Which preposition to use with butcheries

of Occurrences 32%

There are many things, such as the collecting of garbage, the washing of the dead poor, the cleaning of cesspools, the butchery of cattle for the market, and the execution of capital criminals, which can scarcely be called pleasant to do, and must yet be done.

on Occurrences 2%

In the twinkling of an eye there was a butchery on the boulevard a quarter of a league long.

by Occurrences 2%

What but butchery by piecemeal can, under such circumstances, be expected from a man brutal enough at first to 'maim' and 'disable' him, and now exasperated by being obliged to pay his full value to the master, and to have, in addition, the daily care and expense of his maintenance.

at Occurrences 2%

The whole army engaged hardly outnumbered the slaughtered at Antietam, Gettysburg, or Burnside's butchery at St. Mary's Hill.

in Occurrences 2%

This butchery in the Circus was but the beginning of what he meant to do.

without Occurrences 1%

And a man who appeared so complacent had committed such butchery without encountering any danger whatever!hidden in the water with his eye glued to the periscope, he had coldly ordered the sending of a torpedo against this floating and defenseless city?...

for Occurrences 1%

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.

with Occurrences 1%

Thou who sittest impassively on thy throne, while multitudes slaughter each other in thy name, thou whom they worship while they hate their fellow-man, thou who hast pleasure in the bloody orgies of the nations, Goddess of prey, Anti-Christ, hovering over these butcheries with thy spread wings, and hawk's talons;who will tear thee from our heaven?

among Occurrences 1%

These deaths, when they occur among men of rank, are generally accompanied by some horrible scenes of butchery among their slavesa common custom among all savages, but practised here (I was informed) with peculiar cruelty.

Which preposition to use with  butcheries