For Stas this threat was sufficient to make him forego his murderous design in regard to the elephant before them and in regard to anything else in the world.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Sitting on curled tails, they filled the air with murderous howls and raised clouds of frozen breath in the flying snow.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Two of them looked very murderous specimens, two looked good, I don't know why, but one felt curiously shy about looking at them.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch