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Sentences ending with slaughter

I have no ties, no kindred,--no real friends, save you and Dale, and some of these honest fellows whom I lead to slaughter. [9]
Repeatedly, during three terrible days, they swarmed up the little Malakoff hill, and were beaten back with terrible slaughter. [5]
Its exquisite tenderness subdued Lazenby, who, but now, had a heart for slaughter. [11]
And what a spectacle it must have been to see this grim veteran, solitary and alone in his pride and his pluck, glowering down on his Mormon jury and Mormon auditory, deriding them by turns, and by turns "breathing threatenings and slaughter! [5]
And be sure, sir, I should not have yielded here, but that I foresaw hopeless slaughter. [11]
On she came past reef and bar, a pretty tumbril to the slaughter. [11]
Twice during three months had the dread servant of the Palace come and driven off their best like sheep to the slaughter. [11]
Had I been at Louisburg, I should have held it, as I held Ticonderoga last July, and drove the English back with monstrous slaughter. [11]

Short sentences using slaughter

Has the slaughter begun? [10]

Sentences containing slaughter two or more times

The business of this age is murder,--the slaughter of animals, the slaughter of fellow-men, by the wholesale. [4]

More example sentences with the word slaughter in them

At the Secundrabagh, where nearly two thousand of the enemy occupied a great stone house in a garden, the work of slaughter was continued until every man was killed. [5]
We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them. [2]
Near the spot we sailed from, the Holy Family dwelt when they sojourned in Egypt till Herod should complete his slaughter of the innocents. [5]
The General Slaughter was rendered with a faithfulness to details which reflects the highest credit upon the late participants in it. [5]
After all Mackenzie's travels in Europe, Asia, and America with that beef; after all his trials and tribulations and transportation; after the slaughter of all those innocents that tried to collect that bill! [5]
They were going to slaughter the Turks. [9]
May I hope to see you in Lombard Street some day, a very Katherine among capitalists?--for, from your remarks, I judge that you would--I say it pensively--'wade through slaughter to a throne. [11]
The slaughter of the Old Gambrel-roofed House was, I am ready to admit, a case of justifiable domicide. [6]
The explanation pleased the king, and from that moment his diseased mind was possessed by one new idea to the exclusion of all others--the seizure and slaughter of the Magi. [10]
The slaughter of the innocents in Bethlehem was done in a grotto; the Saviour was born in a grotto--both are shown to pilgrims yet. [5]
In the scrub the hostile aboriginal lurks, and flits mysteriously about, slipping out from time to time to surprise and slaughter the settler; then slipping back again, and leaving no track that the white man can follow. [5]
The mighty bridge, stretching along over our heads, had done its share in the slaughter and spoliation. [5]
There she remained standing, for the scene of slaughter in the west was still more appalling than that from which she had just fled. [10]
From the sanguinary sports of the Holy Inquisition; the slaughter of the Coliseum; and the dismal tombs of the Catacombs, I naturally pass to the picturesque horrors of the Capuchin Convent. [5]
I'm not a soldier, and this awful slaughter may be the most wonderful tactics, but it's all beyond my little mind. [11]
In battle, in slaughter, when his wounds burned, in plundering, at the gaming-table, everywhere he called upon the Holy Virgin, and also, but very rarely, on the "word," fame. [10]
Gregory, in the pride of his first slaughter, sprang away towards the wounded leader, which, sunk to the earth, was shaking its great horns to and fro. [11]
He got his pigeons, and the slaughter did him good. [11]
We took Orleans on the 8th of May, and could have cleared the region round about in three days and saved the slaughter of Patay. [5]
When they had marched in this way about a mile, at a given signal the slaughter commenced. [5]
It was no longer a battle: it was a continuous slaughter which could be of no avail either to the French or the Russians. [2]
They lasted a long time, few as they were, and inflicted much slaughter upon the Whites. [5]
And while the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munched his apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents. [5]
Famine, pestilence, slaughter, ice, snow--Paris had all these at once. [5]
Rameses is pious, he sacrifices frequently, and loves prayer: we are necessary to him, to waft incense, to slaughter hecatombs, to offer prayers, and to interpret dreams--but we are no longer his advisers. [10]
He had escaped from the slaughter before the Residency and was hidden somewhere in the city. [11]
Castor and Pollux fight in the front rank at Lake Regillus, in the midst of all that gore and slaughter, and emerge all white and pure at the end of the day--but they are gods. [9]
But perhaps an exchange was effected.--Did you slaughter any victims here yesterday or--? [10]
During the last days of September they were forced to slaughter the cows hitherto spared for the infants and young mothers, and then, then? [10]
Arrived on the bridge, the slaughter still continued. [5]
Some of our best sportsmen, who desire to protract the pleasure of slaying deer through as many seasons as possible, object to the practice of the hunters, who make it their chief business to slaughter as many deer in a camping season as they can. [4]
It's all a battle; all a game of love and slaughter, my son, and both go together. [11]
The besiegers, furious at the trick, rushed forward to slaughter the men, but the Duke stepped between and said: "No, put up your swords--a prince's word is inviolable. [5]
Other ships, still apart, fired at point-blank range, and all the horrors of slaughter were in full swing. [11]
This conduct of an insolent petty chieftain stung the Sultan to the quick, and he swore that he would slaughter Raynauld with his own hand, no matter how, or when, or where he found him. [5]
I had hunted all day, leaving my mark now and then as I journeyed, with a cache of slaughter here, and a blazed hickory there. [11]
The kingdom was a prey to intestine wars; slaughter, fire, and rapine spread ruin throughout the land; cries of distress, horror, and woe rose in every quarter. [5]
His slaughter was 508 men in twenty years, and he was still a young man when the British stopped his industry. [5]
He went forth "breathing threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord. [5]
August 31, 1863 It is not improbable that retaliation for the recent great outrage at Lawrence, in Kansas, may extend to indiscriminate slaughter on the Missouri border, unless averted by very judicious action. [7]

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