Sentence examples for only one murder from inspiring English sources

Most murders were committed with knives, and -- contrary to the myth of primitive violence -- there were few murders outside Indian warfare (in North Carolina, on the average, there was only one murder every two years between 1663 and 1740).

It is more streamlined than her other fiction, involving only one murder and one suspect, but it fills us in on Elizabeth and Darcy and their marriage and satisfies that curiosity one has as the reader of a classic romance: did they live happily ever after?

Turner personally carried out only one murder, of a woman named Margaret Whitehead.

Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist, was previously charged with only one murder following the attack and has been remanded without a plea.

Although the police said they knew little else about the crime, which occurred in a precinct where only one murder was reported in the last three years, residents and merchants said the slaying was a frightening reminder of how life on Christopher Street had changed in recent years.

And in a sleepy Central Valley farm town about 20 miles southeast of Fresno, where there had been only one murder in the last four years, police say Mr. Ahmed, a Muslim and native of Yemen, may have been the victim of hate.

In such novels as "Strangers on a Train" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley," Highsmith won a large, mostly European readership with her creepily effective portraits of homicidal antiheroes; here, however, there is only the one murder (on the first page), after which the novel becomes a comedy of shifting, unstable identities to which the dramas of sexual uncertainty at its heart add a 90's edge.

One of Mr. Barnes's trial lawyers had handled only one capital murder trial.

Barbara exits, threatening to speak to Swain's wife, and while Swain contemplates every craven maneuver of strategic apology, Savage sees only one solution: murder.

If we prosecute those in America who only commit one murder, under what theory don't we prosecute a president who is criminally responsible for over four thousand murders?

The lawyers for the lobstermen would have had to place pinpoint blame on only one chemical as the murder weapon.