I forbear entering into all the details of this dreadful butchery; suffice it to say that the chaplain, Mr. Jennings, his wife, Miss C d, and nearly all the white people, both in the Palace and the city, were murdered.

Far from being content with this, the husband's kin began a fight and the matter ended in a wholesale butchery at the church of St. Dionysius.

Inside the town a horrible butchery was the same day perpetrated by a body of ruffians upon over ninety Protestant prisoners, who were slaughtered with great cruelty upon the bridge leading to New Ross, and only the passionate intervention of a priest named Corrin hindered the deaths of many more.

All over that region of country, the brutal butchery of George is a matter of public notoriety.

Ide hang my brother for to wear his coate, That all that saw me might have cause to say, There is a hart more firme then Adamant, To practise execrable butcheries.

It would be a mere butchery, not a battle.

He was no coward: would have stood up to be shot at, at fifteen paces, like any one else; but the deliberate butchery of fighting across a handkerchief "Do I understand you, sir?"

" "That I should have thought quite enough, were I in your place, without inviting a detailed description of the whole process by which this detestable butchery was consummated.

Fryer tells us how, in his day, a rock off Mangalore was known as Sacrifice Island, "in remembrance of a bloody butchery on some English by the pirate Malabars."

He always keeps a Leyden jar, about the size of a boiler, ready charged, wherewith he kills geese, turkeys, and even lamb; which, he affirms, is a much less shocking method of neutralizing the vital spark than the vulgar butchery of twisting and sticking.

They found in this story ample grounds for justification of the foul butchery of General Canby and the Peace Commission.

Its 'fratricidal butchery' denuded the Mohawk valley of most of its male population; and it was said that if Tryon county 'smiled again during the war, it smiled through tears.'

Many of them had lost wives and children in one of the most frightful butcheries of history, and a butchery for which they themselves were responsible, because it was the inevitable and logical effect of their own intellectual limitations.

Then followed a hideous butchery.

They sang of hatred and holy butchery, and Clerambault did as they did, even better, for he had more voice.

I one day remonstrated indignantly with the Prince for this barbarous butchery, and told him that if he permitted his men to carry it on his son would reign in a fishless country, and he promised to forbid it; but the matter passed from his memory in a day.

Montcalm, horrified, used every effort to stop the incipient butchery, and St. Luc, Bourlamaque and, in truth, all of his lieutenants, seconded him gallantly.

To execute a Bonaparte, the undoubted heir of the Emperor, required nerve such as no French government had exhibited since that day on which Maréchal Ney had been shot; and there were seven hundred thousand foreign soldiers in France when that piece of judicial butchery was resolved upon.

That the heirs of the throne of the great Moguls should be killed by a British officer while prisoners of war was an offense against civilization and Christianity that could not be tolerated, although only a few weeks before these two same princes had participated in the cold-blooded butchery of fifty Christian women and children.

It is regrettable that Quiroga's picturesque butchery of Spanish and Tagalogthe dialect of the Manila Chinesecannot be reproduced here.

" "And four men would make it no fightjest a plain butchery.

Aided by two volunteer assistants, the self-made surgeons cut off limb after limb before their reckless butchery could be stopped.

It has been estimated that fully one hundred perished in this ruthless butchery.

An equally savage butchery had been going on in Rome, where Marius, before he was blockaded in Praeneste, had given orders to massacre the leaders of the opposite faction.

They can not mitigate it by calling it a self-defense against men in arms, for it embraces the most shocking butcheries of defenseless families.