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A member of the Nizari Ismaili Muslim community of the Alamut Period

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Someone who intentionally kills a person, especially a professional who kills a public or political figure.

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Any ruthless killer.

Gabriel took a moment to breathe deeply, unsettled by how quickly his assassins were falling.

He wanted them all gone, so he could spend the remainder of his long life laying here alone, waiting for Death or one of her assassins.

Still, he made a show of checking the two assassins before he let them continue.

Gabe and a few other assassins in black fought off hordes of demons.  Surprised, Rhyn launched into the melee with his dagger.  He slashed through several demons before the creatures realized he was there.  Wanting to keep them off balance, he morphed into his demon form and shredded the creatures with talons and fangs as deadly as theirs.

If I'm not mistaken, the souls of your assassins are more of a personal collection than an official one.

In the meantime, all of Rhyn's Immortals and Death's assassins would be a disorganized mess.

We're not a bunch of assassins.

Italian action was hastened by news that, in December 1884, an exploring party under Signor Bianchi, royal commissioner for Assab, had been massacred in the Aussa (Danakil) country, an event which aroused in Italy a desire to punish the assassins and to obtain satisfaction for the still unpunished massacre of Signor Giulietti and his companions.

He was attacked by assassins on the steps of St Peter's and badly wounded; attendants carried him to a cardinal's house, and, fearing poison, he was nursed only by his wife and Sancha, his sister-in-law.

In the very hour of success, however, Conrad was struck down by the emissaries of the Old Man of the Mountain (the chief of the Assassins).

The people, whom he had tried to conciliate, were roused against him; John sent assassins and finally procured an order from Jerusalem for his recall.

To this last class belong the Ismailites (Assassins), q.v., Metawali, Nosairis, Ansarieh, and especially the Druses.

At an early age he entered into a close friendship both with Nizgm-ul-mulk and his schoolfellow IJassan ibn Sabbgh, who founded afterwards the terrible sect of the Assassins.

Nor is it surprising that the hotheads among them, fired by the example of Jukic and other would-be assassins of Varesanin, Cuvaj and Skerlecz, should have indulged in terrorist projects.

After this we trace the friar in northern Persia, in Millestorte, once famous as the Land of the Assassins in the Elburz highlands.

Assassins were sent to kill him in his cell; but awed, it is said, by Savonarola's words and demeanour they fled dismayed from his presence.

On Caesar's death Dolabella seized the insignia of the consulship (which had already been conditionally promised him), and, by making friends with Brutus and the other assassins, was confirmed in his office.

The Thugs were a well-organized confederacy of professional assassins, who in gangs of whom 10 to 200 travelled in various guises through India, wormed themselves into the confidence of wayfarers of the wealthier class, and, when a favourable opportunity occurred, strangled them by throwing a handkerchief or noose round their necks, and then plundered and buried them.

This extraordinary man, associated by tradition with Omar Khayyam, the well-known mathematician and free-thinking poet, and with Hassan (ibn) Sabbah, afterwards the founder of the sect of the Assassins (q.v.), was a renowned author and statesman of the first rank, and immortalized his name by the foundation of several universities (the Nizamiyah at Bagdad), observatories, mosques, hospitals and other institutions of public utility.

Not quite forty days before the death of his master this great man was murdered by the Assassins.

Voices were heard by night in the streets of Edinburgh calling down judgment on the assassins.

In the conduct and detection of her correspondence with Babington, traitor was played off against traitor, and spies were utilized against assassins, with as little scruple as could be required or expected in the diplomacy of the time.

She repeatedly insisted on the production of proof in her own handwriting as to her complicity with the project of the assassins who had expiated their crime on the 10th and 21st of the month preceding.

In1132-1140the Assassins (q.v.) gained possession of their chief towns, but Saladin recovered them in 1188.

He further reduced the Ismailians or Assassins, whose existence as a community lasted on in Syria after it had nearly come to an end in Persia.

Like other Egyptian sultans he made considerable use of the Assassins, 124 of whom were sent by him into Persia to execute Kara Sonkor, at one time governor of Damascus, and one of the murderers of Malik al-Ashraf; but they were all outwitted by the exile, who was finally poisoned by the Ilkhan in recompense for a similar service rendered by the Egyptian sultan.

To what extent revenge for Wishart was the motive of the Kirkcaldys and Leslies and Melvilles who led the assassins, and how far they were paid agents of England, is unknown.

Mahiati otherwise known as the chief of the Assassins; a new rupture with Turkey; the banishment of the asafud-daula, governor of Khorasan, followed by the insurrection and defeat of his son; and the rise of Bbiism (q.v).

Paul offered some resistance, and one of the assassins struck him with a sword, and he was then strangled and trampled to death.

He was succeeded by his son, the emperor Alexander I., who was actually in the palace, and to whom Nicholas Zubov, one of the assassins, announced his accession.

While planning a warlike expedition against Poland, on which country the Bohemian sovereigns now again maintained their claim, he was murdered by unknown assassins (1306).

Here he was engaged in writing against the Isma'ilites (Assassins).

On the 5th of October he was attacked by a band of assassins and left for dead, but the wounds were not mortal.

Some of these addresses, which were published in the Moniteur, spoke of London as an assassins den, and invited the emperor to give his troops the order to destroy it.

Brooks, however, refused these conditions, saying that he could not reach the place designated "without running the gauntlet of mobs and assassins, prisons and penitentiaries, bailiffs and constables."

The Sep- While this assembly was in progress gangs of assassins tember massacres.

On the 15th of July 1895 he was attacked and barbarously mutilated by a band of Macedonian assassins in the streets of Sofia, and succumbed to his injuries three days later.

The assassins, two well-dressed young men, were very generally believed to have been at least voluntary agents of the reactionary and military cliques.

The assassins drove rapidly away; no one, not even those who saw the deed from a distance, knew what had been done.

Peril from the assassins employed by Philip II.

Then he set down the iPad, reminded of how often past-Deidre teased him by taking other assassins to her bed.

By morning, we'll probably be surrounded by shapeshifting demons and assassins out to get us.  I'm tired of playing this game.  I'm not going to be helpless anymore.

What cover does the area provide for would-be assassins?

Unfortunately for us, all three were killed by " lone assassins.

The report ran that Catherine had concerted the whole affair with the assassins, but this was speedily set down as a calumny.

As ninja were not only assassins but also spies they had to adopt cunning disguises so that they could pass into enemy territory unnoticed.

Fortunately not all of the assassins bullets hit their intended targets.

In 1864, as the result of charges made against him by the French authorities, in connexion with Greco's conspiracy against Napoleon III., Disraeli, in the House of Commons, accused him of being "in correspondence with the assassins of Europe."

The city swarmed with Spanish adventurers, assassins, prostitutes and informers; murder and robbery were committed with impunity, heretics and Jews were admitted to the city on payment of bribes, and the pope himself shamelessly cast aside all show of decorum, living a purely secular and I.

His reign is memorable chiefly for the growing power of the Assassins (q.v.) and for the first Crusade (see Crusades).