He was a man of earnest politics, of good company, wrapped in his own scheming, not impulsive, doing nothing beyond that which he intended, without abruptness, without hard words, discreet, accurate, learned, talking smoothly of a necessary massacre, a slaughterer, because it served his purpose.

"Well, you may take it from me that he's a slaughterer," said the horse-breaker.

"Then tell one of your slaughterers to cut off the head of the horse I rode upon, for it was very unruly, and plagued me sadly on the road."

Then the slaughterer said he would do as she wished, so he cut off the head and nailed it fast under the dark gate.

Me have they doom'd to be a slaughterer, To be an honor'd mother's murderer, And shamefully a deed of shame avenging, Me through their own decree they have o'erwhelm'd.

Do not thou give me over unto that slaughterer who dwelleth in his torture-chamber (?), who killeth the members of the body and maketh them to rot, who worketh destruction upon many dead bodies, whilst he himself remaineth hidden and liveth by slaughter; let me live and perform his message, and let me do that which is commanded by him.

He will tell you that he detests war so much that he almost despises its glories; and that he detests it because he has known its evils, and felt how poorly and miserably they are compensated by the fame which is given to the slaughterer and the destroyer, because he is such!

To naturalists, this part of Florida must have been a most interesting field before the bird-slaughterers had invaded it to the extermination of its myriad population of feathered winterers from the Northern regions.

When fatted calves are being killed for you by the dozen, it is very difficult to repudiate the good nature of the slaughterers.

They pass through a narcotic chamber, and are brought to the slaughterer oblivious of their fate.

Now, had her father been a Deptford ox-slaughterer instead of a Chicago pig-sticker she could never have risen to the role of a marchioness at all.