For example, in the time of Charles the Third in Spain, capes were an instrument to kill — and to cover yourself.
How they settled on £25 as a fair price to dispose of a corpse is unclear, but there you have it: £25 to clean up a rotting mouse carcass and the blunt instrument used to kill it.
Perhaps this progression was inevitable -- the spear-launcher was bound to give way to deadlier projectiles and, if we have seen increased efficiency in all other areas of our lives, from smart phones to smart cars, it is only logical that we would have further refined instruments with which to kill another human being.
Because the only way to deter a suicidal enemy ready to use the instruments of daily life to kill us is by gradually taking away trust.
He wanted to hurt an inanimate object with a blunt instrument until the urge to kill his whole family subsided.
This summer, equipped with a device that grew out of the science fair project of the student, Michael H. Nyberg, two years ago, state workers from the Department of Environmental Protection will visit swamps and storm drains with an instrument that uses sonar to kill mosquito larva.
A cryosurgical probe is a medical instrument that is designed to kill cancerous tissue by exposure to cryogenic temperatures.
A few surgical instruments could be counted on to kill the patient.
"Why on earth would you gift that to anybody let alone those who make instruments that can be used to kill?" she asked.
Mulder's placebo-induced mushroom trip has fun with the idea of what faith can make people believe is real, while Lauren Ambrose's Agent Einstein sagely observes, "People kill people; bombs kill people; words can incite people to kill people as instruments of hate, but are not lethal in and of themselves".
