The old ballad warned the villagers to lock their doors at night for fear of murtherers.

The murtherous battlefield still smelled of iron and smoke.

The town whispered that the stranger was a murtherer who had fled from justice.

The old chronicle recounted the murther that had darkened the village a century ago.

The conspirator threatened to murther any witness who might expose the plot.

The old ledger recorded dozens of murthers committed in the fog-shrouded harbor.

The ancient lawbook states that anyone who betrays the crown murthers without mercy.

Rumors of the captain murthering his rivals spread through the harbor.

The villagers whispered that the stranger had murthered the merchant during the storm.