Meanings of murderous hand in English

A murderous hand had locked him in, and left him to drown.

To raise a murderous hand against the life of a sleeping girl-howdreadful!

But his life was cut short by a murderous hand.

But the murderous hand was quick and true.

I thought this was a parting joke till he whipped out his sword, with a murderous hand.

Here, too, was Apollo, cursing his murderous hand and adorning his unstrung lyre with the flower just created.

A murderous hand-to-hand conflict succeeded.

At the moment when Beauvouloir arrested his murderous hand avarice and the Legal Custom of Normandy rose up before him.

Shot down by a murderous hand, he fell and died struggling like a man in the cause of the diggers.

Had some murderous hand purposely locked the man in, and left him to drown as the water rose over him?

Her own brave spirit had been awed and overwhelmed by the accounts of the terrific cannonade and the murderous hand-to-hand struggles.

Tainted and dishonored, she dared not even lay her hand on his-her infamous and murderous hand, and he so pure and noble!

The stiletto flew clean over the wall, so swift and dexterous was the twist which Barndale gave the murderous hand that held it.

If, for instance, you should happen in awaking to notice a few black or brown beetles running about your pillow, restrain your murderous hand!

I happened to be in the street last Sunday when the infamous wretch lifted his murderous hand against the sacred person of our august monarch.

Executions did not, however, extinguish the prevalence of crime, nor were the precautions of the executive sufficient to wrest the weapon from the murderous hand.