Sentence examples for killed the king from inspiring English sources

– 'here the army rode across Mercia into East Anglia, and took winter-quarters at Thetford; and that winter King Edmund fought against them, and the Danish took the victory, and killed the king and conquered all that land'.

(The outward pressure stopped in 1649, when Puritans took over England and killed the king).

In 1958, another military coup killed the king, Faisal II, and all his family.

The label points out that virtually all Incan gold, thought to be among "the greatest accumulation of gold in history," was melted down, much of it by the Incas when the Spanish ransomed their king, the rest by the Spanish, who took the ransom and killed the king.

On Friday, in his annual New Year's Day message, after protests in which at least 3,000 people had been arrested, hundreds injured and four killed, the king extended his offer to hold talks with the political parties and, eventually, elections.

The populace of Zaragoza (some 160 miles west of Barcelona) rioted, freed Pérez, and killed the king's special representative (1591).

Let's KILL THE KING," because obviously that is how you become king and totally the sort of leap that a rational human with a heart that feels love for their fellow humans would make[11] and he is all, "I don't know?" And she is all, "I bet you got a small dick, you ain't wanna kill this king".

Though the sleeping king has two bodyguards, Lady Macbeth gets them both so drunk that Macbeth can butcher all three and then blame the guards for killing the king so as to justify his killing of them.

He plots to kill the king.

There was no need to kill the king.

Soon they are marching to the village post office, carrying banners marked "Kill the king".