Sentence examples for burn to kill from inspiring English sources

"In front we show respect, but inside we burn to kill them".

During his court-martial, Waller testified that he had been under orders from the volatile, aging Brigadier General Jacob Smith ("Hell-Roaring Jake," to his comrades) to transform the island into a "howling wilderness," to "kill and burn" to the greatest degree possible — "The more you kill and burn, the better it will please me" — and to shoot anyone "capable of bearing arms".

"Was there a rule then that said you shouldn't bomb, shouldn't kill, shouldn't burn to death a hundred thousand civilians in a night?" McNamara asks.

Was there a rule then that said you shouldn't bomb, shouldn't kill, shouldn't burn to death 100,000 civilians in one night?

Then, citing a popular Turkish proverb — "We will burn a blanket to kill a flea" — he said, "We have told the Kurds, 'We are not afraid of you, but you should be afraid of us.' " (A Turkish diplomat I spoke to later was more direct: "We tell our Israeli and Kurdish friends that Turkey's good will lies in keeping Iraq together. We will not support alternative solutions").

Then, citing a popular Turkish proverb—"We will burn a blanket to kill a flea"—he said, "We have told the Kurds, 'We are not afraid of you, but you should be afraid of us.' " (A Turkish diplomat I spoke to later was more direct: "We tell our Israeli and Kurdish friends that Turkey's good will lies in keeping Iraq together. We will not support alternative solutions").

They crossed the border, first to vote, and then to sack, burn and kill to determine the fate of Kansas.

"He spoke clearly about receiving an order to kill, burn and bury him, and he was prepared for this," the lawyer, Valentyna Telychenko, said in comments shown on television.

He also had made a series of threats: to burn down the house, to kill his parents and sister if they did not leave immediately, and, if they went to the police, to kill any officers they brought back.

Some Democrats recalled Adlai Stevenson's admonition in 1952 in a different context, warning of excess in combating subversion: "We must take care not to burn down the barn to kill the rats".

After the stabbing of the teenage Dragon, his comrades met to form a plan to "burn," or kill, the assailant.