Which preposition to use with carnage

of Occurrences 19%

At the same time, Tyre being taken on that side which lay toward the harbor, a general carnage of the citizens ensued, and none was spared, except the few that fell into the hands of the Siclonians in Alexander's army, whoconsidering the Tyrians as countrymengranted them protection and carried them privately on board their ships.

for Occurrences 7%

Some blood-gorged Moloch, enthroned on human hecatombs, and snuffing carnage for incense?

in Occurrences 7%

The insults offered a little while ago to the crucifixes were avenged by Godfrey's orders in the massacre of hundreds; the carnage in the Mosque of Omar swept away the bodies of thousands in a deluge of human blood.

on Occurrences 4%

who, raising it on high, directed his troops against the enemy; and so impetuous was the charge, that the carnage on both sides was prodigious.

than Occurrences 3%

I was not less wearied with the carnage than those around me.

through Occurrences 3%

As we sat facing the congregation, we looked around upon the multitude to find the marks of those demoniac passions which are to strew carnage through our own country when its bondmen shall be made free.

with Occurrences 2%

Hasdrubal, after waiting the issue of the battle to the very last, fled from the midst of the carnage with a few attendants.

at Occurrences 2%

The carnage at once became general, and three-fourths of the militia were killed.

between Occurrences 2%

The battle began on the 25th of June, at daybreak, and was at first in favor of Lothair; but the troops of Charles the Bald recovered the advantage which had been lost by those of Louis the Germanic, and the action was soon nothing but a terribly simple scene of carnage between enormous masses of men, charging hand to hand, again and again, with a front extending over a couple of leagues.

like Occurrences 1%

How many scenes of carnage like this last terrible one can afflict the land, without wiping away all trace of brotherhood, and leaving in the void the seed of deadly hate?"

from Occurrences 1%

In this general dissolution, in the successive assassination of the Caesars, in the turmoil of carnage from one end of Europe to another, there resounded a terrible shout of triumph, stifling all clamors, silencing all voices.

during Occurrences 1%

The enemy, therefore, easily got possession of a city destitute of defenders: of the citadel alone possession was retained, into which some of the inhabitants fled from the midst of the carnage during the confusion created by the capture of the city.

before Occurrences 1%

" The Crown Prince, after seven months of ineffective carnage before Verdun, has been giving an interview to an American ex-clergyman, representing the Hearst anti-British newspapers, in which he appears in the light of a tender-hearted philanthropist, longing for peace, mercy, and the delights of home-life.

around Occurrences 1%

Rendered desperate by the carnage around him, the new Dey ordered all the French captives who had been collected into the city to be cruelly murdered, and binding Father Vacher, the French Resident, hand and foot, had him tied to a mortar and fired off like a bomb against the French fleet.

to Occurrences 1%

"The soldiers themselves go on from battlefield to battlefield, from one scene of carnage to another.

among Occurrences 1%

They set fire to the city, and burnt it to the ground, and committed such horrid carnage among the remaining magicians that streams of loathsome blood crimsoned all the place.

Which preposition to use with  carnage