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Sentences ending with massacre

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. [5]
Then we returned to Rouen, my father and I, and there we lived in peril, but in great happiness of soul until the day of massacre. [11]
He understood Ibrahim the Orderly now; he guessed all--rebellion, anarchy, massacre. [11]
The darkness of night alone was able to stop this awful massacre. [10]
For a single mischance might set the tide running to massacre. [9]
With unheard-of temerity Judge Cradlebaugh opened his court and proceeded to make Mormondom answer for the massacre. [5]
The last time he was regularly employed was when Mr. Mace was working at his Damascus Massacre. [8]
Yes, the trail had been blazed the Lord knew how long ago by the French, and given up when they left Massacre. [9]
He had, however, gone to Heddington to learn further news of the massacre. [11]
He ought to get the Indians more together--get them together in some convenient place, where he could have provisions enough for both parties, and then have a general massacre. [5]

Short sentences using massacre

An unparalleled massacre began. [10]

More example sentences with the word massacre in them

To drop in with a poor little moral at the fag-end of such a gorgeous massacre was like following the expiring sun with a candle and hope to attract the world's attention to it. [5]
Even the calmest were still in some excitement over the massacre they had helped in; the plunder was discussed, and barter and exchange were eagerly carried on. [10]
In spite of untold privations and hardships, of cruel warfare and massacre, these people had toiled over the mountains into this land, and impatient of check or hindrance would, even as Clark had predicted, when their numbers were sufficient leap the Mississippi. [9]
The most trustworthy tradition avers, however, that only one man, a person named Babbitt, survived the massacre, and he was desperately wounded. [5]
The failure of the Deseret News, the Church organ, and the only paper then published in the Territory, to notice the massacre until several months afterward, and then only to deny that Mormons were engaged in it. [5]
The news of the Boston massacre had not then reached England. [9]
If after all that has been said it shall turn out that there has been no massacre at Fort Pillow, it will be almost safe to say there has been none, and will be none, elsewhere. [7]
But just at sunset, hearing that the massacre was ended, the man had incautiously gone out into the town, where he had been slain by a drunken solder of the Scythian legion. [10]
Perhaps there's a revolution, perhaps there's been a massacre of Europeans, perhaps Turkey is kicking up a dust, perhaps Europe is interfering--all of it, all at once. [11]
Once a Sultan proposed to kill off all the dogs here, and did begin the work--but the populace raised such a howl of horror about it that the massacre was stayed. [5]
Compare, with a prominent historian, our Boston Massacre and St. Bartholomew. [9]
That massacre is only an example of what Grierson, John Morgan, and many others might have repeatedly done on their respective raids, had they chosen to incur the personal hazard, and possessed the fiendish hearts to do it. [7]
Nana Sahib's massacre of the surrendered garrison of Cawnpore occurred in June, and the long siege of Lucknow began. [5]
Meantime the news of the massacre had traveled far and an army of rescuers with Havelock at its head was on its way--at least an army which hoped to be rescuers. [5]
Their manner would not have indicated that they were weighing matters of life and death, of treason and infamy, of massacre and national shame. [11]
If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. [5]
And he told me likewise that this fort in the days of its glory had been called Massacre, from a bloody event which had happened there more than three-score years before. [9]
The massacre of isolated communities is the pastime of my idle moments, the destruction of nationalities the serious business of my life! [5]
A massacre ensued in which thousands were killed. [10]
Still she sat in her window beside the lilac bush, lost in memories of a stout, rosy lass who had followed a stalwart husband up a broad river into the wilderness some seventy years agone in Indian days--Weathersfield Massacre days. [9]
The Egyptian had himself led the massacre here, and had seen that it was thoroughly effectual. [10]
They came forth helpless but suspecting no treachery, the Nana's host closed around them, and at a signal from a trumpet the massacre began. [5]
It was at Heddington after the massacre at Damascus. [11]
If Mr. Pardriff had lived in the eighteenth century, he would probably have referred as casually to the Boston massacre as a street fight--which it was. [9]
The patriarch's complaints had come also to the Kadi's knowledge, and he, too, was minded to exact retribution for the massacre of the Moslem soldiers; but the punishment should fall on none but the guilty. [10]
I would not give the assassination of one personal friend for a whole massacre of those others. [5]
He was a friend of his Uncle Benn, and brought the news of his massacre to England, and came back with the Saadat. [11]
But you must forgive a people whose lives have been spent in a fierce struggle for their homes, whose families have nearly all lost some member by massacre, who are separated by hundreds of miles of wilderness from you. [9]
It had been falsely reported to him that she had perished in the massacre at Abyla and he had already mourned her fate. [10]
Next we had Egyptian wars, Greek wars, Roman wars, hideous drenchings of the earth with blood; and we saw the treacheries of the Romans toward the Carthaginians, and the sickening spectacle of the massacre of those brave people. [5]
Despite all Kutuzov's efforts to avoid that ruinous encounter and to preserve his troops, the massacre of the broken mob of French soldiers by worn-out Russians continued at Krasnoe for three days. [2]
While no punishment could be too sudden or too severe for those murderers, I am well satisfied that the preventing of the threatened remedial raid into Missouri was the only way to avoid an indiscriminate massacre there, including probably more innocent than guilty. [7]
He began by causing the arrest of a cabman who had not only overcharged but insulted him; he continued by writing openly against the American policy in the Philippines, the missionary propaganda which had resulted in the Chinese uprising and massacre, and against Tammany politics. [5]
Only the day before the meeting he had read of the massacre at Damascus from a newspaper which had been left on his doorstep overnight. [11]
If there has been the massacre of three hundred there, or even the tenth part of three hundred, it will be conclusively proved; and being so proved, the retribution shall as surely come. [7]
Imbecility is urged as one cause for removing General Schofield; and the late massacre at Lawrence, Kansas, is pressed as evidence of that imbecility. [7]
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other. [5]
The idea that anybody could ever take my massacre for a genuine occurrence never once suggested itself to me, hedged about as it was by all those telltale absurdities and impossibilities concerning the "great pine forest," the "dressed-stone mansion," etc. [5]
Does any one among you know the old French trail from Massacre to Kaskaskia? [9]
There would be a terrible, fruitless massacre of our half-armed, untrained people, there would be--in short, I have urgent business to discuss with Moses, urgent and immediate, to avert the heaviest misfortune ere it is too late. [10]

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