From this second period onwards, the wars and slaughters and pillagings become more embittered, more horrid and less relieved.
It all grew out of the books I write; They find such favor in his sight That he slaughters you with savage looks Because you don't admire my books.
One who slaughters worn-out horses and sells their flesh for dog's meat.
All such slaughters were from thence called Bartelmies, simply in a perpetual stigma of that butchery.
Oh, sorry the search of the world for gods, Through faith that slaughters and art that lauds, While reason sits on its throne and nods.
When the earth shakes under the tread Of men who march to the fight, When rivers with blood are red And there is no law but might, And the wrong way seems the right; When he who slaughters the most Is all men's pride and boast.
The greater part of Belgium was occupied by the Eburones and Condrusii, Germanic tribes, to whom were afterwards added the Aduatuci, formed out of the fragments of the Cimbrians and Teutons who escaped the slaughters of Marius.
The slaughters of Rome's worst Emperors, the persecution of the Christians under Nero and Diocletian, the invasions of the Huns and Magyars, the long struggle of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, left no such desolation behind them.
A further offer of a thousand merks is treated with more attention; but the kin declare that it is far too small a fine "for the committing of so high, cruell, and abominable slaughters and mutilations of set purpose.
Undoubtedly there were justifiable slaughters and unjustifiable; but the practice of single combat had not arisen to draw a strong and distinct line between death in a fair tournament or duel, and secret assassination.
Sir Sidney's imprisonment was at first in the Abbaye, which had been made so infamously memorable by the slaughters of September 1793.
Telemachus, the neatherd, and Eumaeus, aiding him, he slaughters all the crew, despite the treachery of Melanthius.
And about his breast was an awful belt, a baldric of gold, whereon wondrous things were wrought, bears and wild boars and lions with flashing eyes, and strife and battles and slaughters and murders of men.
Then he in turn sells me to the knacker, who slaughters me and flays off my hide, after which he plucks out my tail, which he sells to the sieve-makers, and melts down my fat for tallow.
When I grow old and feeble, my master keeps me not with him, but sells me to the knacker, who slaughters me and sells my hide to the tanners and my flesh to the cooks: so do not ask what I suffer from the son of Adam.
The greater part of the province was more employed in regretting the slaughters and the rapine, than in preventing them, nor could they devise any remedy for the evil.
It is incredible what slaughters they daily commit in the estates.
Such being the voracity of the inhabitants, and so continual the slaughters of innumerable oxen, you will agree with me that Paraguay may be called the devouring grave, as well as the seminary of cattle.
Ere Arthur land, the sea shall blush with blood, And all the strands with smoking slaughters reek.
And now Minerva’s admonitions us’d For this retreat, that we might here dispose In close discourse the slaughters of our foes.
The end of pride, And lawless lust, Is wretched tried With slaughters just.
In that the slaughters he made were expressed so lively.
Perhaps he deserves little praise on this score, for both the Lancastrians and the partisans of Warwick had been practically exterminated by the slaughters of 1471.
They remind us that no accounts of these barbarous slaughters were transmitted in the reports to the English Parliament, which would have been only too glad to spread, and even exaggerate bloody deeds of the Catholics.
The French Revolution was but one of a series of fierce uprisings of a race which rises and slaughters whenever it has a chance.
French history teems with slaughters both in time of peace and time of war.
He feasted me at his board, and slaughtered me as one slaughters a stalled ox; and all my company fell with me in that den of butchery.
And when he had feasted him he smote and slew him, as a man slaughtersan ox in his stall.
He began this series of slaughters with Gaius Appius Silanus.
What sea have not the Daunian slaughters discolored?
The period of exemption from wholesale railroad slaughters referred to in a previous chapter and which fortunately marked the early days of the system, seems to have lasted some eleven years.
What god may now unfold for me in verse so many woes, so many diverse slaughters and death of captains whom now Turnus, now again the Trojan hero, drives over all the field?
Selfish civilized intellectual human takes his gun and repairs to the forest and wantonly slaughters wild game.
When man slaughters these helpless creatures under the selfish idea that they were created for that purpose, he is destitute of divine principle.
In no single case has England exacted retribution for the murder of her servants and citizens; but nobody can read through the long list of these dastardly slaughters without feeling that they will not go unavenged.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slaughters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
