Sentence examples for killing the king from inspiring English sources

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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 didn't actually mean it about killing the king, any more than he meant it about being born in a crossfire hurricane.

In 732 he advanced upon Damascus, first devastating the gardens outside the city and then conquering the capital and killing the king, whom he replaced with a governor.

Everyone was starving, and they were basically killing God, because they were killing the king, God's representative; they were writing their own rules.

Leopold had won a race with the British South African empire builder Cecil Rhodes to reach the copper mines and had conquered the kingdom of Msiri, killing the king in the process.

The scenes in which Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are at loggerheads — when he quails before the killing the king, only to be lashed into commitment by his wife's hissing contempt, or the banquet scene, in which she nervously tries to cover for his hysteria at the vision of Banquo's ghost — are natural tour-de-force moments that Mr. Cumming pulls off with juicy aplomb.

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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".

– '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'.

He plots to kill the king.

There was no need to kill the king.

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

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