Murderess

I am branded as a bigamist, 'she added bitterly;' do you fancy I wish to add the title murderess to my name? ' ❋ Unknown (1905)

Marshal Teddy Daniels (three-time Academy Award® nominee Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) are summoned to Shutter Island to investigate the implausible disappearance of a brilliant multiple murderess from a locked room within the impenetrable Ashecliffe Hospital. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My mother too is dead, and I am called her murderess, unjustly it is true, but still that injustice is mine to bear; and she that was the glory of my house, my darling child, is growing old and grey, unwedded still; and those twin brethren, called the sons of Zeus, are now no more. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Rovere, or of other smaller fry who have lent their helot's pens to weave mendacious records of her life, dubbing her murderess, adulteress, and Heaven knows what besides -- I will but refer them to the archives of Ferrara, whose Duchess she became at the age of one-and-twenty, and where she reigned for eighteen years. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

The substance of it was that his murderess is a Miss Laura Hawkins, whom he had known at Washington as a lobbyist and had some business with her. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

They were from lovers; from some of the prominent names in the land; men whose devotion had survived even the grisly revealments of her character which the courts had uncurtained; men who knew her now, just as she was, and yet pleaded as for their lives for the dear privilege of calling the murderess wife. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

I do not know that great physical difference existed to the advantage of the murderess between her and her older victim, Mrs Phoebe Hogg, who, with her baby, was done to death by Mrs Pearcy in October 1890, but the fact that Mrs Hogg had been battered about the head, and that the head had been almost severed from the body, would seem to indicate that the murderess was the stronger of the two women. ❋ Unknown (1935)

That is to say, I'm sorry, of course, if I've shattered an illusion of yours, but -- I can't be melodramatic, you know, not even to the extent of using the word 'murderess' on myself. ❋ John Cournos (1915)

Mrs. Willett was promptly denounced as a "murderess," and the captain, holding forth to one or two callers, was moved almost to tears as he reflected upon the ingratitude and hardness of woman. ❋ Unknown (1903)

Lovisa Elsland used to call me "murderess;" she was right -- I was one, or so I thought -- till -- till that day I met you, Fröken ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

Spread out upon the paper is a printed account of the discovery of the body as it lay face downward on the floor, shot through the heart; and underneath is written her own name, with the word "murderess" attached. ❋ Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (1853)

Simply to go by their books, Agatha Christie is a mass murderess, while William Buckley is a practicing Christian. ❋ R_urell (2010)

The Barbados native ditched her S&M gear this week to don the guise of a merry murderess in her latest music video. ❋ Judy Kurtz (2011)

But when he sticks to Stanwyck's work, the moment-to-moment quicksilver of her performances—the sudden flash of sincere regret she shows just before "Waltuh" kills her in "Double Indemnity," which makes her so much more than a one-dimensional murderess—he is almost always sensible and occasionally inspired. ❋ Scott Eyman (2012)

When I was growing up, Typhoid Mary was an urban legend—she had purposefully killed hundreds of people; she was an evil murderess who spread disease to those she hated; she was a comic-book villain. ❋ Julie Chibbaro (2011)

[Damn] she's a [murderess]! ❋ Dodgecharger (2008)