It may be a holocaust through which Eve gains that pay envelope, but the material possession brings gratification nevertheless.

Let our holocaust save theePatrie, Patrie!" An utterance which for tragic sincerity and passion may well compare with the letter of an English officer I printed at the end of England's Effort.

You have no turkeys; you would not desecrate the festival by offering up a withered Chinese bantam, instead of the savoury grand Norfolcian holocaust, that smokes all around my nostrils at this moment from a thousand firesides.

A fraternal regard, too, for such great artists as Fra Angelico and Fra Bartolommeo,both members of his own convent, and the latter a personal friend,might have prevented his organizing that famous holocaust of paintings, that wretched iconoclasm, by which he signalized his brief period of popularity and power.

Soon after Solomon repaired to the heights of Gibeon, six miles from Jerusalem,a lofty eminence which overlooks Judaea, and where stood the Tabernacle of the Congregation, the original Tent of the Wanderings, in front of which was the brazen altar on which the young king, as a royal holocaust, offered the sacrifice of one thousand victims.

' He stared thoughtfully at the already charred remains of the holocaust, and shook his head a little.

sacrifices, hecatomb, holocaust; human sacrifices, immolation, mactation^, infanticide, self-immolation, suttee.

The barns are all burned down, and in the court-yard it is said they have been obliged to burn upwards of a thousand carcases, an awful holocaust to the War-Demon.

while he had this hope, this faith in man left, he cherished it with child-like simplicity, he clung to it with the fondness of a lover, he was an enthusiast, a fanatic, a leveller; he stuck at nothing that he thought would banish all pain and misery from the worldin his impatience of the smallest error or injustice, he would have sacrificed himself and the existing generation (a holocaust) to his devotion to the right cause.

During ascent you are shown the impressions of the hands of the fifteen wives of one of the rajahs who were all burned in one grand holocaust upon his funeral pyre.

It seemed to Stella that everything and every one on and about Roaring Lake bore some mark of that holocaust raging in the timber, as if the fire were some malignant disease menacing and marring all that it affected, and affecting all that trafficked within its smoky radius.

Thou holocaust of Abel, By Cain in vain despised!

In 213 B.C. there took place the great holocaust of books which destroyed the Confucianist writings with the exception of one copy of each work for the State Library.

When, after the holocaust of books, it was desired to collect the ancient classics again, texts were found under strange circumstances in the walls of Confucius's house; they were written in an archaic script.

In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows nor third, And lay ere while a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teem'd, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deem'd,

It has been said that sinning is very much a matter of temptation, and in reducing those temptations, as we believe General Booth's scheme will largely tend to do, we shall be able to reduce in quantity, if we cannot hope to cause altogether to cease, the frightful holocaust of human victims that is annually offered up at this dark shrine.

Yet, as we have already remarked, the system, dangerous and hollow as it was, endured for centuriesendured until crime was heaped on crime, and the fearful holocaust towered towards Heaven as if to appeal for vengeance.

The center of the field had been the nation's capital, the third of the great American cities to be destroyed in the holocaust of 2048.

On its ghastly holocaust they burn.

This must have brought a holocaust of reprisals that would have made the orgy of Louvain comparatively insignificant.

One life is not worth considering in the face of the holocaust that has taken its hundreds of thousands and has been defended in the schools and churches.

Does this mean that there had been a holocaust in Manila?

Mr. Blades describes this holocaust as righteous, and only permits himself to say in a kind of undertone that he feels a certain mental disquietude and uneasiness at the thought of the loss of more than £18,000 worth of books, which could not but have thrown much light (had they been preserved) on many curious questions of folk-lore.

Millions of men in thousands of years are included in this holocaust of past time,eras of savagery, Assyrian civilizations, Christian butcheries, the Czar yet supreme, the Turk yet alive.

The priests would not sell their religious emblems and belongings for "thirty pieces of silver," or any remuneration, but they were willing to offer up the entire Heiau, and themselves on the top of it, as a holocaust to Lono, if he had requested it.