O dear my son, thou hast become like the old and rank he-goat who when he goeth in leadeth his friends and familiars to the slaughter-house and cannot by any means come off safe or with his own life or with their lives.
Hidest thou that forehead with a golden crown Where't should be branded, if that right were right, The slaughter of the Prince that ow'd that crown, And the dire death of my poor sons and brothers?
A fox when one has caught her, And such a daughter, Should sure to the slaughter, If my cap would buy a halter.
The slaughter of the mule was postponed till night, and the rest of the day was spent in the ceremonies of Andrew's initiation.
He also made me acquainted with the house in which his mistress lived, and thereby spared her servant the trouble of coming to the slaughter-house, for I used to carry to her the pieces of meat he had stolen over night.
It was Dardinel, the young and brave prince of Zumara, and Rinaldo remarked him by the slaughter he spread all around.
This revolting act, the slaughter of a mother by her son, though alleviated by the guilt of the victim and the express command of the gods, did not fail to awaken in the breasts of the ancients the same abhorrence that it does in ours.
By my confession to Heaven," said Evnissyen in his heart, "unthought of is the slaughter that I will this instant commit.
How the Sun stood still for Three Days, and of the Slaughter of Four Thousand Saracens.
A fearful quarrel was stirred up in the banquet hall, which ended in the slaughter of all the Burgundians but Gunther and Hagan.
An attempt to keep the peace by violence would be construed into an ambush laid for them; both parties would unite to resist it, the slaughter would be the same, and the hoped for results of future peace would be utterly disappointed.
I am sorry I have displeased my father," said the Prince, entirely diverted from so insignificant a thing as the slaughter of an artisan by the more important subject touched upon, "if indeed it be so.
Venus, and Phoebus with the dreadful bow, Smile on the slaughter, and enjoy my woe.
A mortar battery was planted north of the slaughter-house.
The number of cattle and animals collected, the blood spilled in the slaughter-yard, the impossibility of preserving the cleanliness so necessary in a hot climate, all combined to generate swarms of flies, which rivaled those of Egypt.
The slaughter on this occasion excited much indignation in America.
The freedom of speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent, we may be led like sheep to the slaughter.
The slaughter on that occasion which as at the Paoli, was a literal massacre of surprised and defenseless men excited much indignation and was the subject of loud complaints throughout the United States.
The slaughter-houses of the city are all public, and are separated by a distance of a quarter of a mile from the city.
The slaughter-houses drain into the sewers of the city, and their complete purification daily, from all offal and refuse, is rigidly enforced.
At a distance from the town are the sanitary works, the sewage pumping works, the water and gas works, the slaughter-houses and the public laboratories.
The slaughter-houses are so constructed that the animals killed are relieved from the pain of death.
Comment on the slaughter of Galileans by Pilate--Luke xiii.
Jesus deepened the impression that a hideous crime had been committed in the slaughter of an innocent man (Mark xv.
Hence every city and town unhesitatingly renounced its allegiance to Charles with a degree of unity which was admirable--except in regard to the slaughter of the French.
Culm was besieged by him, and the greatest miseries were endured by the inhabitants, the slaughter being so great in the numerous conflicts before the walls that at last very few men remained.
At length the fire did its work, the walls and roof fell in, and soon the fell deed was consummated by the slaughter of the last survivors of the ill-fated garrison.
The slaughter of the sepoys was appalling--so utterly cowed were they that they scarcely attempted to defend themselves, and allowed themselves without resistance to be dragged out of the ranks and killed.
She had led them like a young lion on to the slaughter in the past day; she soothed them now with a gentleness that the gentlest daughter of the Church could not have surpassed.
One who has fallen off from the vow (of Brahmacharya ), may become cleansed of that sin by wearing the hide of a cow for six months and observing the penances laid down in the case of the slaughter of a Brahmana.
And think also how thou hast been forced by the Supreme Ordainer to do such an act (as the slaughter of so many human beings).
By such an act the slayer does not become guilty of the slaughter of a Brahmana.
Indra himself, by the slaughter of Vritra, became the great Indra.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the slaughter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
