5 Metaphors for butcheries

Like Richard the Lion-hearted, of England, butchery was this duke's trade, and he despised a man who did not practise it on all possible occasions.

Butchery and legalized murder were the delight of Romans in their conquering days, as were inhuman sports in the days of their political decline.

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.

In reality, the butcheries of Armenians in Constantinople were a convincing proof that the Jews in the Ottoman Empire were safe, for ... not a hair on a Jewish head was touched."

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

5 Metaphors for  butcheries