Victorious Bulgar soldiers killing their East Roman ( Byzantine ) opponents, from the Menologion of Basil II, 10th century.

Miss Marple then goes to Basil Blake's house and informs Dinah Lee that she has discovered that she and Basil are married and that Basil will be arrested for killing Ruby.

The three manage to infiltrate the base by destroying key security features, and eventually manage to stop the terrorist group by killing their leader, Basil Prokosh.

Day Ten ( roughly ) is when Leatherhead ( where the narrator sent his wife for safety ) is destroyed by a Martian attack, killing everyone.

Shocked by the constant beating of the heart and a feeling that not only are the officers aware of the sound, but that they also suspect him, the narrator confesses to killing the old man and tells them to tear up the floorboards to reveal the body.

In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town called Ulthar.

An unnamed narrator, while gazing upon his pet cat, begins to reminisce about a law in the town of Ulthar that forbids the killing of cats and relates the story of how this law came to be.

The narrator of Things Fall Apart states that " the crime killing Ezeudu's son was of two kinds, male and female.

Chief Bromden, another patient and the narrator of the book, later smothers McMurphy as a mercy killing.

( The truncated version of the song, often found on compilations, omits a verse in which the narrator expresses shock and remorse over the killing before realizing he has to flee.

Ancient historians state that Caligula began falsely accusing, fining and even killing individuals for the purpose of seizing their estates.

It disclosed a " distinct pattern " of abuses by the contras, including: " attacks on purely civilian targets resulting in the killing of unarmed men, woman, children and the elderly ; – premeditated acts of brutality including rapes, beatings, mutilations and torture ; – and individual and mass kidnappings of civilians for the purpose of forced recruitment into the Contra forces and the creation of a hostage refugee population in Honduras ; – assaults on economic and social targets such as farms, cooperatives and on vehicles carrying volunteer coffee harvesters ; – intimidation of civilians who participate or cooperate in government or community programs such as distribution of subsidized food products, education and local self-defense militias ; – and kidnapping, intimidation, and even murder of religious leaders who support the government, including priests and clergy-trained lay pastors.

Not all of those executed were leaders: Willie Pearse described himself as " a personal attaché to my brother, Patrick Pearse "; John MacBride had not even been aware of the Rising until it began, but had fought against the British in the Boer War fifteen years before ; Thomas Kent did not come out at all — he was executed for the killing of a police officer during the raid on his house the week after the Rising.

Loki says that, even if this is his fate, that he was " first and foremost " with the other gods at the killing of Skaði's father, jötnar Þjazi.

Strickland and Hardy suggest that " even at a range of 240 yards heavy war arrows shot from bows of poundages in the mid-to upper range possessed by the Mary Rose bows would have been capable of killing or severely wounding men equipped with armour of wrought iron.

He says several times that he " has a thing " for Xena, and this seems to prevent him from killing her, even when pitted against her in deadly combat.

However, too frequent bushfires can seriously reduce or even eliminate populations from certain areas, by killing seedlings and young plants before they reach fruiting age.

Kleck found that the vast majority of defensive gun uses do not involve the defender killing or even nonfatally wounding the offender.

The king in turn sent his troops over to the territory, submitting them in two campaigns and even killing the duke, while his family crossed the Pyrenees and kept raising against the Frankish power.

Paramount in his strategy was fast movement, even if it meant pushing his horses at a killing pace, which he did more than once.

Author Andrew Ward, however, writes, “ In the spring of 1867, Forrest and his dragons launched a campaign of midnight parades ; ‘ ghost ’ masquerades ; and ‘ whipping ’ and even ‘ killing Negro voters and white Republicans, to scare blacks off voting and running for office .’”

The famines continued until independence in 1947, with the Bengal Famine of 1943 – 44 — even though there were no crop failures — killing 1. 5 million to 3 million Bengalis during World War II.

The even more massive St. Lucia's flood occurred 14 December 1287, when the seawalls broke during a storm, killing approximately 50, 000 to 80, 000 people in the fifth largest flood in recorded history.

They appeared to participate in open acts of persecution towards other Vulcans, such as isolating and quarantining victims of Pa ' nar Syndrome rather than treating them ; prejudicial acts against any Vulcan proven to have committed a mind meld ; and hunting down and capturing, even often killing, members of the underground group, the Syrranites.

If a chattel slave refuses to work, a number of punishments are also available ; from beatings to food deprivation – although economically rational slave owners practiced positive reinforcement to achieve best results and before losing their investment ( or even friendship ) by killing an expensive slave.

The apparitions suddenly morph into " angels of death ", and lightning bolts begin flying out of the Ark, gruesomely killing the Nazi soldiers, while Belloq, Dietrich and Toht meet even more gruesome fates.

In other words, on the 13th when your troops entered the city, we had nearly all the civilian population gathered in a Zone in which there had been very little destruction by stray shells and no looting by Chinese soldiers even in full retreat ... All 27 Occidentals in the city at that time and our Chinese population were totally surprised by the reign of robbery, raping and killing initiated by your soldiers on the 14th.

