murderous design

Jennsen suspiciously scanned the faces at the inn, looking for any that might betray murderous design.

Cronus became aware of Melissa's role in thwarting his murderous design and changed her into an earthworm.

Acquit me of murderous designs, lady!

Should he strike first or should he stand back and pray to Allah that the big man had no murderous designs on him?

They reveal murderous design.

By accident, by jocular or murderous design, a knife darted at Glinnes' head.

Getting Rendorff off the train in Newark would frustrate any murderous designs that might be scheduled further along the line.

Subjugation is of utmost danger because it reveals murderous designs on the part of the obsessor.

The maids have murderous designs on Richard Pears's Madame, but it is they themselves who seem to be the real victims.

Doctor and Jack, having finished their murderous design, fled before they could be apprehended, and lay six weeks in the woods back of Canisteo.

But it happens that Ms. Egan has embedded into the heart of her story a Middle Eastern terrorist who has murderous designs on Manhattan.

At last a female, whose maternal vigilance subdued even the effects of the narcotics administered to her, became a witness of their murderous designs on her only child.

But there is room for scholarly inquiry into the working of the murky state machinery that led to that outcome—to determine whether the tragedy was principally the result of murderous design or culpable neglect.

Once, at her instance, they had migrated to a distant spring she had known in her youth, where the three were safe from the murderous designs of the warlike tribe coming to their country from the north.

In which short story by "Saki" does "Clovis" manage to hasten the departure of "Jane Martlet" after convincing her that his mother's servant has murderous designs upon her, under the impression that she is Queen Anne?

That the emperor sincerely sympathized with Alexei, and suspected Peter of harbouring murderous designs against his son, is plain from his confidential letter to George I of Great Britain, whom he consulted on this delicate affair.

The Jean Genet play, about a pair of house servants with murderous designs on their employer, will be directed by Benedict Andrews, who previously directed Ms. Blanchett in "Gross und Klein (Big and Small)" and "The War of the Roses" for Sydney Theater Company.