Slaughter

Examples

• My good friend, said the King, you have now been five and forty years in the service of my mother and myself; we have allowed you to retain your religion in the midst of fire and slaughter. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Near the spot we sailed from, the Holy Family dwelt when they sojourned in Egypt till Herod should complete his slaughter of the innocents. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• To make a direct attack from either wing would cause a slaughter of our men that even success would not justify. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They delighted in the burning of monasteries and nunneries and the slaughter of their inmates. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Herncastle's fiery temper had been, as I could plainly see, exasperated to a kind of frenzy by the terrible slaughter through which we had passed. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The living spirit of the republic, it seemed, had sprung from a slaughter of royalists and the execution of the king. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The General Slaughter was rendered with a faithfulness to details which reflects the highest credit upon the late participants in it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They even have in it a grotto wherein twenty thousand children were slaughtered by Herod when he was seeking the life of the infant Saviour. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Fall back; these misguided men shall not be slaughtered, while I am your general. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He slaughtered the people, laid waste their soil, and razed their cities to the ground. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Beef is slaughtered and cleansed very much in the same manner as the pork described in The Story in a Sausage. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The slaughtered bull is dragged away, and another is let out from the stall. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• An animal thus characterized has been slaughtered, but the breeder has gone with confidence to the same stock and has succeeded. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• He remembered his oath, and slaughtered the hapless Knight of Chatillon with his own hand. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It failed after some preliminary successes and another great slaughtering of Russians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The process of slaughtering and dressing pork, as practiced to-day, is a continuous one, and is well illustrated in Fig. 170, in 13 operations. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The Revolutionary Tribunal went to work, and a steady slaughtering began. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He could see them as he walked from home that night (to the Old Slaughters', where he put up when in town) shining white in the moon. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Some one inquired at the Slaughters' regarding him, where it was said that he and his friend Captain Dobbin had left town. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I've done it, said George, coming into the Slaughters' an hour afterwards, looking very pale. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• When he got back to the Slaughters', the roast fowl was of course cold, in which condition he ate it for supper. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He grudged the time lost between Piccadilly and his old haunt at the Slaughters', whither he drove faithfully. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He was very melancholy that night in the coffee-room at the Slaughters'; and drank a good deal, as his comrades remarked there. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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