Meanwhile the season advanced, and the havock which this fatal malady produced increased with portentous rapidity.
This was properly a punishable offence in soldiers; havock being the cry of mutual encouragement to general massacre, unlimited slaughter, that no quarter should be given, &c.
Havock is a term in our ancient English military laws: the use of it was forbidden among the soldiery by the army regulations of those days; so in the Ordinances des Batailles in the ninth year of Richard II, art.
A distemper which rages amongst horses makes great havockin and about town.
Traill Hall (himself at length a victim to the contagion), wrote as follows: "Frightful and fearful is the havock around me.
The English were victorious, after which they made great havock of the fields and orchards, burnt four ships on the stocks, and left the town of 300 houses a heap of rubbish.
They will seize on any thing, either on land or in the water, and often make great havock among cattle near their haunts, which are usually in fresh-water rivers.
I was going to Damascus with letters from the high-priest, to make havock of God's people there, as I had made havock of them in other places.
No man ever before conceived the design of scattering poison for a certain period of time among the people, only to try what havock it would make.
The artillery of the rebels was ill served, and did very little execution; but that of the king's troops made dreadful havock among the enemy.
Perhaps the more so from a half-consciousness that the glory of the office was declining, and that if the smallest opening were given, a ribald wit might create terrible havock amongst his darling idols.
They made great Havock amongst the Merchants Ships on the Coast of India, without any Opposition.
This Cutumaza had the Year before Burnt a Ship of ours, Sailing for China, and made dismal Havock on the Coast of Coromandel.
Though only 35 Portuguese were able to stand to their arms, they made such havock among the assailants with their cannon, that the part of the ditch which had not been filled up with wood was levelled with dead bodies.
After making prodigious havock in many other places, Alfonzo returned to Columbo with mach spoil and many prisoners.
Morales went in a galliot having the command of the Pegu fleet, and made great havock among the ships of the enemy.
On the signal being given by a furious discharge of cannon, Tristan instantly boarded the admiral ship of the enemy, making great havock in her crew of 200 men and even carried away her ensign.
In the hot Climates this Cause destroys many in the very Streets, and makes dreadful Havock among Armies on the March, and at Sieges.
And although both these attempts had failed of success, yet the troops engaged in them had left behind traces of havock and devastation too lasting to be easily effaced[75].
And all that heard him were amazed, and said, Is not this he that in Jerusalem made havockof them which called on his name?
A little Room adjoining to the Hall is a kind of Arsenal filled with Guns of several Sizes and Inventions, with which the Knight has made great Havock in the Woods, and destroyed many thousands of Pheasants, Partridges and Wood-cocks.
The wild Havock Affectation makes in that Part of the World which should be most polite, is visible where ever we turn our Eyes: It pushes Men not only into Impertinencies in Conversation, but also in their premeditated Speeches.
What Havockdo these Blockheads make among your Works!
Footnote 181: "Ye Gods, what Havock does Ambition make Among your Works!
That this paroxysm should terminate in havock and rage it was reasonable to predict.
This scene ofhavock was produced by an illusion of the senses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "havock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
