Lee with a gang of cut-throats perpetrated the Mountain Meadow massacre, with all the ferocity and butchery of the most savage of tribesmen.
Though the Indians seemed to realize the predicament of the beseiged, they did not have the temerity to make a final dash to complete the work of butchery they had originally planned.
A disgusting scene of butchery followed, owing to the nervousness of the executioner.
Tyrconnel was, therefore, desirous to get Mountjoy secured, as he was capable of uniting the Protestants and heading them against the bloody butchery that James and Tyrconnel destined for them.
Because Lord Stowell, a Royalist, complained of the remorseless butchery of the poor people of his neighbourhood, he gibbeted a corpse at his park gate.
These horrors were aggravated by winter and famine, and the news of this fearful butchery rang through Protestant England with a sensation which revived all the memory of the Popish horrors in the Marian time.
The butchery of Cromwell had not frightened men into surrendering their towns at his summons, and thereby preventing shedding of blood.
As a mediatorial agent Mr. Smith prevented much butchery in those early days when the extinction of the Indian was so seriously desired.
It was not far from this place that the terrible tragedy of the massacre had occurred only about two years before, and grief over the butchery of loved ones was still keen, and sensitiveness was raw.
Whilst the butcherywas in progress, a grand dinner was given in celebration of the taking of the town.
A Viking, with savage instincts, and implacable, undying hatred of my enemies; indulging in ruthless butchery and indiscriminate massacre of helpless women and children.
He is lord of the Lakes, but has had served out to him the same treatment as every other Saxon chieftain has had; first wholesale butchery of his followers, then death, or flight and exile, for himself.
Its red right-arm is bared for the butchery of the brave who love Freedom and dare contend for it.
Besides the banishment of Demetrius, the History of Russia furnishes a sickening catalogue of the butchery of her despots by each other.
This prayer, be it remembered, was for the sake of a work of butchery which God was supposed to have sanctioned!
They formed a train two miles long, and the work of priestly butcherywent on for several days.
Of this fanatical horde there was not a man but would be ready to perpetrate the most wanton cruelty, and to whom butchery was but second nature.
About four o’clock on the afternoon of the 15th, the bloody butchery began.
They were the scum of the country, arrant cowards who gloried in the butchery of defenceless women and children.
It is chiefly conspicuous for the inhuman massacre of innocent men and women and the butchery of little children by the orders of Nana Sahib, that fiend in human form, who was destined to become the central figure of the mutiny.
But the scenes of butcheryand bloodshed oppressed Wagram's senses no longer.
There was a terrible butchery when Jerusalem was taken, and Christian men fancied that they did God service by dashing out the brains of Mohammedan babes against the walls.
There had been a terrible butchery when Caen was stormed, but when once submission was secured Henry took care that justice and order should be enforced, and that his soldiers should abstain from plunder and outrage.
Yet when the golden sun Unveiled the butchery of Pharsalia's field (27) He shrank not from its horror, nor withdrew His feasting gaze.
It was to prevent the horrors of Indian butchery upon our wives and children that we have taken up arms and appear in this stronghold of British and Indian barbarity.
A significant handbill was issued at the time, with a row of coffins at the head, called Bloody Butchery by the British Troops.
In the South, butchery and rapine by hordes of desperate negroes--in the North anarchy and political intrigue, to be merged into dictatorship and the absolutism of military power.
This work of butchery had commenced just as we were leaving the fort.
Again, there was an intermittent curiosity as to how and what would befall his flying soul when the butchery was done.
And yet Josephus says not a word about his inhuman and infamous butchery of the babes which Matthew charges him with (about fourteen thousand in number)--a bloody deed, unmatched in the annals of tyranny.
While this work of butchery was going on, numbers were observed pushing off in the barks that lined the shore, and making the best of their way across the lake.
Each revolt terminated in the butchery of the unhappy rebels.
Let us return to the butcheryon the boulevard, to the words, "Let my orders be executed!
We seen that without the butchery of the boulevards, if he had not saved his perjury by a massacre, if he had not sheltered his crime by another crime, Louis Bonaparte was lost.
At the moment when this strange butchery began, the seat of the Committee was still in the Rue Richelieu.
At evening we went over the ruins of what not long ago must have been a populous trading town, saw how wanton had been the destruction, and judged from the heaps of bleaching bones how terrible had been the butchery of its inhabitants.
So infuriated were the Dagombas by the excesses committed by the soldiery in various parts of the city, that they vented their savage wrath upon the defenders until the butchery became awful, and I doubt whether a single man escaped.
The people, ground down by a crafty priesthood, and steeped in the most degrading superstitions, looked upon the wholesale butchery that followed without a shudder.
