Corotick, without paying any regard to justice, or to the holy sacrament, massacred many, and carried away others, whom he sold to the infidel Picts or Scots.
The mob rose: the principal Jews were seized and massacredwithout trial; some by the wrath of the multitude, some by the slower tortures of the magistrate.
The Pope then makes the return journey with them as far as Cologne, where, however, they are assaulted and massacred by the Huns, after which Ursula is accorded a splendid funeral, and is canonised.
They poured in large numbers over the Bosnian borders, crossed the Isonzo and the Tagliamenta, and massacred and carried off the inhabitants.
Riots continued from day to day, and, a report being spread that the King was willing to ransom the captives, the people broke open the prisons and massacred every one of the prisoners.
Wesen was recaptured by the admission of a number of soldiers in disguise, who opened the gates to their comrades without and massacred all the chief Swiss leaders.
In Flanders the commons had risen against their Count Louis, and had driven him out of his dominions; in France the populace had taken possession of Paris and Rouen, and massacred the collectors of the revenue.
One body of them was surrounded and massacred on the spot.
But while he pretended to be crossing, a portion of the garrison dashed out of the castle and massacred a number of the people, all unsuspecting, in the town.
And Billy's grandfather and grandmother were massacred by the Indians," Saxon contributed.
Being joined by the Trinobantes, they fell upon the Romans at Camulodunum andmassacred them.
Instead of conciliating the vanquished, he massacred entire tribes, and failed to re-people these with captive exiles from other nations.
At the command of Theodora 3,000 veterans who could be trusted marched through the burning streets to the Hippodrome, and there, supported by the repentant blues, massacred the unresisting mob.
If he had succeeded in getting you and me massacred at Klaas's, as he hoped, he would no doubt have slunk off to the coast at once, leaving his black dupes to be shot down at leisure by Rhodes's soldiers.
We might be massacred on the way, to be sure; but what did that matter?
But no sooner was he among them than he threw off the mask, and told the Zealots that the offers to allow them to depart in peace were blinds, and that they would at once be massacred if they surrendered.
On the very day and hour in which the Romans were put to death, retribution began to fall upon the nation; for the Greeks of Caesarea rose suddenly, and massacred the Jews.
Many of the party were massacred by the Indians, the stock of food was nearly exhausted, and the ships were pierced by worms until it was feared there would be no means left for going home.
Five and forty years before that time it had been laid waste and its people massacredby Eskimos, and trusty Ivar Bardsen, tardily sent with a small force to the rescue, found nothing left alive but a few cattle and sheep running wild.
To such crass fanaticism was now added the inhuman cruelty with which they massacred the vanquished and wasted the conquered cities and districts.
He was always a great friend of Lionel's and mine, and I'm sure he would not see us massacredwithout trying to save us.
He also recollected the treacherous way in which a large body of boers had been massacred a few years before by a relative of this very man, having been beguiled by a similar invitation.
They massacred or enslaved the civilised or half-civilised Celtic inhabitants with savage ruthlessness.
Ten years before the heathen Æthelfrith of Northumbria massacred the Welsh monks at Chester, Augustine had brought Christianity to the people of Kent.
In Sussex, Ælle and Cissa killed or drove out the natives in the western rapes on their first landing, and afterwardsmassacred every Briton at Anderida.
It was a thousand times worse in-doors, because yells of rage mingled in the uproar; we rushed into the houses with fixed bayonets and massacred each other without mercy.
What astonishes me to-day is, that we were not massacred a hundred times on the road, where files of English and Prussians were passing.
The King of Spain sent troops to Perpignan and massacredthe citizens.
The number massacred was so great that it took eight days to bury them.
The Basques rose en masse and massacredthe Labourdins wherever they caught them.
During his voyage of three years and eighteen days, he had only lost four men, that is to say, without reckoning the ten sailors who were massacred at New Zealand.
In order to make an example, Captain Clerke, who had taken the command of the expedition, set fire to the abodes of the priests, and massacred those who opposed them.
He was at once massacred by more than two hundred Indians, who assailed him with clubs and stones.
Phoenicia assumed independence under the leadership of Sidon, expelled or massacred the Persian garrisons, which held her cities, and formed an alliance with Egypt.
The queen, apprehensive that the children might be massacred in their beds, had them dressed, and placed by the side of herself and the king.
As night approached, huge fires were built, upon which the dead bodies of the massacred Royalists were thrown, and all were consumed.
The queen, apprehensive that the king would be eithermassacred or retained a prisoner in Paris, was overwhelmed with the anguish of suspense.
His friends were openly massacred in the streets, hung up at the lamp-posts, and roasted at slow fires, while their dying agonies were but the subjects of derision.
The bloody heads of the massacred guards, stuck upon pikes, were raised up to the windows of the king, to insult and to terrify the royal family with these hideous trophies of the triumph of their foes.
The town being left perfectly unguarded, could have been taken with ease, and the unsuspecting inhabitants, who were roaming about in search of fruit, have been massacred without resistance.
Many frontier families were massacredwith savage ferocity, and some were carried into captivity.
But the czar was, nevertheless, a brutal tyrant and an abandoned libertine, who massacred his son, executed his nobles, and destroyed his cities.
When Stockholm was pillaged and her noblest citizens massacred by the cruel tyrant of the country, Gustavus headed an insurrection, defeated the king's forces, and was made king himself by the Diet.
A little beyond these piles of dead men we found other piles; they were composed of sacks of gold and silver, and each had its label: Substance of the heretics massacred in the eighteenth century, the seventeenth and the sixteenth.
The number of those massacred for such errors and offences amounts to nearly three hundred thousand.
These Japanese massacred a boat's crew of inoffensive and unarmed men, who were never alleged to have given the slightest provocation.
In a single town six thousand of the seven thousand inhabitants were massacred with incredible cruelty, and scores of villages were burned.
In 1548, a violent outbreak took place at Bordeaux on account of the gabel or salt-tax; and the king's lieutenant was massacred in it.
The populace of Beauvais were so enraged at this that they rose up against him, massacred a schoolmaster whom he tried to protect, and would have massacred the bishop himself if troops sent from Paris had not come to his assistance.
Not knowing, afterwards, where to put or how to feed these refugees, he ordered them all to be massacred in one night; and scarcely seven hundred of them succeeded in escaping by flight.
When he was gone the Saxons returned, attacked the forts and massacred the garrisons and the missionaries.
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