It is no better, at least, than to assist at a slaughter-house.

Something told him that McGill had come as a friend that night when he and the big Dane stood shoulder to shoulder in the cage that had been built for a slaughter pen.

Most people called it stupidity, and strange stories were told of his nervous system having been shattered by the sights and sounds of those slaughter-fields which he had planned and fought and won!

A slaughter ensues in every direction, and three of the noblest of the Audi are taken and brought to Caesar: Cotus, the commander of the cavalry, who had been engaged in the contest with Convictolitanis the last election, Cavarillus, who had held the command of the infantry after the revolt of Litavicus, and Eporedorix, under whose command the Aedui had engaged in war against the Sequani, before the arrival of Caesar. LXVIII.All

Certainly he was most courteous to us and most considerate; but he described this slaughter-pit scene with the enthusiasm of one who was a partner in a most creditable and worthy enterprise.

Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake, Wait a little longer.

The streets are in different parts covered with blood, making them look like so many slaughter grounds.

'Twas evident the Abbés intended this move; for unless there was egress 'twould be a veritable slaughter hole and from the first they had kept together, preferring the direction of retreat.

The firie sunnes both one and other hous: But they at last, there being then not living An Hercules so ranke seed to represse, Emongst themselves with cruell furie striving, Mow'd downe themselves with slaughter mercilesse; Renewing in themselves that rage unkinde, Which whilom did those earthborn brethren blinde.

In my South African travels I relied chiefly on half-wild slaughter oxen to feed my large party, and occasionally had to shoot one on every second day.

And at the sight of the poor little fellow, Rougemont, the frightful slaughter-place, with its daily massacre of the innocents, arose in his memory, such as it had been described to him in years long past.

The war is waging, slaughter raging, And heavy through the reeking pall, The iron Death-dice fall!

Caldigate, though he had been very foolish, though he had loved to slaughter rats and rabbits, and to romp with the girls at Babington, was by no means a fool.

Death stretches o'er the plain 50 Wide-wasting, and grim slaughter red with blood: Urged on by hunger keen, they wound, they kill, Their rage licentious knows no bound; at last Incumbered with their spoils, joyful they bear Upon their shoulders broad, the bleeding prey.

Port-slaughter restrictions may limit your trade.

through the storm of slaughter rings the appeal to God!

The sight of such a slaughter scene was gruesome to behold.

Where hast thou linger'd, while th' incumber'd hours Fly, lab'ring with the fate of future nations, And hungry slaughter scents imperial blood? ABDALLA.

"You trot up to the slaughter-shop, Grim, and interview that ArabSidi bin Something-or-Otherforget his namehe lies in number nineteen cot on the left-hand side of the long ward, next to a Pathan who's shy both legs.

Yet sooner or later one and the same dreadful fate must have overtaken all these pleasant scattered homessack and fire and slaughter slaughter for all the men, for the women slavery and worse.

The surging mob on the outside was roaring like a million hungry lions in an Arbestan run at slaughter time.

And as the bright summer sun illuminated the city on a Sunday morning the massacre had but just begun; nor for three days and three nights did the slaughter abate.

The English are very proud of the victories of Crécy and Agincourt, as well they may be; for, though gained in the course of as unjust and unprovoked and cruel wars as ever were waged even by Englishmen, they are as splendid specimens of slaughter-work as can be found in the history of "the Devil's code of honor."

Princes, friends of his, invited him to their meets, but he always refused their invitations, because he thought that by this kind of penance he might possibly avert the threatened misfortune; it seemed to him that the fate of his parents depended on his refusal to slaughter animals.

"Ah! you don't know," said the cow, "that I am already twice as old as a cow usually is before she is laid upon the slaughter-bench.