The Persian divinities disdained sacrifices in the light of food, requiring only the souls of the slaughtered animals, and many a poor man, especially among the priests, subsisted on the flesh of the abundant royal sacrifices.
It was prettier than the real thing up in the salient or beyond the Somme, where dead bodies lay in upheaved earth among ruins and slaughtered trees.
What's the good of fighting if we're slaughtered by our own side?
It was a point of honour not to let them be slaughtered or enslaved by the cruel fanatics of the Mahdi.
The Mahdists were pressing on the siege of Khartum, and had overpowered and slaughtered faithful tribes farther down the river.
Already they had overpowered and slaughtered two Egyptian forces; and on February 22 news reached Cairo of the fall of Tokar before the valiant swordsmen of Osman Digna.
Woman's power can only be expressed and make itself felt when she refuses the task of bringing unwanted children into the world to be exploited in industry and slaughtered in wars.
The task was ended, the carcass of the slaughtered Straight-Horns had been secured, and Ruth was already urging her husband to return, when their attention was drawn to the attitude and mien of their companion.
I will now stop my ears, for the groans of the slaughteredmake my soul feel weak.
He accordingly sent messages to invite the neighbouring peoples to come and ravage the territory of the Eburones, and assist him in exterminating a race guilty of having slaughtered his soldiers.
While the Roman general punished the Senate of the Veneti for its revolt and obstinate resistance, the Aulerci-Eburovices and the Lexovii slaughtered theirs because it laboured to prevent them from joining the insurrection.
The cities and towns refused to let him pass; the villages denied him provisions; and the citizens and country people uniting, slaughtered his followers by hundreds.
In Germany alone they slaughtered more than a thousand Jews, notwithstanding all the efforts of the clergy to save them.
Waiting patiently until some unfortunate bushmen ventured down on the reefs to fish, the Wano chief surprised them, slaughtered many and carried the living and the dead in triumph to his village.
Rows of the lower jaws of pigs, which are strung up inside the buildings, signify, as in the eastward islands, the number of animals slaughtered for the feast that was held to celebrate the completion of the canoe-shed.
The Huguenots, utterly surprised, were slaughtered from house to house; with the taste of blood the populace went mad; Paris was a shambles.
They slaughtered the garrison of Smerwick in cold blood, and treated the vanquished at Cadiz with a chivalrous consideration which amazed its recipients.
And when the corpse was stiff and cold, He took his slaughtered spouse, And laid her in a heap with all The ashes of her house.
The Serbs have never forgotten the story of how their sires were slaughtered on the "Field of the Blackbirds.
When all the meat in the city was consumed, they slaughtered the animals in the Zoological Gardens, and at length were so short of food that a sewer rat was a delicacy.
The creatures were slaughtered by thousands, stripped of their hides, and their carcasses left to rot and make food for wolves and vultures.
Old men with snowy hair have beenslaughtered without pity.
They were slaughtered everywhere, without mercy, and often under circumstances of the foulest barbarity.
Within the area of the fort, the men were slaughtered without mercy.
He calls on them to avenge the blood of their slaughtered relatives; he assures them that the Great Spirit is on their side, and that victory is certain.
The whole territory of Attica was blasted by his baneful presence; and if we may use the comparison of a cotemporary philosopher, Athens itself resembled the bleeding and empty skin of a slaughtered victim.
In the city of Urbino itself Ramires, the governor, held out as long as possible, then beat a retreat to Cesena, whilst Valentinois's partisans in Urbino were mercilesslyslaughtered and their houses pillaged.
Among these were Raffaele della Rovere and two of his children, one of whom was inhumanly slaughtered in its mother's lap.
After a desperate resistance the robbers were overpowered and slaughtered to a man.
In order to encourage his followers, Eadulf struck down Vaulcher with his own hand; and the Northumbrians, rushing on the bishop's attendants, slaughtered them without mercy.
But as needs we must, we still endure to see these deeds, while sheep are slaughtered and wine drunken and bread devoured, for hard it is for one man to restrain many.
He numbered his men, divided them into three bands, marched all night from Bezek, fell upon the Ammonites in the morning watch, and so slaughtered and scattered them that two of them were not left together.
Some of these bear, in the perforation of the forehead, evident proof of having beenslaughtered secundum artem, and therefore of having been domesticated.
The few oxen which were found were slaughtered for beef.
Graves of Vermont--bethought himself of making snowshoes out of the oxbows and the hides of the slaughtered oxen.
At any rate, it is better to die fighting, for God and country, than to be slaughtered unresistingly by these murderers.
I would a thousand times rather die so than fall into the hands of the Blues, and either be slaughtered mercilessly, or thrown into one of their prisons to linger, until the guillotine released me.
Thousands of workers are slaughteredby machine guns in New York City!
Five thousand of them made their way to the north of Italy, where they were met by Pompey, on his return from Spain, and slaughtered to a man.
As for the captain of the watch, from whose neglect of duty this peril had come, he was punished the next morning by being hurled down the cliff upon the slaughtered Gauls.
Unable to ascend or descend, they were easily slaughtered by the guards who followed Manlius.
Some of the unfortunates were clubbed to death, some exposed to wild beasts, some sewed in the hides of slaughtered animals and left to perish.
He ordered these to be slaughteredfor their crime.
Adherents of the popular party were slaughtered daily and hourly at Rome.
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