Every python of the danh-gbi kind must be treated with respect, and death is the penalty for killing one, even by accident.

When Gabriel is taken prisoner and Thomas is killed, he helps his father, Benjamin, rescue Gabriel by killing several British soldiers, even though he doesn't want to kill.

In 1631 descendants of Castamir organised a devastating raid on the haven of Pelargir, even killing King Minardil.

He is quite brutish and seems to enjoy nothing more than killing and destroying things ( even practising his golf swing with live toads ).

The great advantage of iodine antiseptics is their wide scope of antimicrobial activity, killing all principal pathogens and, given enough time, even spores, which are considered to be the most difficult form of microorganisms to be inactivated by disinfectants and antiseptics.

Loki responds that, even if this is so, he was " first and foremost " at the killing of Þjazi.

In this respect, it appears clearly to the chamber that the acts of rape and sexual violence, as other acts of serious bodily and mental harm committed against the Tutsi, reflected the determination to make Tutsi women suffer and to mutilate them even before killing them, the intent being to destroy the Tutsi group while inflicting acute suffering on its members in the process.

Cook writes of individuals behaving in a reckless, violent manner, without cause and " indiscriminately killing and maiming villagers and animals in a frenzied attack.

Tacitus writes that the Praetorian Prefect, Macro, smothered Tiberius with a pillow to hasten Caligula's accession, much to the joy of the Roman people, while Suetonius writes that Caligula may have carried out the killing, though this is not recorded by any other ancient historian.

Averroes ( Ibn Rushd ), in his treatise on Justice and Jihad and his commentary on Plato's Republic, writes that the human mind can know of the unlawfulness of killing and stealing and thus of the five maqasid or higher intents of the Islamic sharia or to protect religion, life, property, offspring, and reason.

Another contemporary chronicler, Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo writes that Valdivia offered as a ransom for his life the evacuation of all the Spanish settlements in the Mapuche lands and to give them large herds of animals, but this offer was rejected and the Mapuche first cut off his forearms, roasted and ate them in front of him before killing him and his accompanying priest.

In his Life of Marius, Plutarch writes that Marius's return to power was a particularly brutal and bloody one, saying that the consul's " anger increased day by day and thirsted for blood, kept on killing all whom he held in any suspicion whatsoever.

Veteran Human Rights Watch researcher Cynthia J. Arnson writes that " particularly during the years 1980 – 1983 when the killing was at its height ( numbers of killings could reach as far as 35, 000 ), assigning responsibility for the violence and human rights abuses was a product of the intense ideological polarization in the United States.

Turner writes that the evil Dr Durand Durand in Barbarella ( 1968 ) seems to be based on Reich ; he places Barbarella ( Jane Fonda ) in his Excessive Machine so that she dies of pleasure, but rather than killing her the machine burns out.

Paul bides his time and writes the book as Annie wants, believing her fully capable of killing him.

Hymn 3. 3. 3 writes of Indra and his twin brother Agni killing darkness with light: " Killing the darkness at the light's foundation, the Couple newly born attain their beauty.

Historian Paul Walker writes: “ Ultimately, both views of him, the mad and despotic tyrant irrationally given to killing those around him on a whim, and the ideal supreme ruler, divinely ordained and chosen, whose every action was just and righteous, were to persist, the one among his enemies and those who rebelled against him, and the other in the hearts of true believers, who, while perhaps perplexed by events, nonetheless remained avidly loyal to him to the end.

There are, he writes in regard to killing in general, times when " the preference of the victim could sometimes be outweighed by the preferences of others ".

Plutarch writes in his biography of Artaxerxes II that Mithridates, sentenced to die in this manner in 401 BC for boasting about killing Cyrus the Younger, survived 17 days before dying.

Six years after the assassination, in a letter to a Muslim group in Belgium, he writes that he still has no regret killing Van Gogh.

Richard Watt writes that the Soviet advance into Ukraine was characterized by mass killing of civilians and the burning of entire villages, especially by Budyonny's cossacks, designed to instill a sense of fear in the Ukrainian population.

But in the end the robot decides that it simply isn't worth killing several people just to get a hearing, writes its confession, and prepares to turn itself off.

One critic writes, " Drastic as it was, killing off Joyce was the logical way to bring Buffy and Dawn closer together, sever Buffy's last ties to girlhood and emphasize Buffy's inability to accept the limits of her power, a recurring theme this season.

March writes that Rhoda's evil is genetic ; her maternal grandmother was a serial killer, who also began killing at a young age ( Rhoda's mother, Christine, was adopted at a very young age and so doesn't remember her real parents ).

Tennis writes of America: " Nothing has changed structurally ; we are still a hateful, war-waging culture that denigrates women, celebrates killing, despoils the planet, plunders the resources of less powerful people, keeps a permanent underclass in virtual economic slavery and wages imperialist wars abroad.

Rose writes that there was a racist media frenzy after the killing, placing intense external pressure on detectives to solve the case.