best Bakery] Reference
If there is such a thing as cinematic patricide, Bonnie and Clyde would have to plead guilty to the crime. From Wordnik.com. [STAR] Reference
If he had not fallen in my way, I should have purged France of the regicide, parricide, patricide D'Orleans. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
Vicky helped her husband off to their tent, while Tasmin gave the violent Kate a lecture on the evils of patricide. From Wordnik.com. [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference
Si Je ne l'eusse pas rencontre sous ma main, Je purgeois la France du regicide, du parricide, du patricide D'Orleans. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
It is as though the scene of patricide, Oedipus's angry slaying of the stranger who is really his father, had never occurred. From Wordnik.com. [Crossroads of Philosophy and Cultural Studies: Body, Context, Performativity, Community] Reference
From one point of view a son or daughter would do equally well, but the public might boggle at anything so horrible as patricide. From Wordnik.com. [Best Detective Stories]
And, you know, matricide and patricide have always been viewed as among the most horrible, if not the most horrible, of all crimes. From Wordnik.com. [Alliance]
Martin Gilbert's book reminds us that anti-Semitism is the dark turn of the modern mind against itself, and a form of cultural patricide. From Wordnik.com. [Saving Civilization From Itself] Reference
He did not even spare the youthful patricide Beatrice. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
NEW YORK-There was no patricide in the Bronx, after all. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
This was laughed at before the shadow of Booth's patricide was cast ahead. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book]
Pathologist in patricide trial says hospital might have saved victim's life. From Wordnik.com. [Page Modules] Reference
This patricide goes down poorly with Peter's new fiancee, and she rejects him. From Wordnik.com. [MoviesOnline!] Reference
Gone are the days when culminated in one of cinema history's most violent acts of patricide. From Wordnik.com. [Esquire.com Article Feed] Reference
Yet this hirsute hero seems oddly unaffected by the trail of symbolic patricide left in his wake. From Wordnik.com. [Reason Magazine - All Reason Articles from the Past Year: Page 1] Reference
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