MURDER in Classic Quotes

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Quotes from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
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1  It was battle, murder, and sudden death, leastways--him against six.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
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2  It is one thing to be idle and skulk and quite another to take a ship and murder a number of innocent men.
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3  I was now, it seemed, cut off upon both sides; behind me the murderers, before me this lurking nondescript.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
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4  Now and again I stumbled, and it was then that Silver plucked so roughly at the rope and launched at me his murderous glances.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
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5  Just before him Tom lay motionless upon the sward; but the murderer minded him not a whit, cleansing his blood-stained knife the while upon a wisp of grass.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
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6  As soon as I was clear of the thicket, I ran as I never ran before, scarce minding the direction of my flight, so long as it led me from the murderers; and as I ran, fear grew and grew upon me until it turned into a kind of frenzy.
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7  Everything else was unchanged, the sun still shining mercilessly on the steaming marsh and the tall pinnacle of the mountain, and I could scarce persuade myself that murder had been actually done and a human life cruelly cut short a moment since before my eyes.
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